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- adjective Extremely
masculinized .
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Examples
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This potentially suggests that the IF males had 'hypermasculinized', along with the strong masculinization of the 40\% CR females.
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We can't depend on the current leadership of the hypermasculinized political culture that Jessica Valenti, Feministing executive editor, describes in the Guardian.
Gloria Feldt: Giffords Tragedy: What's the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service? Gloria Feldt 2011
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We can't depend on the current leadership of the hypermasculinized political culture that Jessica Valenti, Feministing executive editor, describes in the Guardian.
Gloria Feldt: Giffords Tragedy: What's the Message to Young Women Considering Public Service? Gloria Feldt 2011
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Professor Mary Bly, a Shakespeare scholar and bestselling romance author who writes under the penname Eloisa James, analyzed J. R.Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood novels which feature a band of hypermasculinized vampires defending their race against their slayers.
Joanne Rendell: Heaving Bosoms: A Tonic for the Recession? 2009
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It was the high-profile hip hop stars, already hypermasculinized, who could both get away with wearing pink and, also, transform the cultural meaning of the color.
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Psychologist Phillip Atiba Goff has done studies showing that blackness tends to be hypermasculinized while Asian-ness tends to be hyperfeminized.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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