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BootinUp

(50,669 posts)
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:16 PM Sep 27

"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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Walleye

(43,372 posts)
1. Oh, the butt-hurt Bros. We must sympathize with them, not.
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:21 PM
Sep 27

Cursed with too much testosterone, well guys just cope

BootinUp

(50,669 posts)
4. I thinks it's a good article on a subject that is
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:30 PM
Sep 27

usually dealt with in a half-assed manner.

Jilly_in_VA

(13,600 posts)
2. This article isn't really about "biological realities"
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:25 PM
Sep 27

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.

FalloutShelter

(14,029 posts)
7. Frankly tired of talking about the crisis in masculinity,
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 12:55 PM
Sep 27

When women are being denied reproductive care.

Skittles

(168,754 posts)
9. oh dear, so many straight young white guys
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 06:43 PM
Sep 27

just cannot handle not being the center of the universe

Skittles

(168,754 posts)
11. sure it is
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 07:50 PM
Sep 27

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

(50,669 posts)
12. 2 things. You are either making assumptions
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 08:10 PM
Sep 27

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.

Response to BootinUp (Reply #12)

Skittles

(168,754 posts)
15. the articles are all pretty much the same whine
Sat Sep 27, 2025, 10:43 PM
Sep 27

it is getting very tiresome

over and OUT

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