If this had been any one other than Janice writing about Dworkin, I’d have not believed a word of it. I know a bit about Chesler, including her stint as a Muslim bride in Kabul (look it up, she wrote a book on it) and understand (although I might not agree with with her on everything) how she got to here from there.
If this had been any one other than Janice writing about Dworkin, I’d have not believed a word of it. I know a bit about Chesler, including her stint as a Muslim bride in Kabul (look it up, she wrote a book on it) and understand (although I might not agree with with her on everything) how she got to here from there.
And like Janice, this Dworkin seems to me a tad more approachable than the toad, I’d forced myself to read about.
But like every feminist, or woman brought up at their feminist mothers knee, she can’t help but include a shot at men even when its not about men… “Nothing offers more proof—sad, irrefutable proof—that we are more like men than either they or we care to believe” (p. 115).
Ha! The Hormone that differentiates men from woman, testosterone, is also a social bonding hormone that allows and allowed men to build teams and groups to not only hunt aurock’s but to also build Cathedrals, businesses, win wars and yes effect great social change without descending into the type of psychotic behaviour Dworkin, Chesler and Morgan describe. When I was in High School the year book committee generally was a coed endeavour. One of the high schools in our conference had an all female committee that needed to resort to the teachers and admin office support to get it printed and distributed on time because the members weren’t talking to one another, the meetings turned into screaming matches, some members left in tears…Nice. Sound familiar!
Very interesting--I didn't know that about testosterone!
I've read Chesler's memoir about her time in Kabul. She also wrote a bizarre introduction to a collection of letters by the serial killer Aileen Wuornos to her lover or friend Dawn. Chesler's intro is quite something--a gushing, sentimental tribute to a woman who killed seven men "in self defense." Chesler is a good writer and a very strange person.
Ask the man or women on the street what the effect of Testosterone is on men and they’ll tell you it makes us violent!
It does if violence is the way to get the job done. Testosterone, aside from turning boys into men, is the hormone that lets groups of men decide and get behind leadership and try and build a Highway to the Heavens… sorry for the hyperbole but I’m on a roll.😊
Go to a powerlifting gym, and I bet those guys are some of the friendliest you'll probably ever meet.
T makes men social. Women apparently, not so much. I've heard women don't deal well with elevated testosterone, it reputedly has deleterious psychological/emotional effects.
I'm no expert, but I've read that assuming roles of leadership actually stimulates an increase in testosterone. It could be, at least in some cases, that increased testosterone is the effect of certain roles and behaviors rather than the cause..
If this had been any one other than Janice writing about Dworkin, I’d have not believed a word of it. I know a bit about Chesler, including her stint as a Muslim bride in Kabul (look it up, she wrote a book on it) and understand (although I might not agree with with her on everything) how she got to here from there.
And like Janice, this Dworkin seems to me a tad more approachable than the toad, I’d forced myself to read about.
But like every feminist, or woman brought up at their feminist mothers knee, she can’t help but include a shot at men even when its not about men… “Nothing offers more proof—sad, irrefutable proof—that we are more like men than either they or we care to believe” (p. 115).
Ha! The Hormone that differentiates men from woman, testosterone, is also a social bonding hormone that allows and allowed men to build teams and groups to not only hunt aurock’s but to also build Cathedrals, businesses, win wars and yes effect great social change without descending into the type of psychotic behaviour Dworkin, Chesler and Morgan describe. When I was in High School the year book committee generally was a coed endeavour. One of the high schools in our conference had an all female committee that needed to resort to the teachers and admin office support to get it printed and distributed on time because the members weren’t talking to one another, the meetings turned into screaming matches, some members left in tears…Nice. Sound familiar!
Very interesting--I didn't know that about testosterone!
I've read Chesler's memoir about her time in Kabul. She also wrote a bizarre introduction to a collection of letters by the serial killer Aileen Wuornos to her lover or friend Dawn. Chesler's intro is quite something--a gushing, sentimental tribute to a woman who killed seven men "in self defense." Chesler is a good writer and a very strange person.
Ask the man or women on the street what the effect of Testosterone is on men and they’ll tell you it makes us violent!
It does if violence is the way to get the job done. Testosterone, aside from turning boys into men, is the hormone that lets groups of men decide and get behind leadership and try and build a Highway to the Heavens… sorry for the hyperbole but I’m on a roll.😊
And with respect to Chesler… oh boy is she ever!
Go to a powerlifting gym, and I bet those guys are some of the friendliest you'll probably ever meet.
T makes men social. Women apparently, not so much. I've heard women don't deal well with elevated testosterone, it reputedly has deleterious psychological/emotional effects.
I'm no expert, but I've read that assuming roles of leadership actually stimulates an increase in testosterone. It could be, at least in some cases, that increased testosterone is the effect of certain roles and behaviors rather than the cause..
Testosterone facilitates dominance and submission in hierarchies, without which hierarchies are kinda pointless.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05603-7
Having attended an all-girls high school, I don't find this surprising at all.