Science: Hair-Braiding Is For Ladies

“A new paper suggests that manhood is a precarious status — and when it’s threatened, men will often become aggressive to re-assert it. In several studies, University of South Florida psychologists had men perform “’feminine’ tasks, and recorded the fallout afterwards. In one experiment, they had some men braid hair (that’s feminine, they said) and others braid rope — that’s more masculine, or gender neutral, they argued. The men were then all given the options of punching a bag or doing a puzzle. Overwhemingly, the hair-braiders chose to punch the bag.”