It's a simple schoolyard insult. For eons, people — often men — hurled "mama's boy" at each other as an emasculating put-down. To be called the son of a mother suggested an essential unmanliness.

A woman on TikTok denounced “baby mama” culture, keeping it a buck with viewers about how being a baby mama shouldn’t be a flex. A’Yana L., a master’s degree holder and U.S. Veteran, posted a video of ...

It's a simple schoolyard insult. But a new generation of men seems to be rejecting the toxic masculinity inherent in the phrase and radically reinventing it. "I am a proud mama's boy," declares Sahil ...