I wish I could fix you ...

[athanasius]

This seems indicative of a truly broken culture in desperate need of change. I wish there was something I could do about it, but let's face it I'm in no shape to be trying to change anything about anyone else when I can't even attempt to fix my own brokenness.

I read that article earlier in the day, and then just now I came across:

UK teenage

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[shadowconn]

The violence and sex isn't anything new. There's just more studies on it making it seem more prevalent. Violence starts at a young age and is typically learned. The unwanted sexual advances are pretty easy to explain. "Come-on, just do it, it won't hurt, you know you want to, yadayada." If I Had a dollar for everytime I heard that shit, sections of my life would have been much easier. Hell, I'm sure my college could have been paid for like that.

[athanasius]

Violence starts at a young age and is typically learned.

Exactly, and that's why I say our culture(s) are fundamentally broken. The only way in the long term to not have this kind of bullshit happening is to somehow prevent that very early learning of behaviour.

I was just pondering what effect we'd see from (after taking sufficient sperm samples for necessary inseminations to maintain population) we chemically reduced testosterone levels in all human males (from as young as it is safe to do so). Reading 'the news' today I kept on coming across case after case of stupid fucked up male aggression being the source of the problems.

Stop this world, I want to get off :/.

[shadowconn]

How do we manage the hormones without creating pansy males?

[athanasius]

There is the matter of degree. At one end there are males out to start a fight with anything that breathes, or even some things that don't. At the other end are people who hide away in a hole because the whole idea of any interaction scares them (hmmm, wonder what my testosterone levels are... my libido suggests they're not utterly awful). There is, of course, a middle ground.

And it's not *all* about hormones, there's culture and environment in general as well. Just we seem to be failing at that so maybe some sledgehammer help from reducing the hormonal side of things would allow society to get a grip on the problem.