In a psychology experiment,two groups of men are invited to watch films.The first group watches a romantic comedy while the second group watches an action film.After the screening,dinner is served to each group.There is a choice of steak or salad,and the men who watched the romantic comedy were twice as likely to choose a steak.What type of masculinity were these men enacting?

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The men who watched the romantic comedy might have felt that their choice of film was not traditionally masculine, so they chose steak—a food often associated with masculinity—to compensate for this perceived lack of masculinity, thus enacting compensatory masculinity.

In a Psychology Experiment,two Groups of Men Are Invited to Watch