"Let's Talk About Biological Realities"
Excerpt from How to save men from performative masculinity by Brad Stulberg
Lets 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
Walleye
(45,484 posts)Cursed with too much testosterone, well guys just cope
BootinUp
(51,645 posts)usually dealt with in a half-assed manner.
Jilly_in_VA
(14,624 posts)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.
BootinUp
(51,645 posts)would title the thread differently.
FalloutShelter
(14,631 posts)Try estrogen wimps.
BootinUp
(51,645 posts)FalloutShelter
(14,631 posts)When women are being denied reproductive care.
BootinUp
(51,645 posts)Skittles
(172,892 posts)just cannot handle not being the center of the universe
BootinUp
(51,645 posts)Skittles
(172,892 posts)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
(51,645 posts)about the article linked above or creating paragraphs for it that dont exist.
And the second, Krugman says that is not what happened (women replacing men).
I get very tired of replying to people who wont 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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BootinUp
(51,645 posts)Skittles
(172,892 posts)it is getting very tiresome
over and OUT
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