If I were to guess, HN doesn't like your comment because it feels like a certain type of manosphere article. Some sort of cross between self-improvement and advertisement, offering a potential quick fix. Includes a "the masses don't know this, but here is the truth" kind of thing.
I guess that's the "stigma" I referred to. It's not very rational, though. To view it as "self-improvement" would be to not take the symptoms seriously, and I would hope as a society we've moved past that. As for a "quick fix" - well, for some people (certainly not everyone) it is that. It's not without its downsides, though. I'm going to be injecting myself for the rest of my life, a commitment I underook with my first dose (as natural production ceases, so coming off it is not easy). There are major concerns for fertility too, for those to whom it matters
As for "advertising", I don't stand to gain anything from publicly and pseudo-anonymously sharing my experience of a medical treatment. If anything there are risks to doing that.
And as for "the masses don't know this", it's more "your doctor probably won't test you for this". Look up the symptoms of hypogonadism, compare them to those described in this article and observe that the article makes no mention of it. If you know someone suffering these symptoms, and most people do, see if this diagnosis has ever been considered. The answer is probably no.
It's not grey now as it's been voted back up, but it went down to -3 in a few minutes after posting, by far the strongest negative reaction I've had to a comment.
> It's not grey now as it's been voted back up, but it went down to -3 in a few minutes after posting, by far the strongest negative reaction I've had to a comment.
I've long suspected there's some kind of automation going on. I've written a number of inoffensive comments that shouldn't really cause a reaction from anyone, but the score goes down, then back up over a short period. Not sure why there would be an algo for that, but it feels like it.
The cultural left is becoming increasingly like the right in some ways and I’m not sure how I feel. On one hand, this might be helpful because the imbalance between a restrained left and an obnoxious right has been pushing the Overton Window in conservatives’ favor for decades and I’d be happy to see that stop. On the other hand, it upsets me to see other leftists be misinformed. Low T is a real health problem for a lot of men—-this isn’t manosphere bullshit.
I stopped calling myself a liberal in the 90s because I went to Europe for business a lot and liberal, funny enough, means conservative over there. I never really felt progressive fit—-too moderate, because it assumes all you have to do is sustain progress, but that speed isn’t crucial. And I am still on the far left but I feel less at home on the left since the shamefully misinformed reactions to the Simchat Torah massacre. I don’t support Israel’s far right government, but most of the people murdered didn’t either, and watching high school kids in Palo Alto chant a literal genocidal slogan was a wake-up call.
Watching high school kids in Palo Alto chant a literal genocidal slogan was a wake-up call.
Except most likely it wasn't. An actual, "literal" genocidal slogan, that is.
The simple, boring fact is -- whatever import along those lines (that you see in whatever they were saying) probably wasn't what they intended it to have.
Most of the ones using it are simply, as you are correctly pointing out -- grossly misinformed.
If I were to guess, HN doesn't like your comment because it feels like a certain type of manosphere article. Some sort of cross between self-improvement and advertisement, offering a potential quick fix. Includes a "the masses don't know this, but here is the truth" kind of thing.
But that's just a guess.