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"snowflake" is used commonly as a pejorative without a clear definition in mind, much less a consistent application criteria. If you could specify in more detail what phenomena you think may be related to low testosterone, you're more likely to find better reception.


Someone else can probably describe it better than me with concrete examples and comparing and contrasting different periods in history, I only have a feel for the zeitgeist.


Except it isn’t actually a thing. The people who loudly proclaim ‘snowflake’ invariably have zero personal resilience themselves.


Exactly. Constant complaining doesn't show much resilience.


I don’t see how that’s dismissing my idea? Low testosterone all around it seems.


S/He's dismissing the idea of snowflake culture, not the testosterone study.


Hipsters, Hippies, Beatniks, Bohemians- there have always been youth cultures with an equal mix of idealism and entitlement. Usually these subcultures are rooted in the educated middle classes. With the massive increase in higher education rates in the past half century, these subcultures grow larger. None of this is new. It's just an effect of societal development.


how does that related to the study? lack of physical activity or something? it seems like they controlled for such factors and the problem persisted


I'm not referring to the study, I'm arguing against the OP's claims that "snowflakes" are a new phenomenon.


I think it correlates, but I don't know if one causes the other.

I've been hearing of these kind of "testosterone levels are declining" studies for a while. For a looong time I've been perplexed by modern males -- they just don't seem like people I grew up with. Physical forms are much softer, voices lighter -- lots of either ectomorphs or endomorphs. For me, these studies provide an "Ah, so that must be it" way of seeing it. At least it's a plausible explanation.

Related to this, we need to bring the word "twerp"[1] back into the vernacular.

[1] https://www.wordnik.com/words/twerp




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