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Testosterone Poisoning

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MANLINESS! Do you have what it takes to be manly in this day and age?! Well, do ya, punk?! We don't just mean plain old "macho", weaklings! You're on the Internet now, where the truly manly men eat dinosaur bones and razor blades for breakfast, brush their teeth with angle grinders, catch bullets with their furrowed brows, strangle rhinoceri with their mustaches, communicate exclusively with their fists, eat iron and shit a chain, overemphasise their heterosexuality (or Manly Gaiety), juggle flying helicopters, sneeze meteors and belch tornadoes! ... and so forth. Contrast Tastes Like Diabetes.

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MANLINESS! Do you have what it takes to be manly in this day and age?! Well, do ya, punk?! We don't just mean plain old "macho", weaklings! You're on the Internet now, where the truly manly men eat dinosaur bones and razor blades for breakfast, brush their teeth with angle grinders, catch bullets with their furrowed brows, strangle rhinoceri with their mustaches, communicate exclusively with their fists, eat iron and shit a chain, overemphasise their heterosexuality (or Manly Gaiety), juggle flying helicopters, sneeze meteors and belch tornadoes! ... and so forth. This trope is about parodying the concept of "manliness" in an absurd, exaggerated fashion. It is, simply, Badass made silly. The Darwin Awards website uses the term to describe people who died attempting to pull off absurdly masculine stunts -- the sort of things that would end up on this trope page. It was even used in the title for one death where a man lopped his own head off with a chainsaw. Note that, in reality, men with either high or low levels of testosterone are actually more aggressive and violent than those with normal amounts of testosterone. Besides, everyone knows that Real Men Wear Pink. The Trope Namer was Dr. Helen Caldicott, outspoken campaigner against nuclear weapons and the arms race. Editor's Note: Remember, this trope is specifically for parodying excessive manliness. When excessive manliness is played straight, it is Rated "M" for Manly. Compare Memetic Badass, Awesomeness Is Volatile. Not to be confused with the actual act of putting self in harms way to prove one's manliness: that one is covered by Macho Masochism (although overlap is common). Also compare Impossible Genius, when it's a character's intelligence rather than their manliness that enables them to do absurd things. Contrast Tastes Like Diabetes. Examples of Testosterone Poisoning include: