Mucho Macho Metro

Test scores show that guys are becoming less masculine. That's why I'm a he-man

Illustration by Tomasz Walenta for TIME

Mucho macho Metro. Test scores show that guys are becoming less masculine. That's why I'm a he-man.

I was 22 when i asked a woman out for the first time. The line I used was "Do you go on dates?" So I was never under the misconception that I am exceedingly masculine.

Because I've lived in cities and worked in the media, and because women who live in cities filled with men who work in the media actually say, "Yes, I do go on dates," my lack of masculinity never caused me much trouble. Then I saw that the July issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior had a British study showing that at the peak of...

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