Word: machos
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...other comes naturally. Lines such as "The greatest happiness in my life is to be with you" sound as if they were lifted from his 1996 feel-good romancer Comrade: Almost a Love Story. (Lai tells TIME that he relished the chance to at least try on a more macho role: "It is easier and more interesting to play an [action hero] than to play the same role over and over again...
...between the car chases and gunplay, Chan lays in plenty of the good-natured banter and macho high jinks that are standard issue in buddy-cop pictures from Hong Kong to Hollywood. At one point, Ekin Cheng banishes a junior officer to the inside of a huge fish tank, where the underling must count the number and variety of each fish?while wearing only underwear...
LIFE magazine got hold of the story, and for a brief moment, a few of the women--the media dubbed them "astronettes"--sparkled as minor celebrities. But the macho culture of the space program was too entrenched to accommodate them. Vice President Lyndon Johnson scribbled on a memo about the initiative, "Let's stop this now!"--and without much fanfare, it was stopped. The quest to put an American woman in space devolved into bureaucratic infighting and congressional subcommittee meetings, complete with cameos by John Glenn and Scott Carpenter and predictable old-boy jokes about the need for women...
These reasons alone would certainly contribute to a shorter life span for men, but the problem may be even more profound. Williams blames deep-seated cultural beliefs--a "macho" world view that rewards men for taking risks and tackling danger head on. Men are twice as likely to get hit by lightning or die in a flash flood, according to a report delivered last week in Atlanta at a meeting sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In low-lying flood zones, says Thomas Songer of the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health, men are more likely...
...That macho attitude seems to extend to the care men take of their bodies. Women are twice as likely as men to visit their doctor once a year and more likely to explore broad-based preventive health plans with their physician. Men are less likely to schedule checkups or to follow up when symptoms arise. "Men also tend to internalize" and "self-medicate" their psychological problems, says Williams, while women tend to seek professional help. Virtually all stress-related diseases--from hypertension to heart disease--are more common...