Men are often told to “man up”, which could mean anything from sucking up their pain to forcing back tears and hiding their weaknesses in the deepest, darkest abyss – or far away from prying eyes at least.
This social conditioning not only determines how we view men, however; it seems to also have a hand in lowering the average life expectancy of the masculine gender.
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