Whether we want to admit it or not, the world we live in is different from when 2020 started.
We now live in a world with the coronavirus and there are precautions that should be taken. Wash your hands, don't stand too close to people, sanitize anything and everything you touch, stay home if you can.
Wear a mask.
That's one of those precautions that has taken so much root you notice people without masks more than you do with people wearing them.
I haven't noticed one sex or the other to be more willing to wear a mask, and I certainly haven't heard anyone talking about wearing a mask meaning you have to turn in your man card.
But according to the New York Post, men themselves see masks as a sign of weakness.
The study also found that men are more likely to report feeling negative emotions while wearing a face covering. "Men more than women agree that wearing a face covering is shameful, not cool, a sign of weakness and a stigma; and these gender differences also mediate gender differences intentions to wear a face covering," Capraro and Barcelo wrote. That finding, they said, indicates that interventions to promote men's use of face-coverings work to decrease those emotions.
A study was done by reasearchers from Middlesex University London in the UK and the Mathematical Science Research Institute in Berkeley, Calif.
I personally don't have any shame in my game and am the last one to be embarrased by anything, but I know I am in the minority.
Other surveys have also shown men's relative reluctance to don face coverings to protect against COVID-19: One Gallup/Knight Foundation poll conducted April 14 to 20, for example, found that 29 percent of men said they had "always" worn a mask or cloth face covering outside their home in the past seven days, compared to 44 percent of women.
Now I have to ask the question: are you wearing a mask when you go out? What is about a mask that seems unmanly to some?
