Testosterone

by Kinara Phillips · 01/04/2026
Published 01/04/2026 12:35

Ladies

Don’t you hate that

Testosterone specific

Topical air quality

That thrives in spaces even we want to be in?


Ugh,

It’s so annoying

Competed with the bro-ing

That suffocates the air

With natural T


There are men who do not reek

Of the testosteronic flair

But those are hard to find

And oftentimes escape our minds


We overlook men with

Estrogen high

But complain

About the testosterone


With its eyes

And its mouth

And its way too loud shouts


It bleeds into the culture

And pretends like it suffers

But testosterone

Don’t know suffering

Not like estrogen

Not like the proestrogen

And the tampons

And pads

And cups

Collecting our guts


No, suffering?

That’s an estrogen thing

It’s even an intersex thing

It’s a trans woman thing

It’s a nonbinary thing


With uncooperative genitals

We still hold nations in our hands

While you

Testosterone

Swing lazily in the wind.

#gender dynamics #masculinity #power dynamics #testosterone

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