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Are vegetarian men pansies? And meat-eating men more masculine?

Those are the suggestions of a new study which found a clear association between the way people view rib-and-steak kind of men, versus vegetarian, soy milk kind of guys.

In a study published this week in the Journal of Consumer Research, a team of US researchers examined people's word association between certain foods and the way consumers rate the ‘masculinity' of things like meat versus milk or vegetables.

In an "I Tarzan, you Jane," kind of result, researchers found that people tend to associate meat eaters as more masculine than vegetarians and vegans, both in the US and Britain.

After examining 23 languages that use gendered pronouns, researchers also discovered that meat-related metaphors were also more closely associated to the male gender.

"To the strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing, All-American male, red meat is a strong, traditional, macho, bicep-flexing, All-American food," the authors wrote. "Soy is not. To eat it, they would have to give up a food they saw as strong and powerful like themselves for a food they saw as weak and wimpy."

Meanwhile, in order to soften the tough sell of vegetarian -- and more heart-healthy -- products to men, researchers suggest reshaping soy burgers to make them resemble beef, and giving them grill marks to make them more appealing.

As in very ORGANic (macho)?

I BEG TO DISAGREE that meat-eating males are more masculine! There are several timers winners of body building but the bulk of their meals are not solely depends on meat but soya which is NOT MEAT! As years gone-by who are more healthy, those carnivorous or veggies? Man are just the same as elephant and lions in existence with different sustainance. Who is considered as the strongest and lives longer, is it the elephant or the lion? Please REVIEW your RESEARCH!

what does that make of meat-eating females?  less feminine?  machititas. 

Quote from: islander on May 22, 2012, 10:15:59 AM
what does that make of meat-eating females?  less feminine?  machititas. 

Females are by nature meat-eating... 

Quote from: suban-on on May 22, 2012, 08:22:47 AM
I BEG TO DISAGREE that meat-eating males are more masculine! There are several timers winners of body building but the bulk of their meals are not solely depends on meat but soya which is NOT MEAT! As years gone-by who are more healthy, those carnivorous or veggies? Man are just the same as elephant and lions in existence with different sustainance. Who is considered as the strongest and lives longer, is it the elephant or the lion? Please REVIEW your RESEARCH!

What a passionate response! I like it...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 22, 2012, 11:11:56 AM
Females are by nature meat-eating... 

ah, ha, ha, ha!

Quote from: chicogon on May 21, 2012, 10:49:45 AM
As in very ORGANic (macho)?

Hmmm, organic or orgasmic? Hmmm...delikado lagi ning diperensya....bwahaha!

Quote from: islander on May 22, 2012, 10:15:59 AM
what does that make of meat-eating females?  less feminine?  machititas. 

Nothing wrong with the ladies loving to eat meat, me-thinks. Let the carniphilic females come forward.

Quote from: suban-on on May 22, 2012, 08:22:47 AM
I BEG TO DISAGREE that meat-eating males are more masculine! There are several timers winners of body building but the bulk of their meals are not solely depends on meat but soya which is NOT MEAT! As years gone-by who are more healthy, those carnivorous or veggies? Man are just the same as elephant and lions in existence with different sustainance. Who is considered as the strongest and lives longer, is it the elephant or the lion? Please REVIEW your RESEARCH!

A powerful point, indeed....

Quote from: Lorenzo on May 22, 2012, 11:14:16 AM
Hmmm, organic or orgasmic? Hmmm...delikado lagi ning diperensya....bwahaha!

He he, basin pud origamic ra tawon...

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 21, 2012, 09:01:10 AM

hmmmm....sobrang OA ning tawhana....

Quote from: hubag bohol on May 22, 2012, 11:16:31 AM
He he, basin pud origamic ra tawon...

bwa ha ha ha ha! ah, mao pod mao pod .

Klaro kaajo hilig mo kaon si Manang ug karne. jyati'a....   

She clearly likes her meat fresh, red, and rare...