They take control. Those are manly things to do. A woman gets on top of the roof, for example, to fix something and the husband says he'll do it because he doesn't want her to fall off. It doesn't mean that he necessarily thinks that she's a klutz. I think the man's concern is that if somebody has got to take the risk it should be the husband who takes the physical risk because it's his job to protect his wife.
Men go to war.
They risk and experience tremendous privation. But there is something invigorating about privation. I felt it while I was in Thailand. It's very hard for me to describe except to say that bearing the responsibility of feeding 18,000 Cambodian refugees that were dependent on me had the effect of stripping life to its bare essentials. You experience the very edge of life.