I’m not going to “agree to disagree” on this any more than I’d “agree to disagree” on any other well-known facts. Here’s the APA:
The APA defines traditional masculinity as “a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence.” The guidelines, which were highlighted in the January issue of the APA’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, say the pressure boys and men feel to conform to certain aspects of traditional masculinity can lead to poor health outcomes, including higher rates of suicide, substance abuse, violence and early death.
In all seriousness, could you provide an anecdote, even a made up one, where someone gets called a “Karen” yet their behaviour doesn’t involve frustration / anger / verbal harassment?
You’ve moved the goalposts. You were claiming that women are more prone to outbursts of anger specifically, because of being less used to testosterone. Now you’re adding “frustration” and “verbal abuse,” which aren’t inherently linked to testosterone. Let’s stick to anger, shall we?
With that in mind, here is one of the prime examples that I remember being used for an example of a “Karen.” She’s not expressing anger, she is expressing distress (played up on the phone), but it’s primarily about exercising her privilege against a minority, weaponizing the police to win an argument. That’s 100% Karen behavior.
You do realize if I’m wrong about that, it would be ALL men who commit acts of violence right?
That’s completely idiotic, no. Your claim is that exposure to testosterone makes men less prone to angry outbursts generally speaking compared to women. For that to be wrong would not require every single man to be prone to angry outbursts, let alone acts of violence. It would only require them to be more prone to those things relative to women, which they are, objectively.
The higher frequency of violence in men is actually more proof I’m right.
How fascinating. It seems that no matter what evidence actually exists out in the world, you’re able to twist it around to support your conclusions. There should be a word for ideas like yours that are so obviously true, may I suggest the word, “unfalsifiable?”
To be clear, running from or bottling emotions is not the same as experiencing them. And it’s certainly not the same as experiencing them frequently.
You’ve played a very interesting trick of language in this section. Your argument rests on the fact that testosterone makes men more prone to feelings of anger, that is, to make them “experience” anger, but then you say that those who bottle up anger or react to it in unhealthy ways are not actually “experiencing” anger. This would imply that you think that testoterone doesn’t merely cause the physiological symptoms that make people more prone to anger, but also inherently, biologically, causes men to respond to those symptoms in psychologically healthy ways. This of course contradicts your whole argument that it’s necessary to learn through practice how to handle those emotions.
If “experiencing” anger means not only experiencing the symptoms, but also handling them in a healthy way and not bottling them up, then testosterone doesn’t make people “experience” anger (only because you’ve redefined the word “experience” in a nonsensical way). If “experiencing” anger means feeling the symptoms of anger, regardless of whether it’s handled in a healthy or unhealthy way, then what you’re saying in this section is all nonsense. You can choose whatever definition you prefer, but you can’t switch back and forth.
This form of emotional adaptation is also scientifically proven:
The paper you linked is very tangentially related to your point. Yes, people adapt emotionally to their environments. That has very little with your bizzare claim that men are less prone to angry outbursts or acts of violence than women because of biology.
I’m not going to “agree to disagree” on this any more than I’d “agree to disagree” on any other well-known facts. Here’s the APA:
The APA defines traditional masculinity as “a particular constellation of standards that have held sway over large segments of the population, including: anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence.” The guidelines, which were highlighted in the January issue of the APA’s Monitor on Psychology magazine, say the pressure boys and men feel to conform to certain aspects of traditional masculinity can lead to poor health outcomes, including higher rates of suicide, substance abuse, violence and early death.
You’ve moved the goalposts. You were claiming that women are more prone to outbursts of anger specifically, because of being less used to testosterone. Now you’re adding “frustration” and “verbal abuse,” which aren’t inherently linked to testosterone. Let’s stick to anger, shall we?
With that in mind, here is one of the prime examples that I remember being used for an example of a “Karen.” She’s not expressing anger, she is expressing distress (played up on the phone), but it’s primarily about exercising her privilege against a minority, weaponizing the police to win an argument. That’s 100% Karen behavior.
That’s completely idiotic, no. Your claim is that exposure to testosterone makes men less prone to angry outbursts generally speaking compared to women. For that to be wrong would not require every single man to be prone to angry outbursts, let alone acts of violence. It would only require them to be more prone to those things relative to women, which they are, objectively.
How fascinating. It seems that no matter what evidence actually exists out in the world, you’re able to twist it around to support your conclusions. There should be a word for ideas like yours that are so obviously true, may I suggest the word, “unfalsifiable?”
You’ve played a very interesting trick of language in this section. Your argument rests on the fact that testosterone makes men more prone to feelings of anger, that is, to make them “experience” anger, but then you say that those who bottle up anger or react to it in unhealthy ways are not actually “experiencing” anger. This would imply that you think that testoterone doesn’t merely cause the physiological symptoms that make people more prone to anger, but also inherently, biologically, causes men to respond to those symptoms in psychologically healthy ways. This of course contradicts your whole argument that it’s necessary to learn through practice how to handle those emotions.
If “experiencing” anger means not only experiencing the symptoms, but also handling them in a healthy way and not bottling them up, then testosterone doesn’t make people “experience” anger (only because you’ve redefined the word “experience” in a nonsensical way). If “experiencing” anger means feeling the symptoms of anger, regardless of whether it’s handled in a healthy or unhealthy way, then what you’re saying in this section is all nonsense. You can choose whatever definition you prefer, but you can’t switch back and forth.
The paper you linked is very tangentially related to your point. Yes, people adapt emotionally to their environments. That has very little with your bizzare claim that men are less prone to angry outbursts or acts of violence than women because of biology.