Men Sad

“Maybe men are happier before adolescence because their testosterone levels are lower.”
 — Why are women happier than men? Before all you broads jump in to start telling me that they’re not, let me just alert you that Science is on the case and has discovered that “low expression of the gene monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) is associated with higher self-reported happiness in women” and that testosterone “may cancel out the positive effect of MAOA on happiness in men.” So the next time you see a happy little boy running down the street or playing in the park, remind yourself that soon enough he will be a sad and sullen adult male whose joys are too briefly taken and whose sorrows are always present but rarely spoken, filling him with a shame he can’t quite understand. I bet that makes you ladies super-happy, doesn’t it?

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