Men who talk about health live longer lives, and it’s not a coincidence. For decades, cultural norms have conditioned men to stay silent about their physical and emotional struggles. But recent ...
Re “Why are the men around me doing all the talking?” by Judy Kugel (Ideas, March 22): When I attended Emerson College in the ’70s, we read communications studies that showed that despite the ...
A recent survey found that men feel much more comfortable talking about their physical health than their mental health. This survey overlaps with other research indicating that men are much less ...
I’m going to start with that much-maligned phrase of the 2010s before I take aim at male conversational skills: #notallmen. Not all men don’t know how to hold a proper conversation. Not all men spend ...
Judy Kugel blogs twice weekly at 80-something.com and is the author of “70-Something: Life, Love and Limits in the Bonus Years.” In the senior (ages 62 and up) community where I live, about two-thirds ...