[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Hold muh beer...

[OCCASparky]

Better to die on one's feet than live on one's knees.

Figuratively and literally.

[Doctor 2Brains]

This is news? I’ve been reading about this phenomenon for something like 30 years, and it was covered pretty well in “Outliers”.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[SJSAMPLE]

They also build nations, win wars and create a culture that makes things, instead of one that lays back and takes them.

[dfwgator]

Remembering the old Richard Pryor routine:

“I’m MACHO MAN....I’ll take that knife and shove it up your a$$.”

You’ll go very quickly from “Macho Man” to “Dead Person.”

[The Sons of Liberty]

So Alexander and MSNBC want everyone to be a Mr Sissypants like their boys Hussein 0bama and Chrissy Matthews? Hell no! I rather be a REAL man and die young, than to be a coward and live forever!

[mamelukesabre]

The three authors, all from the University of Oklahoma, found that states with a “culture of honor” –- in the South, and the West, mainly — also have higher rates of accidental death for white males
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Why is this honor culture limited to white males?

[usurper]

Well nobody at MSNBC has ever been accoused of defense of masculine reputation.

[Bigg Red]

...as any regular viewer of Comedy Central’s “Tosh 2.0” can tell you....

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Boy, that is some impressive reference source, huh?

[SIDENET]

Macho guys more likely to get killed

Without jumping into a discussion of "alpha" vs "beta" males, I'd like to point out that those so-called "macho" males also are probably far more likely to pass along their genetic material.

Even if some beta chump gets to raise the offspring.

[Maverick68]

bump

[Psalm 144]

We will have a return to courtesy when we return to the code duello.

[Condor51]

Brian Alexander
'Deadly honor? Macho guys more likely to get killed'

Brian, that's something you will never happen to worry about.

By the way, nice hair Brian.
Sissy.

[Darren McCarty]

Nothing new here. Celts are a little more rough around the edges. Us Micks have been fighting Ulster Scots for 1000 years....and have a beer with them and tell stories afterward.

[Darren McCarty]

Nothing new here. Celts are a little more rough around the edges. Us Micks have been fighting Ulster Scots for 1000 years....and have a beer with them and tell stories afterward. It toughens us all up.

[I Shall Endure]

Mining. Forestry. Agriculture. Commercial Fishing. These are the jobs that have high rates of accidental death. In what states are these jobs located, for the most part?

[martin_fierro]

So what’s a “culture of honor”? “The relentless, and sometimes violent, defense of masculine reputation,” according to the study.
“This is an adaptation to what the Ulster Scots [also called the Scots-Irish] experienced over 800 or 900 years in southern Scotland,” one of the study’s authors, Ryan P. Brown, explained. “That’s a breeding ground for the types of dynamics we are looking at.”

[catfish1957]

I do alot of genealogy, and found that I am about an 1/8 to 1/4 Scotch Irish (Ulster Scot). I will tell you that a much higher percentage of this group fought in CW, War of 1812, and RW than other parts of my family.

[Walkingfeather]

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,even though checkered with failure, than to take the rank with those poor spirits, who neither enjoyed much, nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat......... Theodore Roosevelt

[elteemike]

As a descendant of Scots-Irish immigrants, I understand why the author might conclude as he does if he looks at no other ethnic groups...But certainly there is plenty of machismo to go around?

Can’t say I agree with his conclusions; there are many other factors involved...Demonstrating a relationship is not the same thing as establishing cause...

A very good book on the subject of the Scots-Irish is “Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America” by james Webb...Interesting reading...