But many men think it is:
Betsy Bates Freed and David Freed relay the research along these lines:
In [Kristen W. Springer and Dawne M. Mouzon's] study of about 1,000 65-year-old men, those least likely to follow preventive health-care recommendations were more likely to favor traditional sex-role beliefs, measured by their endorsement of statements like, "A man should always try to project an air of confidence even if he really doesn’t feel confident inside" and, "When a man is feeling pain, he shouldn’t let it show." Not surprisingly, those men were also less healthy.
If traditional men refrain from exposing their physical vulnerabilities in a doctor’s office, it stands to reason that they’d be unwilling to expose their emotional vulnerabilities in a counselor’s office, and that’s exactly what the evidence shows, according to Wade, the professor who heads up the masculinity division at the American Psychological Association.
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