From: ABC News
Guys Have to Earn Their Status
May 12, 2011
ABC News:
Me Tarzan. You Jane.
Well, not necessarily, although the ape man was doing what comes naturally when he asserted his manhood on the lady from England. There are biological, as well as social, reasons why a man has to prove his manliness, and a woman does not.
And a new effort to explain that difference between the genders concludes that the rights of passage for males at least partly explains why men are more aggressive than women. Manhood, according to psychologists Jennifer K. Bosson and Joseph A. Vandello of the University of South Florida, is a “status that is elusive (it must be earned) and tenuous (it must be demonstrated repeatedly through actions.)”
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