I can see the logic in what you are saying, Miranda. I think we forget there are plenty of bio-females out there who have masculine stereo typical personalities (gender identities?). How do FTM transgender men express their masculine side? It's not always easy to discern. Females have much more freedom of expression in society than we males.
In my view, testosterone acts as a heavy blanket that covers our emotions, dulls them, if you will. Hormones aren't the source of a compassionate individual, but they can modulate one's emotional response.
Every time I take a PM break, I encounter an instance or two where I unknowingly do or say something insensitively. When my hurtful behavior is pointed out to me, I'm usually regretful and apologetic. By contrast, when I'm fully charged up with PM, that kind of behavior rarely happens, at least without my realizing it immediately. But, clearly, no amount of estrogen is going to make a hard-hearted person empathetic and compassionate if it isn't in his basic nature to begin with.
Clara
In my view, testosterone acts as a heavy blanket that covers our emotions, dulls them, if you will. Hormones aren't the source of a compassionate individual, but they can modulate one's emotional response.
Every time I take a PM break, I encounter an instance or two where I unknowingly do or say something insensitively. When my hurtful behavior is pointed out to me, I'm usually regretful and apologetic. By contrast, when I'm fully charged up with PM, that kind of behavior rarely happens, at least without my realizing it immediately. But, clearly, no amount of estrogen is going to make a hard-hearted person empathetic and compassionate if it isn't in his basic nature to begin with.
Clara