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Giles

Testosterone is a great equalizer. It turns all men into morons.

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer ‧ 1997

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker jokingly calls testosterone an equalizer because it supposedly makes all men foolish. This is a sweeping disparaging generalization, not an established claim about biology or every man.

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