Healthy masculinity in the 21st century revolves around the truth that strength is found in openness about our struggles, and that real men ask for help when it’s needed. As it so often is.

The president isn’t a throwback to old-school masculinity. He’s a he-man specifically engineered for our image-based, sensation-saturated times.

Since the presidential campaign shake-up in July, the national conversation about manhood is abuzz with talk of a “new” masculinity, embodied by good, decent men like Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff.

In fact, the 56-year-old transvestite, who goes by his alter ego Claire, has been questioning his own gender identity since he was 12. “I always saw masculinity as optional,” he writes.

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While critics of traditional masculinity called out old school machoness, society stopped short of advancing a more positive, healthy, and purposeful path for men.

Often clad in towering heels and brightly-coloured dresses, the Turner Prize-winning artist Grayson Perry is far from the archetype of traditional masculinity. In fact, the 56-year-old ...