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This "article" is an example of highly motivated reasoning. The first potential cause that he proposes of this "decades long 'phenomenon'" (yes, I'm doubing up
by ouid 4y ago
This "article" is an example of highly motivated reasoning. The first potential cause that he proposes of this "decades long 'phenomenon'" (yes, I'm doubing up on air quotes, sue me) is social distancing.
Since the actual text is nonsense, I think it is reasonable to substitute it with the subtext, "Men aren't men and haven't been since 1950, and it's because of the democrats". He's free to write an article about this, I suppose, but its definitely not "signal", as the mission statement of HN demands.
- ImPostingOnHN 4y agoyeah, the whole "affirmative consent is too difficult for men these days" angle seems like projection from someone upset that consent is necessary for sex
- Balgair 4y agoJust want to point out two things when it comes towards viewing the 'recent' past in terms of 'manly men'. 1) Smoking increase testosterone levels in men [0]. As smoking levels have dropped, it is resonable to conclude that testosterone levels have too. It will be interesting to see the results of vaping on testosterone levels. 2) Obesity lowers testosterone. As the obesity epidemic clocks onward, testosterone levels will continue to fall. I'm not going to claim that lower testosterone levels are population wide, or that smoking should come back, or that obesity doesn't have other effects. But I am claiming that there is something there and that it's not all smoke and mirrors (pardon the pun). Our perceptions that 'manly men' have gone away in living memory are ... maybe true. [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24457405/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24457405/ [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955331/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3955331/