What testosterone really does is when your status is being challenged, testosterone makes you do whatever you need to do to maintain status. You can have an economic game where people get status by making generous offers and give people testosterone and they become more generous in the game. In other words, if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.
Cuddly gerbils
Submitted 1 month ago by ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz
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This2ShallPass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
redchert@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.
Thats a very mystical view of buddhism.
ickplant@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Study in question: news.emory.edu/stories/2022/08/…/story.html
Zkuld@lemmy.world 1 month ago
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Looks like a Rodentdendron.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Welcome to Gerbil Orgy. We just begin cuddle puddle. You will join?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz 1 month ago
I can think of one male friend who prefers handshakes, but the rest, we all hug at each greeting and parting and regularly tell each other we love one another.
We don’t really cuddle all that often though.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like maybe you’re too much of a pussy to cuddle your boys?
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Then why is there an odd number of gerbils?
OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today 1 month ago
Someone had to take the picture!
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Pepper couldn’t make the shoot.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Because you are bad at counting. There’s one more at the very end, behind the branch. You can only see a an eye and an ear.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You’re right!
Godric@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I get it, I too am filled with immense rage and could use a hug, it checks out!
tomenzgg@midwest.social 1 month ago
Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.
Just in Case
/s
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I envy these creatures, they get to cuddle all the time, and not worry about someone overthinking it.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 month ago
…and they also looked like gerbils?
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 month ago
Testosterone makes the boys more cuddly? Explains a lot.
0x0@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Roid rage is mostly a myth when it comes to regular T
FerretyFever0@fedia.io 1 month ago
I know, just didn't realize it could potentially be the opposite.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
i have tried both testosterone and estrogen (trans). Testosterone rage is definitely real and so is estrogen mood swings. It’s not like the movies though, moreso you can’t solve a puzzle so you ragequit and just are really pissed off.
estrogen will make you cry over a pidgin because it walks cute
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The gym makes so much more sense now.