In Literature
- In the wake of laddism, the adolescent Noughties hero of Hard Cash, while making out with a girlfriend-to-be, finds himself "having these unreconstructed male thoughts like – she went to that party cos of me, she owes me".
- "One of Nick Hornby's concerns in Fever Pitch is to represent the way in which the 'new men' of the 1980s and 1990s have to struggle with reconfigured constructions of masculinity...this 'new lad' phenomenon".
Read more about this topic: Lad Culture
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