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The Brian Lehrer Show

What Does Masculinity Mean to You?

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

Bryan, Daily News, Media, New, Nyc, Public, York, News, Lerer, Politics, Wnyc, Npr, Arts, News Commentary, Radio

4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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What does masculinity mean to you?

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0:00.0

Brian Ler on WNYC, and for our last 15 minutes or so today, we're going to follow up on something we talked about last last week in a political context, which was Mark Zuckerberg, the head of META, of course, invoking the need for more

0:24.5

masculine energy in corporate America, apparently as a way to suck up to President Trump.

0:31.5

And I said when we did that segment, but what is masculine energy? Maybe we should do a follow-up segment on what that actually means.

0:40.2

He cited aggression, and we're going to replay the clip.

0:42.5

As we open the phones for men and women and non-binary people

0:48.2

on what masculinity feels like to you if you're a man?

0:56.0

What does masculinity feel like to you if you're a man?

1:00.0

212-433 WNYC?

1:04.0

What does it actually mean?

1:06.0

How much is it about aggression or any other traits?

1:10.0

And also if you're a woman, what does femininity mean to you in opposition to or in cooperation

1:19.2

with masculinity?

1:21.2

And I ask also people who are non-binary, even people who are trans, if you kind of were identified as one thing at

1:29.2

birth and thought, no, eventually, I'm really something else because that's how I feel.

1:37.1

What is that? Especially if you're a trans man or somebody identified as a woman at birth

1:43.1

who also feels kind of male and therefore identifies as nine binary, they them.

1:51.5

So you get it?

1:52.7

What is this masculinity if we're talking about, you know, the new bro culture that is rampant to some degree

2:04.9

among young men in the United States who voted for Donald Trump.

2:10.1

What do we mean by masculinity?

2:12.2

What do we mean by femininity?

2:13.9

What is it to you if you're male, female, or binary, or trans? 212, 433, WNYC, 212, 433,

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