This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...
On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he would impose the “highest” male standards for all combat roles in the U.S. military during his Tuesday morning speech to hundreds of generals and admirals ...
College students are showing up with tote bags, wired ear buds and matcha lattes for a chance to win “performative male” contests that have popped up on campuses around the country. The goal in these ...
An unread novel plucked from the feminist canon, a Labubu dangling from a tote bag, and an oat milk matcha — spot them all, and you may have encountered an archetypal "performative male", said Ellie ...
Living in Los Angeles, I see performative males everywhere: strolling through Silver Lake with a $9 matcha in one hand and an overpriced tote bag of unread books in the other, wired headphones ...
The Minnesota Vikings' new male cheerleaders joined two of their female colleagues in a social media video that was filmed in a bathroom. The video, which was originally uploaded to TikTok by Vikings ...
The 2025 NFL season is set to kick off in September, but social media is already full of discourse before the first game has been played amid a backlash over the presence of male cheerleaders. Male ...
NFL teams have defended the use of male cheerleaders following a backlash after 12 franchises signed up performers for the 2025 season. Since the first team brought in a male cheerleader for the 2018 ...