Gender Roles and Precarious Manhood
http://www.ts-si.org/relationships/29800-gender-roles-and-precarious-manhood5/3/11
Manhood is a "precarious" status — difficult to earn and easy to lose. And when it's threatened, men see aggression as a good way to hold onto it.
"Gender is social," says Jennifer Bosson. "Men know this. They are powerfully concerned about how they appear in other people's eyes." And the more concerned they are, the more they will suffer psychologically when their manhood feels violated.
Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A. Vandello are psychologists at the University of South Florida (USF). Their findings appear in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science.
