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BootinUp

(51,031 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:16 PM Sep 2025

"Let's Talk About Biological Realities"

Excerpt from How to save men from performative masculinity by Brad Stulberg

Let’s Talk About Biological Realities
On average men (especially young men) have more testosterone than women. People think testosterone is all about sex drive and physical agression, but more than anything, testosterone is associated with a strong drive for status. Understanding this is key to understanding the crisis of modern masculinity.

https://open.substack.com/pub/bradstulberg/p/how-to-save-men-from-performative

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"Let's Talk About Biological Realities" (Original Post) BootinUp Sep 2025 OP
Oh, the butt-hurt Bros. We must sympathize with them, not. Walleye Sep 2025 #1
I thinks it's a good article on a subject that is BootinUp Sep 2025 #4
This article isn't really about "biological realities" Jilly_in_VA Sep 2025 #2
The excerpt makes the subject clear, I get that you BootinUp Sep 2025 #3
HAHAHAHAH FalloutShelter Sep 2025 #5
Would you like to expand on that or just taunt people? BootinUp Sep 2025 #6
Frankly tired of talking about the crisis in masculinity, FalloutShelter Sep 2025 #7
Understood. Nt BootinUp Sep 2025 #8
oh dear, so many straight young white guys Skittles Sep 2025 #9
It's not the main point. Nt BootinUp Sep 2025 #10
sure it is Skittles Sep 2025 #11
2 things. You are either making assumptions BootinUp Sep 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author Skittles Sep 2025 #13
This is weird then, maybe you are confusing this article with another you read. Cya. BootinUp Sep 2025 #14
the articles are all pretty much the same whine Skittles Sep 2025 #15

Jilly_in_VA

(14,075 posts)
2. This article isn't really about "biological realities"
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:25 PM
Sep 2025

It's about perceptions of what masculine behavior is or should be. Biological realities are something else again. Biological realities are about the role testosterone plays in both men and women. Women, too, have a certain amount ot testosterone different in different women, different at different ages. The article is a bout Social realities.

Skittles

(170,197 posts)
11. sure it is
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 07:50 PM
Sep 2025

young white guys seemed to do just FINE until more opportunities opened for women and POC and now they are struggling - it's no wonder repukes are so desperate to take us back in time

BootinUp

(51,031 posts)
12. 2 things. You are either making assumptions
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 08:10 PM
Sep 2025

about the article linked above or creating paragraphs for it that don’t exist.

And the second, Krugman says that is not what happened (women replacing men).

I get very tired of replying to people who won’t read the link in my ops, hopefully I am not wasting my time replying to one of those. I got better things to do.

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