hahaha holy shit i formed the idea that there are enormous sex differences in perception of threat and safety that nobody is allowed to talk about, least of all me, *without even knowing* that Xanax is the most prescribed psych drug by a huge margin
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Replying to @chaosprime
Wait, what does Xanax have to do with sex differences?
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
if women have amped up anxiety compared to men and society has changed so that structural ways of coping with that are low status and economically punished, one would expect women to routinely experience crippling levels of anxiety that have to be medicated so they can perform
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Replying to @chaosprime @AndreaMedaris
therefore one would expect Xanax to be prescribed at an enormous rate and to be prescribed much more often for women than for men
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Replying to @chaosprime
Right I guess that was the missing info I was wondering about. Is it prescribed more often for women?
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
yeah, 2x as often per the Random Googling Citation
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Replying to @chaosprime
Interesting! Still think there is a LARGE nature/nurture question here given all our shit about how we have to protect women and teach them how to avoid getting raped and murdered basically from birth, but certainly I'd agree that the perception of safety is different eventually
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
one can ask that, yeah, i don't want to spend a lot of time on the question of whether millions of years of evolution completely ignored the much higher biological value of women for purposes of their threat avoidance and therefore it's all because of society's messaging
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Replying to @chaosprime
sure, I imagine it's both, I just see bugs when I see bio/evo explanations because the response to that is almost always "oh well, can't do anything about that, byeee!"
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Replying to @rainherself @AndreaMedaris
yeah, people do like to do that, i'm more interested in it as understanding what we're dealing with than assuming the start state is the end state (or better yet is the *proper* state)
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and of course am getting comparably bug-seeing about the tabula rasa "if we refuse to look at the cards we were dealt maybe they'll go away and we can just have the cards we wanted" flip side
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