Professor and Researcher. Feminist trying to understand how to end war.
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Megan’s work is broadly aimed at reducing war; it bridges feminist theory, critical security studies, and critical/post development studies.
Featured: Testosterone and toughness: the Pentagon declares war on manopause
The United States’s self-declared Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has announced that men in the US Army over the age of 30 would undergo mandatory testosterone screening and have access to testosterone therapy if they chose. In doing so, he declared that he was committed to ensuring men stay on the “leading edge of lethality”.
The implication is that Hegseth has identified low libido, mood swings, fatigue and loss of pubic and underarm hair as the enemy - symptoms linked to lower testosterone. At the same time, boners, acne and irrational aggression - all associated with high testosterone - are apparently essential ingredients for winning America’s wars.
It is an unfortunate argument for a Secretary of Defence/War in his mid-forties serving under a commander-in-chief in his eighties. If testosterone is now the measure of military effectiveness, perhaps the first men due for reassessment aren't privates— they’re the Pentagon’s own senior leadership. Read more
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