bluegreen17 (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
bluegreen17) wrote2003-07-03 01:10 pm
bluegreen17) wrote2003-07-03 01:10 pm
vegetarianism,albert shweitzer and testosterone
there's a brief,but interesting discussion on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
oxhead's journal about vegetarianism,hitler,and albert schweitzer and a bit more...
feeling better today. i dont' know about anyone else,but i feel like a slave to hormones. after about five days of psychomoody* pms,my period arrived a little bit early...but better that than what i've been going through the last few days! ugh.
my understanding is that during pms,women have a higher level of testosterone than usual (and i believe after menopause as well...does this mean old ladies are bitchy and horny and aggressive?). i sure notice the increased libido because i enjoy that kind of energy...for me,horniness is not a call to have sex,which i know sounds strange. i just enjoy the energy.this is where i don't fit in with the sex-focussed majority nor the asexual folks. i'm neither. yeah,i'm weird and i'm special and at my age i don't have such a need to be 'different' but i guess i am anyway!
well,back to my point. during pms,with the extra testosterone, i also get extra aggressive,frustrated and angry.
so,sisters,perhaps this can help us better empathize with our fellow humans who have a lot of that hormone in their systems! yes,i'm making generalizations,but i generalizations are based on some truth.
sometimes it helps me to remember my testosterone theory when someone is tailgating me or is driving fast. but i'm generally a lot more tolerant of this sort of thing when it's a teenage boy than i am with adult men and definitely more so than with women.
though i'm sure some women have more testosterone than others.
well,i just enjoy theorizing. so be sure to sprinkle my words with a good dash of sea salt.
it's another gorgeous day in the neighborhood. it's been pleasantly hot,but it's glorious because every day this week we've had this heavenly breeze. that makes all the difference.
it makes me wonder if my winter depression is more lack of open windows and fresh air than it is of sunshine,because this spring when we had lots of rain,i was perfectly fine.
and i loved it when it rained at night when i went to sleep.
gonna have lunch and get my butt in gear and off to work. i wrote this while waiting for lunch to cook and i'm white rabbiting,so...
*coined by the wonderfulsophy
oxhead's journal about vegetarianism,hitler,and albert schweitzer and a bit more...feeling better today. i dont' know about anyone else,but i feel like a slave to hormones. after about five days of psychomoody* pms,my period arrived a little bit early...but better that than what i've been going through the last few days! ugh.
my understanding is that during pms,women have a higher level of testosterone than usual (and i believe after menopause as well...does this mean old ladies are bitchy and horny and aggressive?). i sure notice the increased libido because i enjoy that kind of energy...for me,horniness is not a call to have sex,which i know sounds strange. i just enjoy the energy.this is where i don't fit in with the sex-focussed majority nor the asexual folks. i'm neither. yeah,i'm weird and i'm special and at my age i don't have such a need to be 'different' but i guess i am anyway!
well,back to my point. during pms,with the extra testosterone, i also get extra aggressive,frustrated and angry.
so,sisters,perhaps this can help us better empathize with our fellow humans who have a lot of that hormone in their systems! yes,i'm making generalizations,but i generalizations are based on some truth.
sometimes it helps me to remember my testosterone theory when someone is tailgating me or is driving fast. but i'm generally a lot more tolerant of this sort of thing when it's a teenage boy than i am with adult men and definitely more so than with women.
though i'm sure some women have more testosterone than others.
well,i just enjoy theorizing. so be sure to sprinkle my words with a good dash of sea salt.
it's another gorgeous day in the neighborhood. it's been pleasantly hot,but it's glorious because every day this week we've had this heavenly breeze. that makes all the difference.
it makes me wonder if my winter depression is more lack of open windows and fresh air than it is of sunshine,because this spring when we had lots of rain,i was perfectly fine.
and i loved it when it rained at night when i went to sleep.
gonna have lunch and get my butt in gear and off to work. i wrote this while waiting for lunch to cook and i'm white rabbiting,so...
*coined by the wonderful
sophy
no subject
Did you know that Schweitzer is credited with starting what's known as the "Second Quest for the Historical Jesus"? He was quite the historical theologian and influenced a lot of liberal Protestant thought in the 20th Century especially Rudolf Bultmann ( and mine, too).
no subject
no subject
I, too, am a slave to my hormones.