{"id":9785,"date":"2020-01-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=9785"},"modified":"2020-01-20T19:16:35","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T19:16:35","slug":"masculinity-medium-rare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2020\/01\/22\/masculinity-medium-rare\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2019: Masculinity, Medium Rare"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Sandra Nakagawa and Chloe Hart, <\/span>“Where\u2019s the Beef? How Masculinity Exacerbates Gender Disparities in Health Behaviors,” Socius<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2019<\/span><\/div>\n\n
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Originally published April 17, 2019.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Men are less likely than women to consider becoming vegetarian. And in the United States, where men have higher rates of life-threatening health conditions than women — including uncontrolled high blood pressure<\/a> and heart disease<\/a> — changing eating habits may be important for their health. To learn more about meat and masculinity, Researchers Sandra Nakagawa<\/a> and Chloe Hart<\/a> conducted a study examining how gender identity influences eating habits.
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<\/div>Nakagawa and Hart conducted experiments to test whether a threat to masculinity influences men\u2019s likelihood of eating meat. In one experiment, the researchers told some men their answers from a previous survey fell in the \u201caverage female\u201d range, while others fell into the \u201caverage male\u201d range. For the men who received \u201caverage female\u201d results, the authors expected them to feel like their masculinity was in question.Men who experienced a threat to their masculinity showed more attachment to meat and were more likely to say they needed meat to feel full.<\/span>
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Men who experienced a threat to their masculinity showed more attachment to meat than those who did not experience the threat. They were also more likely to say they needed meat to feel full and were less likely to consider switching to a diet with no meat. This study shows that masculinity does matter for how men maintain their health. Importantly, it is not masculinity itself that is the problem here, but the high standards men feel they must meet — and eat.
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Sandra Nakagawa and Chloe Hart, “Where\u2019s the Beef? How Masculinity Exacerbates Gender Disparities in Health Behaviors,” Socius, 2019 Originally published April 17, 2019. Men are less likely than women to consider becoming vegetarian. And in the United States, where men have higher rates of life-threatening health conditions than women — including uncontrolled high blood pressure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,33,13],"tags":[229,14907,2618,110565,27719,30,37335,11306,37334,27718,37332,1976,25796,96176,105653],"class_list":["post-9785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-gender","category-health","category-inequality","tag-consumption","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-disease","tag-eat","tag-eating","tag-food","tag-gender","tag-gender-inequality","tag-health","tag-heart-disease","tag-inequality","tag-masculinity","tag-meat","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}