If you're looking for material, just head over to Google News and put "study" and "testosterone" or "estrogen" in the search field.

Fun reading for hours.

Funny you should mention bar fights, actually.

Another bombshell here.

Let's just rename this place 'Battle of the Sexes HQ'.

This just in... Men enjoy sex.

When I scoffed at Ace's stats on bi-sexual coeds make-out teams or something, he broke a beer bottle and challenged me to a fight.

I mean really. Do we actually have to do studies on things that are so obvious?

I couldn't live without my best buddies.

And my girl friends mustache is so much softer than my husbands.

All women are gay.

I wish. Wait. . .

Scientists now suspect that hanging out with our girlfriends can actually counteract the kind of stomach-quivering stress most of us experience daily.

I always suspected that naked pillow fights relieved stress.

Well, Scott, let's have a naked pillow fight and put that theory to the test.

I love how, no matter what the result of a study, the conclusion is always that the female response is superior. In Allah's first link, women are "physiologically cooler" and "probably better negotiators" because they show no hormonal response to the experimental conditions while men's testosterone level alters. If it had been the other way around, then without a doubt, women would have had "specific adaptations for cooperative behaviour" and "innate responses to social interaction" while men would be "lumpish freakin' dolts."
I even recall one study from years ago in which women's brains showed twice as much activity, as measured by increased blood flow, as men's in performing identical tasks that was just described as "women think harder" - never "men 100% more efficient"!

Tell me, Allah, isn't it kind of killing you to give away all this golden material? In the back of your head, aren't you thinking: "Damn, Ace is hitting doubles and triples, and I could have knocked every damn one of them out of the park"?

No. I'm thinking, "Ace is hitting doubles and triples, and I would have hit a groundball to short."

"It's an ancient survival mechanism left over from the time we were chased across the planet by saber-toothed tigers."

I've never understood this.

It's not like, after we progressed past the hunter/gatherer stage, the utility of "fight or flight" completely disappeared.

"Fight or flight" continued to be pretty damn useful well into recorded history ... It's pretty useful today, actually.

Now me, I likes "flight."

Don't sell yourself short, Allah. My daughter wanted pancakes on Sunday, and I almost couldn't make them because I kept thinking about your Wesley Clark photoshops and laughing while stirring the batter, pouring, etc.

No possible way to answer the question, "What's so funny, daddy?"

We all miss you, man. At least throw us a photoshop a week!

Whaddya need a woman for? You know what you need her for? In my time? To see if there's an animal behind you. Can't see alone, got no eyes in the back of your hear. You take two eyes, happens to be a lady. You say "lady, will you look behind me for a while"? That was the first marriages, was "will you take a look behind me"? and she was like "Ok, how long you want"? and you said "Forever, we're married".

I always suspected that naked pillow fights relieved stress.

Naked?

How about tasteful lingerie a la Animal House?

Pure stress relieve. Just ask Bluto.

Er, relief.

Oh, tell me about it Lapsed Leftist.

The stuffed animals.
Still kills me, in my minds eye.

'lambs-eat-ivy, kid'll eat-ivy-too'

He could start a new blog with just re-runs and it would still kick all kinds of ass.

What was Wesley's little friend's name, again?

Christina Fortescue?

Just rename your site "Ace of Oxytocin" and be done with it already.

The real truth is - that women make up these studies to convince themselves they don't feel better when their partner is a sympatico male.

That would explain the sob-sisters who love their hormones more than their ability to think. The feedback they get from other sob-sisters they've befriended unfortunately reinforces to them the rightness of their feelings. A whole group of them would be called MoveOn.org. or the Democratic Party. (like there's any difference).

However, in a weak defense of the silly and indefensible assault on men in the language usage of the article: an acquaintance of mine (a male professor of English) years ago, was hired by a very large medical association to go through all of their standards and practices and publications in order to find and re-word all derogatory references to the female patient. Young as I was, I was amazed at the revelations he shared. The horribly mean and extremely biased view of women perpetrated by these professional men in professional journals certainly found its way into the mainstream.

scientists have known for years that aggressive behavior in animals is sparked by elevated testosterone

This explains why Bill Ardolino has to shave his back twice a day, too.

Alas, another testimony in support of lesbianism. Who needs men anyway? Onwardly the 'sisters' march to the sperm banks. A thought - what kind of man contributes to a sperm bank?