Why is it always young men? Is testosterone poisoning a problem?

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85. "males associate aggression with success"

Well, one of the big perks of "success" is generally the approval of women. So if males are associating anything with success, it is probably because they have lots of females cheering them on.

Among my dogs though, I seem to have a young female who is competing with her father to be the alpha male. She whales on her much bigger mother and goes at it with her dad, who is also bigger. With my other two dogs though, the mother seemed to defer to her son even though she was much larger. She was about 70 pounds to his 35. It was funny sometimes to see her trotting down the road and he would slam into her at full speed, bounce off and she was not even deflected, still trotting down the road. But every time they mixed it up, it seemed like she was the one to back down. Maybe the younger generation has more drive and more energy. I sorta saw it as a mother's love, letting her son win, but I may have been anthromophizing.