Thanks to Bria for sending this my way. The article is old, but it’s some pretty amazing fear-mongering from a popular right-wing news blog thing. I’d never heard of ‘em before, but Wikipedia says it’s big. The guy says he’s warning parents about the risks of endocrine disrupters, but he gets it all wrong. For starters, apparently soy foods are the only source of estrogen mimics out there. Not biphenol-a, not DDT, not whatever DES might still be floating around out there. Just soy. Take a look:
Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.
So, what is all that hippy food doing to our children? He mentions the toll endocrine disruptor can do to one’s fertility, and the sharp uptick in cancer amongst people who have been exposed to synthetic estrogens (not naturally-occurring phytoestrogens, like those in soy) early in life. But all of that pales in comparison to the fear of effeminizing little boys. And, apparently, here’s not difference between beingintersex, being a ‘feminine male’ and being gay. No matter that the assertion that gay men have a testosterone deficiency/estrogen surplus was disproved the moment someone developed a handy way to test hormone levels. Giving gay men extra testosterone just makes them want to have more gay sex, since testosterone tends to up your sex drive.
Honestly, I couldn’t stomach reading all 5 parts. I have a short attention span, and I’d need to artificially extend it to wade through all that psudoscience. Plus I can’t even figure out who this guy’s misinterpreting, because all his citation either lead back to the home page of the site, or to a 404 error. Which I guess says it all.
found you via feministe
this is so crazy i almost don’t believe it. do people really think like this? what is going on…?!
Comment by feministgal — May 19, 2008 @ 8:21 am
the meat and dairy industry also uses this claim to scare people away from soy because they are a competitor
http://www.queersunited.blogspot.com
Comment by queerunity — May 19, 2008 @ 1:53 pm
@ feministgal
Apparently, he even upset a bunch of his own readers, though I’m not sure how many were calling bullshit and how many were thanking him from breaking the liberal media’s wall of silence around the conspiracy to turn kids gay with tofu and soy dream.
This guy seems to be much more extreme than most; I think Rebecca’s article sums it up nicely. People have legit concerns about their kids health, but those can get lost in the gut reaction some folks have to the prospect of their sons being somehow emasculated.
Comment by Ethan — May 19, 2008 @ 5:11 pm