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Stoics Needed

Can’t we repress our emotions just a tiny bit?

David French
Apr 26
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Rudyard Kipling. (Photograph from Getty Images.)

There is something beyond broken about our nation’s discourse on masculinity when the most popular cable news host on the most popular cable network produces a special on American men in crisis and it features testicle-tanning. Yes, feast your eyes on a man on a pile of rocks, groin aglow with radiant red light:

The picture is rooted in two highly dubious assertions. First, that male testosterone levels are falling dramatically. And second, that exposing your genitals to red light can boost testosterone production. 

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