Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the Brain
(Disclaimer: I have no idea what the author&#x27;s political views are, so my comment is not about the author &amp; his article specifically but rather about a general phenomenon I have come across various times.)<p>&gt; Even though his podcast is firmly rooted in the masculine space of “body optimization”<p>While there&#x27;s no doubt that self-optimization topics seem to attract more men than women, why is it that people who are into gender, equality and &quot;toxic masculinity&quot; topics – and, for the sake of this argument, let&#x27;s assume the author is one of them – always have to put a label on everything, such as &quot;This is male, this is female.&quot; They seem to be falling into exactly the trap they are criticizing.<p>The author goes on to say:<p>&gt; Huberman is a lot less “bro-ey” than his fellow influencers. There’s a real gentleness and care to his delivery. The packaging is less aggressive, but the content does not stray far from Silicon Valley’s love affair with the tweaking of healthy human biology.<p>Ah, so gentleness is not associated with masculinity, but aggressiveness is, got it. Ergo, women must be gentle but not aggressive. Oh and &quot;body optimization&quot; is clearly not for females.<p>Why are they reinforcing the same stereotypes[0] they are fighting? Why can&#x27;t we simply say<p>&gt; While body optimization influencers often come across as aggressive and demonstrate little care for their delivery, Huberman&#x27;s podcast…<p>? There, gender stereotypes and labels avoided.<p>[0]: I am aware that studies indicate that there is some truth to this specific stereotype in that – on average – men are more non-agreeable, women a bit less so (i.e. more agreeable). But this is a statistical average – an individual&#x27;s personality traits can be far away from the average, and so I think stereotypes like &quot;X is clearly male, and Y is clearly female&quot; are doing us a disservice. Can&#x27;t we all just be individuals?