{"id":9004,"date":"2009-10-29T01:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T08:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2009-10-29T01:02:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T08:02:31","slug":"two-implications-of-an-elusive-and-tenuous-manhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9004","title":{"rendered":"Two Implications of An &quot;Elusive and Tenuous&quot; Manhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article entitled &#8220;Precarious Manhood,&#8221; which was referred to on a guest post yesterday: ((Vandello, J.A., Bosson, J.K., Cohen, D., Burnaford, R.M. &#038; Weaver, J.R. (2008). Precarious Manhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (6), 1325 \u2013 1339. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cas.usf.edu\/~vandello\/Vandello%20et%20al-Precarious%20Manhood.pdf\">Pdf link<\/a>.))<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If manhood is viewed as elusive and tenuous, two implications are that (a) challenges to men\u2019s manhood will provoke anxiety and threat-related emotions among men and (b) men will often feel compelled to demonstrate their manhood through action, particularly when it has been challenged.<\/p>\n<p>There are undoubtedly many actions that men can perform to bolster their status as \u201creal\u201d men and thus assuage their feelings of gender role stress even if these actions provide only temporary relief from masculinity concerns. For example, men\u00a0 may\u00a0 display\u00a0 manhood\u00a0 by\u00a0 drinking\u00a0 heavily,\u00a0 driving\u00a0 fast, excelling at sports, making lots of money, bragging about their sexual\u00a0 exploits,\u00a0 and\u00a0 fathering\u00a0 many\u00a0children,\u00a0to\u00a0name a\u00a0few.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, across several empirical demonstrations of responses to gender identity threats, men who underwent challenges to their masculinity showed decreased liking for other nonprototypical members of their gender in-group (Schmitt &amp; Branscombe, 2001), projected assumptions of homosexuality onto a male target (Bramel, 1963), sexually harassed a woman (Maass, Cadinu, Guarnieri, &amp; Grasselli, 2003), took stronger levels of electric shock (Holmes, 1971),\u00a0 and\u00a0 overestimated\u00a0 their\u00a0 height\u00a0 and\u00a0 sexual\u00a0 experience (Cheryan, Cameron, Katagiri, &amp; Monin, 2008).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article entitled &#8220;Precarious Manhood,&#8221; which was referred to on a guest post yesterday: ((Vandello, J.A., Bosson, J.K., Cohen, D., Burnaford, R.M. &#038; Weaver, J.R. (2008). Precarious Manhood. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 95 (6), 1325 \u2013 1339. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=9004\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sexism-hurts-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}