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Separately, are they all good? Testosterone has a lot of negative side effects, and I know I certainly wouldn't mind having about half as much. Jawlines and fiber have similar issues when focused on in the wrong way. Eating healthy, feeling good, and looking good are mostly orthogonal to those trendy behaviors. If they work for you then great, but there are other options too, and I don't think she's saying that you shouldn't want to eat healthy, feel good, and look good. Indeed, she explicitly says that fibermaxxing is bad because it replaces a healthy diet. She agrees with at least some of your goals and really only (potentially) disagrees with the implementation.
Luckily (not really though) for you, you already do. Average testosterone levels have halved over the past 50 years due to a variety of modern poisons we consume on a daily basis.
I have a big problem with people like the unelected "eSâfety comissioner" and others brainwashing our young men into believing their primary natural hormone is a negative thing. You'd never see this happen the other way around (ever heard a woman say she has too much estrogen or her estrogen is bad? Ever heard a government agency push that?), but society in the West is more misandric than it's ever been - primarily because of women like her who are paid to demonize men and their culture and interests, and then by the highly feminized poisoned men who help them spread their bs.
Men with lower testosterone levels are more anxious, less confident, prone to group-think, have more mental health issues, sexual dysfunction, fertility issues, bone loss, social reclusiveness and awkwardness, low muscle mass and strength, fatigue, and the list goes on.
These highly estrogenized youth are fighting against an unfair disadvantage placed on them by governments who refuse to regulate industry and trying to restore their bodies to healthy levels. This is probably intentional too, because lower-T men are easier to control and tend not to think for themselves or resist a tyrannical government who is abusing their power and pillaging the working class of their earned wealth - which is a perfect description of the current Australiân govt.
It's no coincidence that birth rates have plummeted to extinction level in countries that are affected by this.
> Indeed, she explicitly says that fibermaxxing is bad because it replaces a healthy diet
You're making excuses for her and I have no idea why. Fibermaxxing IS healthy, that's the entire point of it. It's literally about eating natural whole high-fiber foods like fruits and vegetables instead of eating highly processed garbage, and supporting a healthy gut. She's actually advocating for an unhealthy diet and demonizing a healthy one. Not only that, but she's demonizing it because it's supposedly "manosphere" - not anything to do with health. Did you look up what those who do it are advocating for? Quick google search might help you dispell some of your preconceived notions.
Anything can be pushed to an unhealthy extreme. Exercise as well - you could physically exert yourself to death. But that's not what these trends are advocating for in general and only outliers go to the extremes. I'm surprised she didn't say "exercisemaxxing is misogynistic manosphere toxic masculinity" as well, would fit right in.
This whole thing would be far less frustrating and despicable if it were balanced - if they were going after the highly toxic and destructive feminist culture that is a far cry from the original, healthy feminist movement. If they were, I wouldn't even bother to talk about it, because at least I could say "fair enough - maybe their motives are genuine and they really are trying to resolve a divisive culture problem", but they don't. Because the people pushing this are part of that toxic new-wave feminist group and they have no interest in genuinely solving a problem, their interest is in shutting down the men who speak up against the corrupt government in Aus. Their interest is in controlling men because the govt sees men who think for themselves as a threat. No surprises that a government that has one of the largest percentage of women in it in the world would be pushing this slop though. It's also funny that whenever women are given positions of power they abuse their power to shit on men. There's a good lesson to be learned here.
This is the most disingenuous argument I've seen in a while.
That sentence does not describe a shift to eating healthy. Some of looksmaxxing is reasonable, but a lot is unsafe or being upset about things you can't really change. And nothing in there was "feel good", do you think having abnormally high levels of testosterone is "feel good"?
Go back and look at what you originally quoted.
They specifically said replacing a healthy diet is harmful. There's nothing wrong with that statement, you strawmanned it to hell and back.
If you think that statement is talking about something different than what kids are actually doing, then say that instead of saying the claim is wrong.
And you still didn't explain how anything they called bad equates to "feel good".
> mens testosterone levels are half or 3x lower than they used to be on average
The contribution of obesity and diabetes to that is a lot and might be 100%. Trying to do diet things to directly change levels really seems like a bad idea because 99% of ideas probably do nothing and anything effective could overshoot so easily. The quote also called out kids self-managing synthetic hormones as a bad idea for that, and it is.