Louise Perry points to a simple diagnostic: watch the angle of people's feet at gatherings. Women talking to women stand at 180 degrees, fully face-to-face, while men default to roughly 120 degrees, shoulder-to-shoulder. The Australian Men's Sheds initiative proved the point — when the government tried to get men to sit in a circle and talk about mental health, nobody opened up. So they handed them a broken lawnmower. Men started sharing marital problems, grief, and loneliness while fixing equipment together, using the task as a kind of emotional bridge.
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