No, I won't start. I'll just mention that unless it was meant to be completely tongue-in-cheek, this is exactly the kind of approach that will harm the point she's trying to make. Her profile gives me no confidence whatsoever that she is qualified to comment on what anyone's hormonal composition does to their behaviour, and that includes herself---unless she can tell me about her precise hormonal situation at every point in her cycle, compare that quantitively to a man's, and then convince me that a slight shift to a more T-heavy chemical soup would have the effects she claims she is getting. I am not a medical scientist or biochemist myself, but I would be so painfully extremely wary of positing any kind of linear direct relationship between hormonal compositions and behaviour.
When pro-creationists make this kind of shaky-science argument, we throw our hands up in the air and go "Oh, please," after all.
I quoted it more for the cute than for Teh Science. There is actually some scientific merit to the point she makes, but there are also flaws; it's mostly useful as a "here's a perspective adjustment" sort of quote than as a biology lesson.
(MTF and FTM transsexuals have described mood and behavioural changes resulting from changing hormones, and what they say is interesting. From what I recall of what an FTM friend told me, T didn't produce PMS-like effects, but did noticeably alter his driving, his agressiveness, his temper ... So no, the effects are not quite as described in this quote, but are interesting nonetheless.)
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No, I won't start. I'll just mention that unless it was meant to be completely tongue-in-cheek, this is exactly the kind of approach that will harm the point she's trying to make. Her profile gives me no confidence whatsoever that she is qualified to comment on what anyone's hormonal composition does to their behaviour, and that includes herself---unless she can tell me about her precise hormonal situation at every point in her cycle, compare that quantitively to a man's, and then convince me that a slight shift to a more T-heavy chemical soup would have the effects she claims she is getting. I am not a medical scientist or biochemist myself, but I would be so painfully extremely wary of positing any kind of linear direct relationship between hormonal compositions and behaviour.
When pro-creationists make this kind of shaky-science argument, we throw our hands up in the air and go "Oh, please," after all.
Well spoken
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(MTF and FTM transsexuals have described mood and behavioural changes resulting from changing hormones, and what they say is interesting. From what I recall of what an FTM friend told me, T didn't produce PMS-like effects, but did noticeably alter his driving, his agressiveness, his temper ... So no, the effects are not quite as described in this quote, but are interesting nonetheless.)