"But if testosterone doesn't cause violence then why are cis guys so violent?"
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"But if testosterone doesn't cause violence then why are cis guys so violent?"
GrimacesOk look. I'm sure I once believed this, so I'll treat the question in good faith. It's a common pseudoscientific dogma, one spread by high school science teachers and shitty "feminist" YouTubers alike. But it's bollocks. 1/
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"But if testosterone doesn't cause violence then why are cis guys so violent?"
GrimacesOk look. I'm sure I once believed this, so I'll treat the question in good faith. It's a common pseudoscientific dogma, one spread by high school science teachers and shitty "feminist" YouTubers alike. But it's bollocks. 1/
What you've got to understand about this is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We tell boys "oh you can't help being violent, it's just in your nature", and then they go out and do violence, and we say "well this just proves it".
It's a core part of what we call the "boys will be boys" phenomenon, where we forgive any manner of misbehaviour from boys and men, and shift the responsibility onto women and girls. We blame what a girl was wearing, or the fact that women keep refusing to go out with some dude. Or we blame mothers. It never seems to land on the guys themselves. 2/
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What you've got to understand about this is that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy. We tell boys "oh you can't help being violent, it's just in your nature", and then they go out and do violence, and we say "well this just proves it".
It's a core part of what we call the "boys will be boys" phenomenon, where we forgive any manner of misbehaviour from boys and men, and shift the responsibility onto women and girls. We blame what a girl was wearing, or the fact that women keep refusing to go out with some dude. Or we blame mothers. It never seems to land on the guys themselves. 2/
I remember when this was first pointed out to me years ago, and then suddenly I started seeing it everywhere. Even progressive female friends were perpetuating it. I was flabbergasted.
"Boys will be boys" is insidious, and "testosterone causes violence" is the scientific-sounding gloss of it. 3/
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I remember when this was first pointed out to me years ago, and then suddenly I started seeing it everywhere. Even progressive female friends were perpetuating it. I was flabbergasted.
"Boys will be boys" is insidious, and "testosterone causes violence" is the scientific-sounding gloss of it. 3/
When a human being, of any gender, is allowed to operate without accountability, they go nucking futs. (Technical term.) Look at Musk. Look at Trump. Look at the manosphere.
They've got to be told "no". And they've got to learn to understand it. 4/
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