Word: mens
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None of this surprises Howard Markman, whose book Fighting for Your Marriage represents years of research on couples communication. All the data in the field, Markman declares, run counter to the Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus stereotypes. "When men and women talk in a safe setting," he says, "they find they're more similar than different. Men can be just as intimate and positive as women...
...feelings. But she'd rather see him as a big strong guy than a guy scared of so many things." Her discomfort is similar to that of other women Lake has seen; they find their partner's emotionality unmasculine. "Women have overtly embraced the idea of feeling, nurturing men," says William Pollack, author of Real Boys, "but inside, they still have the same models of men they were brought...
...What men say, though, isn't the only problem--it's how they say it. When these guys finally open the emotional floodgates, the intensity of their expression can be jarring. Compared with women, who typically have explored the subtleties of their inner life from the cradle on, many men are inexperienced at this, express their feelings clumsily and sound to their wives like, well, like babies...
HERO WORSHIP Until now there has been very little research on what kind of images of American men are conveyed by the media to teenage viewers. A new study by the child-advocacy group Children Now reveals that 74% of men portrayed in movies and on television take part in such antisocial behavior as ridiculing, being aggressive or carrying out defiant acts...
BONING UP Don't think you're immune to osteoporosis just because you're a guy. Two million American men have the bone-thinning ailment, and 3 million more may be at risk. Now here's some help: the first major study on men with osteoporosis shows that Fosamax--a nonhormonal drug that helps treat the disease in postmenopausal women--also works in men. The bone density of men who took it increased 7% regardless of their...