He states, "Homophobia is a central organizing principle of our cultural definition of manhood...It comes out of the depths of manhood: a label of ultimate contempt for anyone who seems sissy, untough, uncool" (Kimmel 24). ... Kimmel states how "the fear of being seen as a sissy dominates the cultural definition of manhood"(Kimmel 25). ...

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" It's a difficult point to argue; in looking around, what's gleaned is how familiar this sounds (or appears) and how it continues to be driven home without obstacle through today's perfunctory media-driven landscape. ... "Cultural ideology tells women that they will not be desirable to, or loved by, men unless they are physically perfect," writes Cortese (Cortese 2008, 59). ...

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