Not my experience

[firecat]

http://healthland.time.com/2011/05/05/masculinity-a-delicate-flower/ (emphasis mine)

...manhood is a social status, something a guy earned historically, through brutal tests of physical endurance or other risky demonstrations of toughness that mark the transition from boyhood to manhood. But while that masculinity is hard-won, it can be easily lost.

Once earned, men have to continue proving their worth through manly action....

The phenomenon helps explain why men are so touchy about their masculinity. Women don't have the same problem, of course. Womanhood is largely seen as something innate, immutable: girls become women through puberty; once achieved, womanhood sticks.

This is not my experience. Is it yours?

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[kaigou]

First, no.

Second, puberty was the worst weekend of my life. If that wasn't a trial by fire and a brutal test of physical (and emotional and psychological) endurance AND a risky demonstration of toughness all rolled into one, I don't know what is.

Also, in case I wasn't clear: so very totally no.