A study last month revealed a truth many of us have long suspected: men with “macho” attitudes are more reluctant to seek health care—and as a result experience shorter life expectancy and greater medical problems—than men who hold less traditional views. According to the Rutgers University researchers, men who believed in rigid gender roles (like the idea that women should be homemakers while men work) were 46 percent less likely than their more progressive peers to seek out vital life-saving preventative health care.
Macho Men Die Early: The Destructive Rules of Traditional Masculinity
The good news is that now we have scientific evidence to tell them “Be careful, those ideas might end up killing you one day”.
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