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Today, let’s start off with a multiple choice, fill-in-the-blanker…
If you hang around a particular, video sharing platform for more than three minutes, tops, you’re bound to bump into an oddball who’s “occupation” is best described as _________:
- A. adman
- B. madman
- C. nadman
- D. all the above
If you chose “D”, go to the head of the class.
Typically, his insufferable ads begin with him spilling his spiel…
“Testosterone is what makes a man a man.”
Typically, his “well duh” “revelation” triggers my recollection of an apt, bygone, screenplay retort…
“Geeze, you figured that out Sherlock.”
Actor Jack Lemmon • Character John Gustafson • From film Grumpy Old Men
Seriously, what middle school graduate wouldn’t already know that?
This nameless dude (Hey, let’s call him Sherlock) actually considers himself to be some sorta leading authority on… on…
Well, while I won’t aid and abet his con by working his side of the street, suffice to say, he’s been doing his damnedest to sucker in gullible, roly-poly, past middle age guys, who’ve been “hanging” around whatever love nest(s) they’ve been frequenting.
Anyway, Sherlock appears oblivious to how his speaking with authority is only coming across as off-putting arrogance. And, seeing how he neither trots out a medical degree nor, bare minimum, dons a white lab coat, it’s highly unlikely he’s a qualified physician or even a dietician.
Oh, by the bye, his on cam attire is way too dress casual. He’s nearly in the buff (topless) (and no buff bodybuilder is he).
Truth be told, a Saturday Night Live, hilarious send-up could not upstage what he does in dead seriousness.
To keep it all real, Sherlock has been manufacturing a solution to a problem that’s a non-problem. Stripping this down to the bare-bones, Mother Nature prefers her procreators to be physically fit and under age 40. And therein is the main reason why she slows 40+ guys down.
Yeah, sure, most couples do know that it’s not always about making babies; that there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with people staying active up till the very end.
Yet, Ma Nature would disagree.
Going beyond that, the way Sherlock demeans the male gender is offensive to me. I do consider myself more than a “Y” chromosome.
In spite of that, what’s truly astounding, here, is how Sherlock has, actually, inadvertently, sleuthed the very, driving force that, from time immemorial, has hammered in needless, incalculable human suffering; the bloody, no-win wars, torture, sexual violence, enslavement, ethnic cleansing, persecution, hyperpartisanship, workplace posturing, road rage, anti-maskism, anti-vaxxism, Trumpism, etc.:
“Testosterone is what makes a man a man.”
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Stay Publicly / Properly Masked!
Stay Safe at Home!
Stay Healthy!
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CommonSenseTom 