"Sports fanship has been a way of young men picking out an appropriate masculine role and trying it on," Givant said.

"It's a very masculine role, not something foppish and jokey."

When it comes to romance, many women do like men to take a traditional masculine role.

And, too, she did not want to have to play her masculine role while she watched Quinton dance with other women.

In Wollstonecraft's version, there would be strong, but separate, masculine and feminine roles for citizens.

He is often cast in very physical or masculine roles.

Other posters demanded that the school stick to prescribed masculine and feminine roles.

Scholars make note that the woman takes on the masculine role of breadwinner, making her the man in the relationship.

Carlos wants his aunt to step in, but she insists that this is a masculine role.

By adopting the masculine role, she appears to be an empowered individual, particularly in the bedroom scene.