mekka okereke Mar 7

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-R9kjh0X7R_6U6xPciOIKIw%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

Yup.

Like I've said: roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not. Anyone that tries to tell you that it is a real thing, is probably trying to justify violence by petulant man-babies.

If you're thinking "But steroids can make you irritable!🤡" I don't care. All women get irritable. All women know how guns and knives work. But they don't shoot and stab and beat people every time they get irritable. Part of being an adult, is learning how to regulate your emotions. Keep your hands to yourself.

Steroids don't make big men angry. Steroids make angry men big. What would've been a 150 lb twerp, is now a 200 lb twerp. Steroids give them the opportunity to try to live out their violence. When I worked as a bouncer in college, I often had to hulk-smash roided out dudes that don't understand that steroids won't help them against me, and that fighting is a skill, and that they didn't have that skill.

I've never taken steroids. I'm an elite level natural powerlifter. Many powerlifters and bodybuilders aren't natural, which means that they do take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. They don't rage on people.

I don't judge people who take steroids for sports. I certainly don't judge people who do gender affirming care. I am pro-gender affirming care. What I'm against, is violent people that try to blame steroids as their excuse for hurting people that they perceive as smaller than them.

No.

It's not the steroids. It's you.

Show threadmorganMar 7

@mekkaokereke Reminds me of a study I read about many years ago where participants had to play a typical psychology-study game where had to make a choice to be more fair or more selfish. Control group got placebo. The three experimental groups got:

* placebo, but told it was testosterone
* testosterone, but not told what it was
* testosterone, and told it was testosterone

Show threadmorganMar 7
@mekkaokereke The ones who got t. and not told what it was played somewhat more fairly than the control group, which is interesting. But much more interesting was that the ones who were _told_ they were given testosterone played much more selfishly, whether it was placebo or not. The conclusion was that people's _idea_ of what hormones do completely overrides their actual effects on behavior.
Show threadmorganMar 8
@mekkaokereke found the study! https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/testosterone-leads-to-fairness-not-aggression-researchers-1.796578
Testosterone leads to fairness, not aggression: researchers | CBC News

Testosterone doesn't cause people to become aggressive or risky as many people believe but actually encourages fairness, European researchers say.

CBC
Show threadCarolynMar 8

@mw @mekkaokereke "Researchers at the University of Zurich and Royal Holloway, University of London conducted a study of 120 women and found that testosterone promoted fairness in a bargaining game."

120 is interesting, not proof. :)

Show threadNemoMar 8
@CStamp
depending on effect size, 120 is a good number!
@mw @mekkaokereke @mekkaokereke
Show threadCarolynMar 8
@iinavpov 120 is only big enough to indicate if more study would be warranted. With regards to only women, a lot of new meds fail because they had only been tested on men, to avoid issues with monthly changes of hormone levels on their results. @mw @mekkaokereke
Show threadNemo

@CStamp
no, it literally depends on the effect size.

This is completely different than clinical or preclinical studies.

@mw @mekkaokereke

Mar 8 at 8:09amWeb