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what she had been told prior to embarking on puberty blockers and hormonal transformation, and then ultimately at a very young age surgery. And I asked her, so it's well known in the psychological community by anyone with even a modicum of training that negative emotion increases in women when they hit puberty.
what she had been told prior to embarking on puberty blockers and hormonal transformation, and then ultimately at a very young age surgery. And I asked her, so it's well known in the psychological community by anyone with even a modicum of training that negative emotion increases in women when they hit puberty.
what she had been told prior to embarking on puberty blockers and hormonal transformation, and then ultimately at a very young age surgery. And I asked her, so it's well known in the psychological community by anyone with even a modicum of training that negative emotion increases in women when they hit puberty.
So if you measure levels of negative emotion, which include bodily self-consciousness, by the way, In boys and girls, they're pretty much the same. But once they hit puberty, women are more sensitive to negative emotion than men, and they stay that way for the rest of their life. And so there's various theories about that. One is... sexual risk.
So if you measure levels of negative emotion, which include bodily self-consciousness, by the way, In boys and girls, they're pretty much the same. But once they hit puberty, women are more sensitive to negative emotion than men, and they stay that way for the rest of their life. And so there's various theories about that. One is... sexual risk.
So if you measure levels of negative emotion, which include bodily self-consciousness, by the way, In boys and girls, they're pretty much the same. But once they hit puberty, women are more sensitive to negative emotion than men, and they stay that way for the rest of their life. And so there's various theories about that. One is... sexual risk.
One is the difference in body size that emerges between men and women at puberty, because boys and girls are about the same in strength, but juvenile adolescents obviously aren't. Certainly men and women aren't. And of course, sex is way more dangerous for women, obviously. And maybe the world as such is. Plus, they have to take care of infants. So they're more sensitive to negative emotion.
One is the difference in body size that emerges between men and women at puberty, because boys and girls are about the same in strength, but juvenile adolescents obviously aren't. Certainly men and women aren't. And of course, sex is way more dangerous for women, obviously. And maybe the world as such is. Plus, they have to take care of infants. So they're more sensitive to negative emotion.
One is the difference in body size that emerges between men and women at puberty, because boys and girls are about the same in strength, but juvenile adolescents obviously aren't. Certainly men and women aren't. And of course, sex is way more dangerous for women, obviously. And maybe the world as such is. Plus, they have to take care of infants. So they're more sensitive to negative emotion.
And in women, more than in men, negative emotion tends to take the form of bodily shame and self-awareness. And there's all sorts of reasons for that as well. Maybe one of them being that women are judged more harshly on their looks than men are. And it's a big difference. Anyways, this is well established and no one who's trained is unaware of it.
And in women, more than in men, negative emotion tends to take the form of bodily shame and self-awareness. And there's all sorts of reasons for that as well. Maybe one of them being that women are judged more harshly on their looks than men are. And it's a big difference. Anyways, this is well established and no one who's trained is unaware of it.
And in women, more than in men, negative emotion tends to take the form of bodily shame and self-awareness. And there's all sorts of reasons for that as well. Maybe one of them being that women are judged more harshly on their looks than men are. And it's a big difference. Anyways, this is well established and no one who's trained is unaware of it.
Women have more anxiety disorders, more depression worldwide. These are cross-culturally stable findings. Everyone knows this. And it's known that it emerges at puberty. And I asked Cole, I said, well, you know, you were unhappy with your body. What she told me was she had had fantasies of having a body like Kim Kardashian, very curvy, right?
Women have more anxiety disorders, more depression worldwide. These are cross-culturally stable findings. Everyone knows this. And it's known that it emerges at puberty. And I asked Cole, I said, well, you know, you were unhappy with your body. What she told me was she had had fantasies of having a body like Kim Kardashian, very curvy, right?
Women have more anxiety disorders, more depression worldwide. These are cross-culturally stable findings. Everyone knows this. And it's known that it emerges at puberty. And I asked Cole, I said, well, you know, you were unhappy with your body. What she told me was she had had fantasies of having a body like Kim Kardashian, very curvy, right?
And she realized early on, correctly or incorrectly, it doesn't really matter, that she was likely to have a boyish figure. Now, she's a very attractive girl, and men have a very wide range of personalities. what would you say? Types. Absolutely, absolutely. There's a wide range of feminine beauty.
And she realized early on, correctly or incorrectly, it doesn't really matter, that she was likely to have a boyish figure. Now, she's a very attractive girl, and men have a very wide range of personalities. what would you say? Types. Absolutely, absolutely. There's a wide range of feminine beauty.
And she realized early on, correctly or incorrectly, it doesn't really matter, that she was likely to have a boyish figure. Now, she's a very attractive girl, and men have a very wide range of personalities. what would you say? Types. Absolutely, absolutely. There's a wide range of feminine beauty.
So she had no, there was no reason for her to be concerned on that front any more than any other girl might be. And I asked her if anyone had ever told her that an increase in negative emotion was common in puberty for girls, or that it often took the form of body dysmorphia, because that's extremely common and might even be the norm in pubertal women. It's extremely common.
So she had no, there was no reason for her to be concerned on that front any more than any other girl might be. And I asked her if anyone had ever told her that an increase in negative emotion was common in puberty for girls, or that it often took the form of body dysmorphia, because that's extremely common and might even be the norm in pubertal women. It's extremely common.