Men’s Attitudes to Aging: Threatened, Performed, and Negotiated Masculinity
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Like feminist research, which for a long time neglected the situation of older women, most of the research on masculinity has ignored the experiences of older men. The research in this area is scant, especially in the francophone world, as several researchers have pointed out. We were interested in gaining a comprehensive understanding of what aging means for men aged 65 and over, and how they experience aging in their day-to-day lives. Since we wanted to allow the older men to express themselves on their experience of aging, we opted for a qualitative approach, specifically semi-structured interviews. In this article, we propose to show that aging affects how men relate to masculinity, compelling them to redefine its contours. This article describes the challenges aging represents for men over 65 in relation to what they consider their “masculinity,” paying particular attention to their experiences of retirement and deteriorating physical appearance and strength. We show that their experience and interpretation of aging is one of jeopardized masculinity, which causes them to perform and negotiate masculinity as a way of adapting to getting old. Keyword: masculinity, aging, older man, performance, negotiation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".