This study also reveals that different domains of manhood can be regarded as sources of threat. For
example, subordination to women highlights social situations in which a wife/girlfriend or female co-worker is more successful, earns more, or is smarter than the man, and hence becomes threatening because “being a man” seems to depend on being able to show that the man is superior in these areas. Man's socialization into this idealized masculinity teaches him to be completely detached from the feminine, and even to regard femininity in society with a degree of scorn (Miedzian, 1991; Onur & Koyuncu, 2004). And thus it becomes difficult to tolerate the idea of being surpassed by a woman (who is supposed to be subordinate) and this could, in turn, strengthen the idea that
VAW is excusable in order to show the woman “who is boss”
