MetabolicTrash
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I know I didn't post any here, but some of the latest things going is trying to associate political leaning/preferences/etc. with one's level of certain hormones, or sex/gender. I immediately think of it as pseudo-science in ways, but I guess that depends. Basically things like associating higher testosterone with right-wing and lower-testosterone with left-wing, merely as independent factors themselves in solely determining a political preference. I find correlations involving one variable flawed because they disregard so many other factors that weigh in. I also think one of the biggest things to determine political preference is probably upbringing/social experiences than a current snapshot of certain hormones, as that immediately evolves in to bunk science like claiming right-wing men tending to be high testosterone is because they are less empathic due to testosterone and testosterone makes you mean, violent, angry and blah, blah, blah (the Alex Jones 2.0 stereotype). They also will say the opposite -- estrogen makes you very nice and caring and innocent, which is why left-wing people always supposedly care about others more & want to vote in people they see as more helpful. It sums down to ridiculousness like: testosterone = mean/careless/bad therefore likes Donald Trump; estrogen = caring/helpful/good therefore likes Hillary Clinton.
But you can probably Google and find stuff linking androgens with right wing or conservative/Republican preferences, either in men alone or men and women.
I really wonder what others think of this -- linking some hormones with strong political leanings/empathy/virtuousness. I think again -- more than anything -- it's more related to upbringing and a large scale set of hormones (including serotonin's role) than just "testosterone = manly/destructive" and "estrogen = "womanly/restorative."
But you can probably Google and find stuff linking androgens with right wing or conservative/Republican preferences, either in men alone or men and women.
I really wonder what others think of this -- linking some hormones with strong political leanings/empathy/virtuousness. I think again -- more than anything -- it's more related to upbringing and a large scale set of hormones (including serotonin's role) than just "testosterone = manly/destructive" and "estrogen = "womanly/restorative."
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