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/

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/

I was never a man, but I had standard male testosterone levels for decades. I was never violent. I wasn't afforded the toxic forgiveness for my misdeeds that a lot of men around me were.

Testosterone may make you hungry, horny, hot, and hairy. But it doesn't make you violent.
Fin/

@Tattie are you aware of this work?
Famous researcher in sociology circles.
https://youtu.be/LpdNEd8fWcw?si=C4HdKnGQzjguVFM1

Edit: Sapolsky, shown in thumb, is a reaearcher/sociologist who works on this question and concluded that testosterone isn't what makes violent men violent. Studies of animals and people show that's not the case.
He's in textbooks etc and has a Nature paper (£), if someone has an accessible article on his 'Trouble with Testosterone' work that isn't AI shite, pls do share.

@Tattie sorry, his nature paper is called The Trouble with Testosterone and it's not free to read so I didn't think linking that would be useful.
His point is that testosterone is a permissive hormone not one that causes violence. I tried to find a summary but it's mostly AI shit coming up, I'll try to look later. That is actually him speaking though, the researcher, not some random.

Ah, also a book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20668.The_Trouble_with_Testosterone_and_Other_Essays_on_the_Biology_of_the_Human_Predicament

@noodlemaz @fallbackerik if you throw a link into a (what could be a heated) thread, you should give an idea of what it’s about so people can decide to watch. Whenever someone posts about T here in a positive way, lots of people pile on to tell us T is “poison” so we’re already on the alert for bad actors.

When I saw your reply, I didn’t know if the video was refuting or backing up what she was saying. It’s valid to not want to watch a video that could be trying to stir up shit- what you included didn’t give any indication of the video content. I even opened the link and the description didn’t tell me what his stance was. Just provide a bit of context about the video if you want people to watch it.