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It's conflating traditional gender norms, social masculinity, and physical traits like testosterone, then bundling everything into you gotta act like X to acquire Y, because that's how muscles work. Rugged man living off the woods in Alaska feels like a tropey barbarian.

If his logic is to believed, there should be equal methods to raise hormone levels for estrogen. I'm curious what he would propose.

Living in the wilderness is probably hard work, but I might bet more on the guy who plays team sports on weekends, eats healthy meals, and tries to get laid in a civil society.

People had meek cousins at all times of history.



I think the reference to Sparta in the parent comment is the icing on the cake.




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