girlish girls, manly men.

[John V]

Ok, here's some basic Aristotelian (i.e. butt bugger fag) logic for you:

Axiom 1. Manly men in alpha male's definition, who for example think women need to be subordinate, also do the things X1...Xn

Axiom 2. Doing things X1...Xn helps fight depression.

From this one can not logically conclude: it makes sense to be a manly man according to alpha male's definition.

It also doesn't mean that this is some kind of useful way out of clinical depression in any individual case, irrespective of what WebMD writes. I mean, you are trying to insinuate that these people would not have depression if they adopted your lifestyle. That's an unwarranted conclusion.

Straw man. I've noted more than once that in human behavior there are individual exceptions to the general rules.

The only conclusion you can draw is that playing the manly man according to alpha male's definition contains some aspects which might help fight depression. I'm not buying a car in order to light a cigarette either (*). Same thing.

Would you accept a light from the guy with the car, or refuse it out of spite or principle?