Tragically, women have gone from being victims of male insecurity to becoming victims of their own insecurity.

From GQ and Men's Health, they have learned to play to male insecurity.

Their encounter is now exposed as a set-up for Renee's arbitrary (and unoriginal) tirade rooting militarism in male sexual insecurity.

After the short stories and a couple of early novels, Ian McEwan goes quickly from describing male insecurity to inspiring it, writes Robert Webb.

A woman, interviewed at a health club, attributes unwanted overtures to male insecurity about women attaining positions of power.

The cause of all this male insecurity, as with so much in modern life, surely lies with the television industry.

The Stetson company also had an advertised special that subtly evoked male insecurity: "The Skyrider men's hat!

But then he started seeing things in the looks that weren't there, and the even more familiar male insecurity burrowed through his rationality.

(The raw misogyny of so much hip-hop faces male insecurity with an exaggerated reaction in the opposite direction.)

The pumped-up mass of male insecurity called Kolinski never used his sexual partner's name.