Testosterone doesn't directly inspire violence in the male, it makes the male very conscious of hierarchy, and then the (young, unfinished, low-status) male acts out violently in pursuit of status. I am curious to know more about its behavioral effects on these poor young women taking it. Same with males and estrogen. How does it affect other risk-taking behaviors?
People seem to have missed that there were 2 men and a woman climbing up the barriers and fist waving in nyc. One also with their top off, the blonde next to the main guy, has been described as a man in nearly every report, when “he” clearly has mastectomy scars and is a woman. Is it that we find it easier to recognise the men, because they are dangerous to us. I wonder if men recognise the women more easily.
Years ago, I heard an interview with an author on my local NPR station...I don’t remember the show or even which author it was although I believe it may have been Patrick Barbier, talking about his book “The World of the Castrati.” The author described how castrati opera singers in the 1700s were the rockstars of their day. I was morbidly fascinated by the physical and psychological effects that castration had on the boys’ bodies and minds as they grew older. The practice was finally banned in the late 1800s in Italy as it was generally considered unacceptably barbaric. When I searched for the word “castrati” on NPR, the adjective “barbaric” seemed to go hand in hand with it in virtually every search result, and yet: here we are today!
The most famous castrato was Farinelli, whose remains were exhumed in 2006 and studied:
“The cult of personality and success surrounding the singers grew to be so great that it became common practice for poverty stricken peasant families to offer up their sons for castration. Some historians even estimate that nearly seventy percent of opera singers during this time were castrati, with an estimated 4,000 boys eight-years and older castrated each year...”
"Could this explain why Anthony Martucci behaved so poorly at #letwomenspeak NYC"
I often wonder if MTFs behave so aggressively and in my opinion deranged because of the effect of estrogen on male bodies.
Testosterone doesn't directly inspire violence in the male, it makes the male very conscious of hierarchy, and then the (young, unfinished, low-status) male acts out violently in pursuit of status. I am curious to know more about its behavioral effects on these poor young women taking it. Same with males and estrogen. How does it affect other risk-taking behaviors?
Kind of like crossing their spark plug wires...
Except with chemistry
Yup.
People seem to have missed that there were 2 men and a woman climbing up the barriers and fist waving in nyc. One also with their top off, the blonde next to the main guy, has been described as a man in nearly every report, when “he” clearly has mastectomy scars and is a woman. Is it that we find it easier to recognise the men, because they are dangerous to us. I wonder if men recognise the women more easily.
Years ago, I heard an interview with an author on my local NPR station...I don’t remember the show or even which author it was although I believe it may have been Patrick Barbier, talking about his book “The World of the Castrati.” The author described how castrati opera singers in the 1700s were the rockstars of their day. I was morbidly fascinated by the physical and psychological effects that castration had on the boys’ bodies and minds as they grew older. The practice was finally banned in the late 1800s in Italy as it was generally considered unacceptably barbaric. When I searched for the word “castrati” on NPR, the adjective “barbaric” seemed to go hand in hand with it in virtually every search result, and yet: here we are today!
The most famous castrato was Farinelli, whose remains were exhumed in 2006 and studied:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128224-600-lack-of-testes-gave-castrato-superstar-headaches/
https://www.metguild.org/Opera_News_Magazine/2006/7/News/Remains_of_Famous_Castrato_Farinelli_Exhumed_for_Scientific_Study.html
“The cult of personality and success surrounding the singers grew to be so great that it became common practice for poverty stricken peasant families to offer up their sons for castration. Some historians even estimate that nearly seventy percent of opera singers during this time were castrati, with an estimated 4,000 boys eight-years and older castrated each year...”