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I am a proud father. Both my daughters got good degrees. But better still, they smoke, go to pubs and drink Guinness. I suspect they may sometimes drink rosé or prosecco behind my back, but I soldier on. You see, if you are the lone man in an otherwise all-female family, it’s important to make sure overall testosterone levels don’t decline too far. Kanye West found much the same thing when he lived with the Kardashians.

It is a man’s ‘job’ to be stupid – to take rapid, risky decisions with high variance outcomes in the hope that they pay off

And at least neither of my daughters likes Taylor Swift. So that’s another small win for the Y chromosome. Is it just me, or is there something odd with the culture when

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