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Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by dTal on Sunday November 13, 2022 @08:06PM (#33589113)
>Remember Romeo and Juliet? The Mont. and the Cap. boys were not lower class yobs. Fighting in the street with freaking swords was their golf.

I mean, they were also fictional characters in a dramatic play about murder and suicide. I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that.

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Re:Why are male testosterone levels falling? by carapace on Monday November 14, 2022 @10:10AM (#33595083)
> I'm not sure it's safe to extrapolate broad cultural trends from that.

Then it's a good thing that I'm not doing that. I'm not extrapolating, I'm referencing an example (however fictional, I don't think anyone has accused the Bard of a lack of verisimilitude?) that should be familiar to most people here.

Are you arguing that all those knives and swords were merely decorative? That men solved their problems with, I dunno, words rather than weapons?

Isn't that kinda the whole point of human history: learning to use words instead of sharp bits of rock or metal?

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