The Testosterone Rules

[boethius]

lol I just got a Rendezvous With Rama vibe.

Hash seems more Heinlein than Clarke to me.

[TheReal_ND]

Defo

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hash does not have a daughter. That much is clear.

[Okeefenokee]

My daughter is most formidable child my wife and I have faced. We have four boys. She has been running circles around what they presented us with since her birth. Faster at everything. More daring. More assertive. They were tornadoes. She's a hurricane.

Putting her to bed months ago, she said her first sentence, "noooooo, paaaapaaaa." None of the boys had the knowledge to make such a strong argument at that age.

[Ex-California]

My daughter is most formidable child my wife and I have faced. We have four boys. She has been running circles around what they presented us with since her birth. Faster at everything. More daring. More assertive. They were tornadoes. She's a hurricane.

Putting her to bed months ago, she said her first sentence, "noooooo, paaaapaaaa." None of the boys had the knowledge to make such a strong argument at that age.

Its crazy man. My daughter knew how to use weaponized emotions since day 1. I swear she talks as much at 2.5 as my son did at 4. The sentences came so quickly as well

[Okeefenokee]

Well, yeah. Chicks love to yack.

Yack yack yack yack yack yack yack yack. Would you love me if lost a leg?

[Martin Hash]

Hash does not have a daughter. That much is clear.

My daughter travels. She's in India/Nepal right now. (She knows the rules though.))

[SuburbanFarmer]

Hash does not have a daughter. That much is clear.

My daughter travels. She's in India/Nepal right now. (She knows the rules though.))

So you would so prefer an 'alpha' kid taking her out on a date during her teenage years than a 'nice kid'? Which one do you think would get her further out on the edge of morality?

I don't have a daughter myself (thank Christ), but I'd never EVER let the alpha jock out of my sight. The beta kid I could just intimidate and buddy up to, to keep him in line.

[DrYouth]

Alpha and nice aren't necessarily mutually exclusive...
Although there are forces that oppose them.

You should check out Dasher Keltner's "The Power Paradox"...
I think he pretty much nails it.

[Haumana]

My daughter is most formidable child my wife and I have faced. We have four boys. She has been running circles around what they presented us with since her birth. Faster at everything. More daring. More assertive. They were tornadoes. She's a hurricane.

Putting her to bed months ago, she said her first sentence, "noooooo, paaaapaaaa." None of the boys had the knowledge to make such a strong argument at that age.

I have two nieces like that. One is 27 with two boys of her own and the other is 7. Both are iconoclasts who dare you to box them in with any sort of fence because they will just kick it in. My wife is like that too. I love to watch them all just give that look of like "Oh yeah??" and just start popping bubbles of expectations. All three are some of the most solid humans that I know, meaning that their idea of self cannot even be wobbled let alone rocked. Foster that shit, Okee. It is something special.