TikTok has become the go-to place for decoding modern masculinity, and the latest term doing the rounds? The 'performative male'. From stitched videos to viral commentaries, users are calling out a ...

Occasionally on Saturday mornings, I grab my tote bag and wander down to my local independent coffee shop in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, to order an iced latte and sit outside and read. This ...

Whether you’re scrolling on your TikTok For You page or walking down Trousdale, he’s inevitably going to cross your path: a man wearing the baggiest jeans you’ve ever seen, holding a matcha in one ...

Across TikTok and university campuses, young men are rewriting what masculinity looks like today, sometimes with matcha lattes, Labubus, film cameras and thrifted tote bags. Subscribe to our ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Regardless of the form in which he manifests, the performative male cares less about genuine personal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These are men who go to great (and often cringe-worthy) lengths to signal how sensitive, intellectual and emotionally attuned they ...

Teens are using the phrase “performative male” to call out boys who act a certain way to win approval from girls. These labels can make boys feel confused or ashamed about their identity and relation ...

What makes a man ‘performative’? A look at TikTok’s new soft-boy stereotype and the fine line between preference and performance. This trend is essentially about men creating a soft, ethereal ...

One young man gave away free menstrual products. One unfurled a banner with a demand to “end period cramps.” Another did a card trick and turned the king of spades into the queen of hearts. “It turns ...

For those uninitiated, who are living in a much better world than I and don’t know what a performative male is, they are the guys you see wearing baggy clothes, drinking matcha, listening to Clairo or ...

Matcha, vinyls, labubus and even electric guitars gathered on M.A.C. Avenue on Wednesday at 4 p.m. These wired earbud clad competitors had all come to Howland Co-op hoping to be deemed “Most ...