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For those who do, in fact, have too little of the male sex hormone, the signs can be subtle and nonspecific. Among them: loss of muscle mass and decreased fitness performance.
It is desired by many transgender women who have undergone the changes of pubertal masculinization. Some virilized traits remain though (such as body hair, a hard jawline and an enlarged larynx ), due to the fashion in which virilization affects a body's physiology.
Finally, these authors suggested that dismantling toxic workplace structures which encourage harmful masculine attitudes is a vital step in reducing fragile masculinity. [4] According to Stanaland and colleagues, less rigid expectations of what masculinity should be could allow for a more resilient form of masculinity. [24]
Women are also four times more likely to develop chronic PTSD compared to men. [44] There are observed differences in the types of symptoms experienced by men and women. [43] Women are more likely to experience specific sub-clusters of symptoms, such as re-experiencing symptoms (e.g. flashbacks), hypervigilance, feeling depressed and numbness.
Likewise, other scholars argue that this treatment of black masculinity as an adaptive response privileges White, middle-class masculinity as simply "masculinity": "Ultimately, this places White masculinity at the center of the definition of ideal masculinity and reduces Black masculinity to a flawed circus-mirror reflection of it."
The weirdest thing about these symptoms, though, is that most of us don’t see them as symptoms at all. Since he looked into the data, Salway has started interviewing gay men who attempted suicide and survived. “When you ask them why they tried to kill themselves,” he says, “most of them don’t mention anything at all about being gay.”
Internalized sexism is a form of sexist behavior and attitudes enacted by women toward themselves or other women and girls. [1] [2] Internalized sexism is a form of internalized oppression, which "consists of oppressive practices that continue to make the rounds even when members of the oppressor group are not present."
Treatment is hormone replacement therapy of testosterone. [11] [12] [13] In females, hypoandrogenism consist of loss of libido, decreased body hair growth, depression, fatigue, vaginal vasocongestion (which can result in cramps), vasomotor symptoms (e.g., hot flashes and palpitations), insomnia, headaches, osteoporosis and reduced muscle mass.