HEY

so I leave for japan/thailand/vietnam/laos/cambodia/malaysia/indonesia/korea on Saturday so I made a new blog to post pics & stories & histrionic diary entries so everyone should follow it because I’m not gonna post here anymore

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I BOOKED MY FLIGHT AND BOUGHT AN EXPENSIVE ASS BACKPACK SO I GUESS IM REALLY DOING THIS

I leave on the 30th, have a 21 hour layover in Tokyo to explore, and land in Bangkok 12/2.

IM OFFICIALLY FREAKING OUT

Taco went home with her new family today. I’m dead inside.

A study on masculinity and aggression from the University of South Florida found that innocuous – yet feminine – tasks could produce profound anxiety in men. As part of the study, a group of men were asked to perform a stereotypically feminine act – braiding hair in this case — while a control group braided rope. Following the act, the men were given the option to either solve a puzzle or punch a heavy bag. Not surprisingly, the men who performed the task that threatened their masculinity were far more likely to punch the bag; again, violence serving as a way to reestablish their masculine identity. A follow-up had both groups punch the bag after braiding either hair or rope; the men who braided the hair punched the bag much harder. A third experiment, all the participants braided hair, but were split into two groups: those who got to punch the bag afterwards and those who didn’t. The men who were prevented from punching the bag started to show acute signs of anxiety and distress from not being able to reconfirm their masculinity.