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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The study linked in the article only has the abstract available but it does suggest that “testosterone induces a ‘red shift’ among weakly-affiliated Democrats”. I can’t see any of the methodolgy, but even if we go ahead and say that this outdated 2011 study is fine, what conclusions can we draw?

    First thing is that it only found these associations with “weakly aligned” democrats, which is already a pretty narrow slice of the population. It doesn’t surprise me that an idiot on the fence would be swayed by emotion.

    Secondly, it seems to suggest to me that conservatives successfully brand themselves as “masculine”. So a wishy-washy “weakly aligned” democrat who begins feeling more aggressive would probably resonate more with the party of base aggression and masculine posturing, who founds clickbait news sources with fracking billionaire money to tell rural Americans that drinking too much soy makes you gay and that ruins the country. Yeah, sounds pretty conservative to me.

    I wouldn’t make much of this article. If believing in equal rights makes me a soyboy then whip out the cock and I’ll suck it til justice day.