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[–]Vulptex 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

The male mental quality is also significantly lower. During puberty almost everything is completely renovated, and that includes the brain. More "fun" abilities get thrown away to focus entirely on more practical ones for the male (aka worse) role in nature such as hunting and sports. Females retain the much broader range of cognitive abilities we had during childhood. Male emotions also completely change, with everything becoming monotone; post-puberty a man can experience the best thing that ever happened to him and still not feel as happy as he would on a normal day in his childhood. Even your physical senses become much less vivid. The only thing men can feel with any degree of intensity is anger, and our baseline shifts from mostly positive by default to mostly negative. This makes us much better warriors and providers but doesn't do ourselves any favors. Even our bodies develop uncomfortably and ugly in exchange for greater strength. Women only get breasts and a uterus, both of which can be dealt with fairly easily in most cases. As a male your entire life becomes all about sacrificing yourself for females because they're more valuable to nature. So if you end up asexual or something like me and you're not a sex worshipper, your life is basically not even worth living because you've been redeveloped in every way for that above all else, and it's now the only purpose available to you in life.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

To add to that, testosterone blocks oxytocin, we don't even experience love as strongly as women do. Which serves a practical purpose but it kinda sucks.

Although on the plus side, men look better as they age to a point, and we aren't as susceptible to being overwhelmed by emotions.

[–]Vulptex 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I think women still look better. Men are less healthy, get fatter, grow hair everywhere but their head, don't live as long, look older at the same age, etc. They're almost always burned out and miserable because life. If they're not they're probably pretending because males are not allowed to burden other people with their problems like females are.

Testosterone seems to block everything good and generally make life unsatisfying and negative. Granted it blocks most strong negative things too, but it enhances anger and you are almost always super irritable, and it generally shifts your baseline from slightly positive to slightly negative. I'd say feeling worse sometimes is worth it to feel a lot better the rest of the time. Plus I remember as a kid getting over things pretty quickly whereas now it bothers me all day or even long term, because I'm unable to feel what I need to feel.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

and it generally shifts your baseline from slightly positive to slightly negative

Testosterone generally makes you feel awesome, you may just be depressed.

[–]Vulptex 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

It can for some people but it also blocks most emotions and feelings.