Psychology research on men studies, attractiveness, and partner preferences has evolved from the influence of sociobiological perspectives to the role of interactions in shaping election toward sexual–affective relationships and desire toward different kinds of masculinities. However, there is a scientific gap in how language and communicative acts among women influence the kind of partner they feel attracted to and in the reproduction of relationship double standards, like the myth of the “warrior’s rest” where female attractiveness to “bad boys” is encouraged or supported. Some women imitate “the warrior” behavior of men by choosing dominant traditional masculinities (DTM) to have “fun” with and oppressed traditional masculinities (OTM) for “rest” after the “fun” with DTM—choosing an OTM for a stable relationship, but perhaps without passion, while also feeling attraction toward DTM, a response which perpetuates the chauvinist double standard that the feminist movement has condemned when men behave in this sexist way. Through conducting a qualitative study with communicative daily life stories, this article explores, on the one hand, how language and social interaction among women can lead to the reproduction of the DTM role by women and, on the other hand, also how new alternative masculinities (NAM) offer an alternative by explicitly rejecting, through the language of desire, to be the rest for the female warrior, the second fiddle to any woman. This has the potential to become a highly attractive alternative to DTM. Findings provide new knowledge through the analysis of communicative acts and masculinities evidencing the importance of language uses in the reproduction of the double standards in gender relations and to understand how and why these practices are maintained and which kind of language uses can contribute to preventing them. Implications for research and interventions on preventive socialization of gender violence are discussed.

Background: Dialogic Literary Gatherings (DLG) are evidence-based interventions implemented in very diverse educational and health settings. The main elements that make DLG a co-creation intervention and promote health during the COVID-19 crisis lockdown are presented. This study focuses on the case of a DLG that is being promoted by an adult school in the city of Barcelona.Methods: This qualitative study was conducted using a communicative approach. Seven in-depth interviews with participants in the online DLG have been conducted. Five of them are women without higher education ranging from 56 to 85 years old and two are educators of this school.Results: The main results are 2-fold. First, the factors that make DLG a co-creation intervention, such as egalitarian dialogue and dialogical creation of knowledge in the decision-making process, are found. Second, the results show how DLG is contributing to creating a supportive environment that breaks the social isolation of confinement and improving the participants' psychological and social well-being.Conclusions: The findings from this study contribute to generating knowledge about a co-creation process between adult education participants and educators in education and health promotion during the COVID-19 lockdown, which could be replicated in other contexts.

El rol de las masculinidades en la superación de la violencia de género ha sido estudiado en diferentes investigaciones. Sin embargo, el papel de las nuevas masculinidades en la superación de la violencia desde una perspectiva intercultural no ha sido tratado en profundidad. Este artículo presenta el estado actual de los estudios sobre las nuevas masculinidades, con el objetivo de aclarar qué modelos de masculinidad ofrecen posibilidades interétnicas para la superación de la violencia. Para ello, se ha realizado una revisión de la literatura científica en bases de datos internacionales de referencia. En primer lugar, se presenta la dicotomía entre el modelo hegemónico de masculinidades que perpetúa la violencia y la desigualdad, pero es socialmente atractivo, frente a los modelos de masculinidad que han logrado grandes cambios en términos de superación de la desigualdad, pero sin atractivo. En la segunda sección, se describe cómo el nuevo modelo de masculinidad alternativa combina la ética y el deseo, superando así el doble estándar entre ambos. Esto representa posibilidades para los hombres que quieren contribuir a la superación de la violencia de género participando en relaciones más igualitarias que unen la ética y la pasión.  Se presentan estudios interétnicos que se basan en este nuevo modelo de masculinidad alternativa y que además rompe con la hegemonía blanca, rompiendo así los prejuicios racistas y ofreciendo aún más posibilidades desde esta diversidad cultural

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