(September 30, 2018 at 1:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(September 30, 2018 at 12:48 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Whether or not any masculine traits exist which are not learned and arbitrary is an interesting question. But if you have to ask what they are then the answer is probably no. So positive ones? Meh. Personally I'd prefer to think if there are any and I'm a man, then what can I do about it? Not much. But if they amount to some unthinking societal code which I'm expected to figure out and master .. no thank you. I'll pass.
Probably will just frustrate you more but I still feel like positive things men can do is just positive things people can do - being done by a man. I just don't spend any time thinking about what to do or not do on the basis of being male.
To argue that there are no inherently male traits and that it's all just society and culture would be to argue that having 10000% more testoserone has no effect on someone. I doubt you'll find a scientist willing to go along with that assertion.
Take a woman and inject her to make level testosterone and you see changes in her mood, behavior, threshhold for risk, all kinds of things. It's a hell of a drug.
Well good thing I haven't done that. As I say, I find the question interesting. But I don't think there is any direct line and uniform way testosterone is expressed in the behavior of men. Cultural heritage is huge in understanding human behavior.
