date:May 21, 2012
Researchers from four universities conducted experiments in Britain and the US, looking at the connections between metaphors and different types of food. Their findings revealed that meat is considered more masculine than vegetables, and that people generally see meat-eating men as more masculine than vegetarians.
By analysing 23 languages that used gendered pronouns, the researchers also discovered that meat is related to the male gender in most languages.
The authors used their findings to m