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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever navigated your way through a set of public restrooms, chances are you’ve been confronted with these glyphs: ♀ for female, ♂ for male. Interestingly, these circle-like shapes have ...

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 ...

The Minnesota Vikings are showing support for the team’s two male cheerleaders, Blaize Shiek and Louie Conn, who have faced homophobic and hateful backlash since being announced as members of the 2025 ...

He’s haunted dating apps from the dawn of Tinder, peppering his profile with pics of him cuddling lovable pups or flashing pearly whites while holding someone else’s baby—always swiftly identified as ...

Although researchers have been exploring loneliness as a societal epidemic for decades, the topic of specifically male loneliness has recently become front-page news and ignited vitriolic online ...

President Trump issued an executive order limiting gender definitions on Monday. On his first day back in office on Monday, President Trump issued an executive order declaring that the U.S. government ...

Are young men … OK? That’s a question that seems to be on many a mind these days as conversations about gender, sexuality, and what it means to be a “man” reach a fever pitch in the media and beyond.

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Calling someone a male chauvinist pig offers sweet revenge, a chance to dehumanize ...

You’ve no doubt heard of the “male gaze”—it has, after all, been the backbone of art and entertainment since man first put pen or paint to paper. Conversation around the concept has had a particular ...

An Algerian boxer who was deemed to have male chromosomes won a fight in the 66-kilogram women’s division at the Paris Olympics on Thursday. Imane Khelif defeated Italy’s Angela Carini after Carini ...