Who You Calling a Bitch

Who You Calling a Bitch

  • Submitted By: sjsmith
  • Date Submitted: 05/04/2010 5:42 PM
  • Category: English
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Who are you calling a bitch? Well isn’t that what Sullivan is also asking during his essay on testosterone? When a group of friends are together and the level of “T” is rising to uncharted territories and words such as “I dare you,” or “I DOUBLE-DOG dare you”, come off the lips of the alpha male create a picture of who is a bitch. “You better not bitch out”, or “stop being a bitch and do it”, are statements that see a lot of use in the pressure driven world outside our doors.
This testosterone can be obtained either given by substance, by birth, or by environment. “… it’s no big surprise that strutting peacocks with their extravagant tails and bright colors are supercharged with testosterone and mousy little male sparrows aren’t.” (Sullivan pg. 42). The quote puts it into a birth theme for us; peacocks have testosterone and are daring, while the sparrow is a bitch. Right? Another example, lesbian couples the dominant role is the “butch,” and the more “femme,” role is known as the bitch. Is it the form of environment that the role of “butch,” is played because even though the attraction of a lesbian is different the harmony of nature stays the same? As for injection, oral, or some other way to intake the substance of testosterone, the result is more attention to the physical animal we are. Sullivan argues that when he is on his “T,” he is more alert, his mind faster, however his judgment is “more impulsive.”
If these are the positive virtues of testosterone: more physical, bigger, faster, stronger, dominate. Then wouldn’t the strive of the “none Ts’” be to eliminate such a violent hormone? Sullivan quotes Matt Ridley, ““men and women with normal bodies but identical feminine brains,… War, rape, boxing, car racing, pornography, and hamburgers and beer world soon be distant memories…””(pg. 50). What are we waiting for right? Well I agree with the Sullivan on his outlook on a testosterone free world. Sullivan believes that the world would be full...

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