shock:

can we please stop using testosterone as an excuse/explanation/defining point for the way men are ‘prone to anger’ and ‘naturally like that’ re: interacting with women because i’ve been giving myself testosterone injections for over a year now, i have the SAME amount of testosterone in my body as the average man, and guess what?

it didn’t turn me into an evil piece of shit who blames all his problems on women and has to take things out on them. 

there’s no biological code regarding hormones that makes men misogynists. saying so not only absolves blame, it also associates people like me with hatred and a now-biological inclination to be a complete jerk, when that couldn’t be further from the truth.

a lot of people asked me if i got more angry after starting testosterone. a lot of people were afraid it’d turn me into a jerk, BECAUSE of this false belief of testosterone = a bully. no. i’ve never BEEN prone to anger like that. it’s not a part of who i AM. i’m still myself. 

focus on a different area of analysis.