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The best parts of Conley's book are about deep, institutional resistance to change: the way that otherwise admirable male professors understandably draw on their training of 20 years ago, which assumed the 70 kilogram male body as the human norm and left them totally ignorant of female health problems; the way training in elite specialties like neurosurgery still promotes a specific kind of cowboy bravado, which encourages women to bail out for gynecology.
A dispatch from the porn industry's annual awards ceremony entertainingly and comically explains the modern porn ethos: bravado, shamelessness, and (believe it or not) increasing degradation of and violence toward women.
I'm responding not only to the director's generous wit but also to his bravado.
Bored Americans seeking the stimulation of endangerment are participating in more adventure sports, sinking more money into highly speculative stocks, and changing jobs with greater bravado than ever before because traditional risks have been minimized by medicine and government regulation.
Having experienced war firsthand, McCain respects prudence more than bravado.