in general I am annoyed as a Person Who Has Taken A Physiology Class at the way our culture treats neurotransmitters and hormones as humours
oxytocin is love! serotonin is happiness (good)! dopamine is happiness (evil)! estrogen is femininity! testosterone is masculinity!
and like yes there's a kernel of truth in each of these, I'm not saying SSRIs and Adderall and HRT aren't real things, but all these chemicals have multiple functions, all are not fully understood and still have ongoing research, and there's never a linear "the more [chemical], the more [character trait]" relationship
people painting their banal opinions science-colored is one of my pet peeves. really gets my cortisol up
Whenever I see this logic, my mind just turns to serotonin syndrome.
Rhabdomyolysis sure is happiness, huh? :^)

