At 7:16 AM -0400 10/17/98, Brent Eades wrote:
>On 16 Oct 98, Gill, Kathy wrote:
>
>> Grrrr. Not flaming at you per se, Brent ... it's the connotations of the
>> word "excess" that gets me. What they are studying is girls whose
>> testosterone levels are above average!
>
>Hmm... now, I'd have thought that most women would define "excess"
>testosterone levels as those that caused them to act like Tim Taylor on
>"Home Improvement", rather than like rational, mature human beings.
i was railing at the judgment invoked in the word "excess" ... particularly
when it's not defined (as it wasn't in the utne reader article, per my
memory)
>Actually, I do tend to subscribe to the evolutionary-biological thesis on
>this subject, to the effect that aggression favours males of various
>species who have to compete against one another for the opportunity to
>reproduce (and so perpetuate their genetic lineage.)
yep -- so do i -- particularly after reading _The Moral Animal_
kathy
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