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She had a theory that the fear of getting in trouble was what made her not as good a programmer and that, in fact, it was all linked to testosterone, and that was why there were more guy programmers than women. It was a very hazy theory, and she didn't like it, but she had pretty much convinced herself it was true, although she couldn't bear to think of sharing it with anybody, because it was a lot better to think that there were social reasons why girls didn't usually become code monkeys than to think there were biological reasons.

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Maureen F. McHugh

After the Apocalypse

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Griffin Hansbury, who was born female but underwent a sex change after graduating from college, has another well-informed view of the powers of testosterone. __he world just changes,_ he said. __he most overwhelming feeling was the incredible increase in libido and change in the way I perceived women._ Before the hormone treatments, Hansbury said, an attractive woman in the street would provoke an internal narrative: __he__ attractive. I__ like to meet her._ But after the injections, no more narrative. Any attractive quality in a woman, __ice ankles or something,_ was enough to __lood my mind with aggressive pornographic images, just one after another_Everything I looked at, everything I touched turned to sex._ He concluded, __ felt like a monster a lot of the time. It made me understand men. It made me understand adolescent boys a lot.