All Fours

by Miranda July

How weird, she said, that men have almost the same amount of testosterone forever.

It truly isn’t fair that women reach a certain age and hormone production stops, leading to bone and muscle loss, weight gain, loss of libido, etc. and for whatever insane reason in this puritanical country, the good old USA, it’s illegal to prescribe the tiny amount of testosterone post-menopausal women need to carry on. Meanwhile, men enter and leave the world with about the same amount of testosterone as they’ve always had.

“Just give him a second,” Jordi said. “The initial reaction isn’t the eternal reaction.” This was a thing from a Jungian self-help book that we often told each other when our partners fucking hated us.