What’s the matter with Texas?

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http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2011/09/15/whats-the-matter-with-texas-i-think-it-has-something-to-do-with-testosterone-but-im-not-sure-what/


What’s the matter with Texas? (I think it has something to do with testosterone, but I’m not sure what…)


I spent yesterday in Houston on business. Excuse me, I meant “bidniss.” I had to do some interviews with physicians around town, so I spent a good bit of time in the rent-a-car driving from airport to center, center to next center, center back to airport, etc. And sitting in traffic on the freeway. And turning around and trying to find the exit I missed because accurate road signs aren’t the city’s top priority. Or a medium priority. Or even a low priority.

Anyhow, before this trip, I don’t believe I had ever heard a radio advertisement for anything testosterone related. Ever. But by golly, yesterday I heard dozens. Literally, dozens. I found a sports talk station as I was rolling out of the Hertz lot and I just left it on (because I like sports and also, it’s far less brain-damaging than music radio is these days) and honest to sweet baby Jesus, there were at least two testosterone spots in every commercial break. I am not exaggerating, not even for effect. Testosterone treatments, testosterone centers, testosterone supplements – I kept expecting an ad for a testosterone-themed water park to surge from the speakers at any second. Never happened, but I was out of the car conducting client interviews for two or three hours so it’s possible that I missed it.

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I hate to speculate, honestly. And I’m certainly not going to go door to door asking these folks if they’d like to talk about their peckers. (I’m especially not going anywhere near the Governor’s Mansion with that question.) All I can do is report the facts as I see them. And the facts are these: I’ve been all over the US and I heard more concern about mojo levels in my first five minutes in Houston yesterday than I have in all my visits to all the other states in America combined. Whether this means they have too little testosterone, too much testosterone or are just insecure about the size of their Lyndon Johnsons I can’t say, but I’m worried for them.

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I don't listen to the radio. are there testosterone ads on the radio you listen to? or as the writer suggests, the radio ads are mainly in Texas?

[Hoosier Daddy]

1. It's ON FIRE!

[Demeter]

2. No Water, No Brains

no guts, no glory.

[Paladin]

13. Feel Better With That Bit Of Texas-Bashing Out Of Your System?

Just to remind you and the usual bunch of Texas haters here at DU, 3.5 million Texans cast votes for Obama. Many of those same people are now suffering horribly from the drought. There's not one single Goddamned thing funny about it......

[Demeter]

20. Remember the bumper stickers?

Drive fast, freeze a Yankee?

All those people who left the paradise of Michigan to find any kind of substandard work in Texas...because Texans and other Western conservatives in DC had destroyed the northern manufacturing base?

And now California and Colorado and all deserts in between have their designs on the Great Lakes....thank God for Canada to put that out of the realm of possibility. The Great Lakes are not a source of water, merely a reservoir to maintain the local water table.

Texas should get its own house in order and not ship its idiots to DC to foul up the rest of the nation.

[BlueJazz]

3. I've never heard any on my stations around town. Maybe all that pollution...

...(in Houston) is having an effect on the men's testosterone and this is their way of dealing with the ..ah..problem.

..OR....the men there feel they have to be Bulls to "Be a REAL man" ????

[Synicus Maximus]

4. In the last six months or so I have heard testosterone ads in

Georgia and New York.

[n2doc]

5. They are nationwide

I hear (and try to avoid listening to them) them all the time on the sports stations. Along with debt relief scammers and various military organizations. They seem to have taken the place of the viagra copiers.

[emulatorloo]

6. They are nationwide. Low testosterone causes irritability and lack of mental focus.

Among many other symptoms. It presents the same way as depression presents itself in men.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

19. The classic "grumpy old man" suffers from low testosterone.

It helps women with focus and drive to do things, but the doctors are scared to death of aggressive, hairy women. It
also helps with bone density which is important for older women at risk of osteoporosis. However, our society has demonized testosterone, due to the prosecution of rich athletes like Roger Clemens. Pro athletes and body builders take completely insane amounts of testosterone and then wonder why their bollocks shrivel up. They never talk about proper dosages or therapeutic benefits.

