Lucy Miller thinks everything online is deeper than it seems when viewed with a trained, chronically-online eye.

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 ...

You may have seen him walking around campus: jorts and a tattered sweater, watered-down matcha in hand, wired headphones trailing into a tote bag that almost certainly also houses a worn copy of “The ...

On Friday evening, over one hundred students gathered in front of the Student Stores, eagerly awaiting the start of an event that's been popping up at universities across the nation: a performative ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kian Bakhtiari writes about Gen-Z marketing and social impact. Performative males have emerged as the archetypal Gen-Z meme. The ...

(The Hill) — College students are showing up with tote bags, wired ear buds and matcha lattes for a chance to win “performative male” contests that have popped up on campuses around the country. The ...

Even as I write this from the outskirts of West Campus, I can sense a six-foot-something man, decked out in Carhartt and drinking his lavender matcha. But if the description above is no help, let’s ...

Someone out there now owns an 8-inch golden carabiner: the first-place prize for the Performative Masc Lesbian Contest. Although the performative masc lesbian contest has been circulating throughout ...

The breakdown of the “performative male” trend you asked for; revealing how the meme masks deeper anxieties about masculinity ...