Performative Males: Is It Just Gender Stereotypes at Play?

Performative Males: Is It Just Gender Stereotypes at Play?

By now, we’ve all heard about the concept of the ‘performative male’ and hopefully have gotten to see the competitions that campuses have about who is the most performative. Clairo, tote bags, and feminist literature are freakishly abundant; the uniform for these events is so obnoxious… and so representative. But what is a performative male? And what does it mean to be one? Well, honestly, I can’t tell you where it first started or who coined th…