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Take It From a High-E Woman, Low-T Boys: You’re Pathetic
You’re so weak you can’t even upload a profile picture
I was talking with my daughter and her boyfriend yesterday. We had a great talk. My dearest child decided to call me up and say, “Hello Mother,” just because she knows that drives me nuts.
They’re a happy young couple with three cats, their own home, and lots of plans for right now and the future.
Devin’s a High-T guy like my husband Bruce is a High-T man. My daughter is some sort of force of nature. It runs in the family.
I make fun of incels and Men’s Rights “Advocates” and call them “Low-T” because they’re so weak and pathetic. I also think there’s a genuine lack of normal hormones involved. These guys are the male version of girls who weep out and can’t play sports, feign helplessness (guys do that with things they don’t want to do, but hey, who’s counting?), and who backstab other women every chance they get. They’d be the “Low-E” women.
When I was growing up, there was a kind of faux-benevolent misogyny which was common in television and movies — as well as in real life. Movies like My Fair Lady, which showed an average-looking, yet wealthy, highly-educated, and powerful professorial and let’s say “less than masculine” man who thinks he needs to tell…