[WolverineDG]

7. I've seen national ads for that on TV (like CNN, MSNBC, etc)

so it's not just Texas.

Thanks for bashing caring! :hi:

dg

[ensho]

8. seems like, first there was fertility clinics on every street corner, then

Viagra ads everywhere and now testosterone ads everywhere

where there is smoke there is fire.

is there a major problem with male sperm? male vigor? or is this just a way for the Barons to make money off of men?

[Honeycombe8]

9. I'm in Dallas. I listen to the radio quite a bit. I've never heard an ad for testosterone.

Maybe it's a Houston thing.

But if you were listening to sports & country, those are rightwingnut stations here in TX. Rightwingnuts in TX are very much into manly things. But I've never even heard of testosterone supplements and wouldn't have thought they're legal. News to me! Testosterone is a hormone...I thought hormones had to be prescribed.

[rainbow4321]

18. I've heard them on KRLD a few times

One was really dumb...it was right after the Mav's won the championship and they started the commercial out "congratulations Mavs..." and then went right into pitching testosterone. Bizarre. Almost like whoever made up the commerical said "let's try to make them think it is a Mavs commerical so they don't change the channel.."

Having said that, the national commerical for testosterone has played waaaayyyy more times than I have heard any local ads for it. It's the one with the guy in the forefront and the guys shadow outline next to him, the voice over saying "remember when you..." and lists off several things like had more energy, had more feelings for the one you love (paraphrasing that part) and then the pitch for testosterone starts, it ends with the guy saying "you've got a life to live, stop living in the shadows". It would play several times during any given show.

[Ezlivin]

10. Brief exposure to the chemicals used in hydraulic "fracking" lowers testosterone

In my area alone there are over 4,000 gas wells and a dearth of manly men.

Note: I just created the link between low testosterone and fracking chemicals; it is a complete fabrication on my part. But, hey, I could be right since we don't know which chemicals they are using.

[Ishoutandscream2]

11. Christ, more bashing

This shit never ends here.

[Dover]

12. Nationwide testosterone levels are decreasing? Well that's kind of interesting don't you think?

I've just read that men's testosterone levels go down after they become fathers. It kind of helps to prepare them for a different kind of role and experience of love that doesn't involve them being 'sexual' per se, but more inclined to experience their more feminine attributes of nurture.

So while it might be a bit scary for men who are actually experiencing this testosterone deficit, particularly if testosterone levels are low nationwide (if that's even true...rather than something invented by the big pharmas) then perhaps we are going through some important cultural changes that requires less testosterone and more nurture. Perhaps we're giving birth to something totally new!

Nature is remarkable in its ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Some animals produce less offspring if conditions threaten their food supply, for instance. And we forget that we are animals and part of nature. So these changes don't mean something is 'wrong' necessarily.

[cordelia]

14. Nothing.

Texas is a fine place with many great people.

[KatyMan]

15. If you can't find your way around Houston

you either can't read or have less than zero ability to understand directions coupled with no sense of direction.

[seabeyond]

16. just like they go after women for cosmetics to make money, they are going after mens manhoods

be it, not good enough the size you are, to needing more testoterone.

i read, as there are issues, they are being hyped and given to men that dont need it and they cause problems.

and it isnt just texas, it is whereever man is to make a buck from them. it is sad for those feeling the need to hurt their health so they can measure up in their own mind, and it is a blessing for those that actually need it.

[Doc Holliday]

17. I just made a short road trip

through a big chunk of Texas (Lubbock to Austin and back) and heard one of those ads. It was on one of those AM stations that run "programming" such as "The Best of Rush" on the weekends. Also heard pretty much the same ad when the wifey and I made a trip to Albuquerque last year....again, on an AM station. Some so-called "dietary supplement" which is supposed to put the lead back in your pencil and a spring in your step. It all depends on who's sponsoring the program. There are tons of commercials like that on AM.

I get the feeling that the OP's writer had her tongue crammed way into her cheek when she wrote that piece.