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Testosterone Tumbling in American Males
An anonymous reader writes "Yahoo is running a story about a study that concludes that testosterone levels are falling across all age groups among American men. It says 'The testosterone-fueled American male may be losing his punch'" I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.
It's all being sold in shops in WoW.
...welcome our new metro-sexual overlords?
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At this point, I think it's really more of a "forceful slap" than anything.
Is that I guess I'm not alone! Now I can point to this study and tell my girl, "See? It's happening to all the guys my age -- you're not cool unless you have a reduced libido!"
Gotta get me one of these!
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My steaks are wrapped in plastic, but I eat them raw, so it's ok right?
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I believe in that theory as well.
It's clear that young women today have bigger tits than the previous generations. And now we know that the level testosterone is dropping to almost nothing in men.
I am not gonna say that it's a left-wing conspiracy, but I do think that this could also explain the increase of leftist mentality that has been slowly happening over the last decades (ie just not as a reaction to Bush).
Just like Romans used lead in their aqueducts, we seem to be poisonning ourselves. Hopefully the results will be different for us.
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It's all that crappy emo music that's hitting it big. The guys are becoming even more fragile than us nerds! (And scoring twice the women, still)
space is pretty cool.
It's just further on into the pussification of America.
...Rob
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since when do I need an excuse?
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No, more like the incessant pussification of the male race and the metrosexual trend. The government should mandate that those who have low testosterone for no good reason must watch movies like Commando until their testosterone level rises to acceptable levels.
Hopefully the results will be different for us.
Bigger tits and mood swings for everyone?
is that there are still some of us left with unreduced libidos, who are capable of stepping up and picking up the slack. I'm willing to score with your girlfriend or with any other attractive women who share her problem, working round the clock if that's the kind of unflagging effort necessary to keep up the American birthrate.
No need to thank me. The chance to service my country is all the thanks I need.
Clearly we need to start adding testosterone to plastic. Then we can have male and female versions of soda bottles. The companies can charge extra for the "man's drink bottle" to offset the extra expense, as men won't want to be caught with the "women's drink bottle"[1]. I think I had better patent this...
[1] this logic might not work on male Mac users.
It's because people keep bitching about how unhealthy red meat is.
What happened to the days when a guy could fix his car in his garage, build something in the basement, then eat a nice big juicy steak with a potato for dinner, then go watch the news about a war?
This war on terror isn't a real war, there's no good healthy warmongering in it...it's all about "protect the children" rather than my bombs are bigger and faster than yours.
We need to stop stomping out countries on the verge of becoming competitive world powers. We need another cold war, where men can be paranoid until they're real men.
We also need a new generation of muscle cars, and more lumber yards cropping up, these "home centers" make me want to puke.
In the infamous words of George Carlin, later repeated by Denis Leary and others (which I will poorly misquote)... A man needs to sit home eating red meat and watching the war on TV!
Real men drink Pabst blue Ribbon beer, and punch holes in the wall to prod their ego.... and thats what a real man is... Flesh, Blood, Muscle and ego!
Now I'm off to play with my dollies.
Make America grate again!
I, for one, welcome the pussification of the American male.
That's why I only drink grain alcohol and rain water.
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In other words, the less testosterone I secrete, the simpler my life gets. I'm OK with that.
(Every engineer should have a mistress and a wife. First you tell your wife you're spending the night with your mistress. Then you tell your mistress you have to spend the night with your wife. Only after you have done both of these things will you have enough time to yourself to get back to the lab and do some useful work!)
You're thinking of beer.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Then I realised a few things:
I may not excercise much beyond walking the mutt around the block, but playing
games that up the adrenalin levels and has even forced a girlfriend or two to
leave the room, saying "Too much testosterone for me".
So deathmatch may not be a full contact sport, but the chemical effects are similar.
Guys being guys; talking smack, killing their friends virtually and having a blast being
assholes. Good times.
Quote:I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.
I'd ask two questions:
When was the last time you did something that made you say "Hell, yeah" or do/say something non-PC or trash talk.
When was the last time you used a chainsaw (doom 1/2/3 sorta counts, electric chainsaws don't) or any power tool?
If it's been more than a month or so, LAN party and make some noise, buy a fucking overpowered tool for your needs, go to a gun range, paintball war, BB gun and shoot *SOMETHING*, FFS.
Or, hell, if that's too much, too soon and you're worried your missing your favorite cooking
show or some shit, at least go out an BBQ something. Men don't cook unless there is fire or danger involved, eh? Plates, knives and forks and eat.
If you are worried about place settings or matching whateverthefuck... it's hopeless, so just take one of those Sony batteries that needs a recall, short the contacts and place down your trousers where your balls might be located and wait. It'll all be over soon.
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Estrogens are to blame for this behavior.
No, not the natural estrogens that women produce, but the man-made estrogens present in pretty much every product you can purchase today: soda bottles, laundry detergent, hand soap, gasoline - pretty much anything that is derived from petrolium in some way. These estrogens (IIRC) block the production of testosterone as well as the natural production of estrogen. In women, it contirbutes to fuglyness (hairy lips, etc.) and things like ovarian cancer; in men it contributes to femininity and general lack of testosterone.
And let me be the first to say: this is why there are so many liberals.
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You left off #7 - "Hall sex" - where you pass each other in the hallway and go "F*ck you". "Yeah? Well f*ck you too!"
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