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Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity
myrdos2 writes "A host of common chemicals is feminizing males of every class of vertebrate animals, from fish to mammals, including people. Many have been identified as 'endocrine disruptors' or gender-benders because they interfere with hormones. Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys, which may offer a clue to the mysterious shift in sex ratios worldwide. And a study at Rotterdam's Erasmus University showed that boys whose mothers had been exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea sets rather than with traditionally male toys. It also follows hard on the heels of new American research which shows that baby boys born to women exposed to widespread chemicals in pregnancy are born with smaller penises and feminized genitals. It is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born as girls instead in the US and Japan alone. And sperm counts are dropping precipitously. Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that they have dropped from 150 million per milliliter of sperm fluid to 60 million over 50 years."
On behalf of my fellow males I'd like to say:
...shit
They are impurifying our precious bodily fluids!
Woah, little fella, your mom was exposed to PCB's wasn't she!
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IT still an almost male-only field. It is simply the most manly of jobs.
Aliens have began the process of converting the majority of the human population to females for their future breeding programmes.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Finally an excuse for my weak body, small penis and my interest for tea. And sadly my limited interest for breasts.
Not only is it destroying our masculinity, but it's making my nails really dirty and I've just had them done :(
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welcome our forthcoming female overlords.
Oh wait ...
I played with old electrical transformer as a kid, practically bathing in PCBs. It didn't hurt me any. People see me comin', and it's "Lock up your wives, your daughters and your good silver, Joe's a-comin!"
I'm the roughest, toughest, meanest, leanest, rootin-est, tootin-est, sharp-damned-shootin-est man you ever had the bad luck to meet! I can drink longer, fight harder, shout louder and piss further than any other man in the Yukon, and anyone who doesn't believe me can step outside!
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Too many people on this rock anyways. Imagine the disparity in China, which is, by and large, and enormous polluted sewer.
Daddy, I see a troll!
...named Oprah?
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Interesting that the fall in sperm count goes along with the increasing availability of porn - as the 'spilling of seed' increases the number of sperm left per, um, 'dose' goes down. Now that we have the internet I suspect the figure will slip below double digits within a decade.
Should be enough for anybody.
What this really means is that us old guys have bigger dicks than you nelly boys. Now get off my lawn, pansy.
On the one hand you take life too seriously, and on the other, you do not take playful existence seriously enough. Seth
If there's any argument that could get red-blooded, meat-eating, women-banging Republican men interested in environmentalism, it's the thought that pollution will turn their sons into gay little girlie men with small dicks.
Next, we need to convince them professional sports and country music lowers sperm count.
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This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
So stop drinking from them, already!
Communities heavily polluted with gender-benders in Canada, Russia, and Italy have given birth to twice as many girls as boys...
Well, that explains Russia's booming mail-order bride industry.
That's right. In some cultures, the boys will throw tea sets and pretend to ride dolls around like they were transportation, and the girls will serve imaginary beverages out of toy truck bodies. Personally I think our culture is a bit more sensible.
Um, would that be the swishy flaming queen sort of thing, or like the tough and sensitive gay guy gorgeous women are just dying to jump into bed with until they find out? Because if it's the latter, someone should bottle that stuff; they'd make a fortune selling to Slashdotters alone.
(a third alternative, the "physically attracted to men" sort of behavior, probably wouldn't go over so well).
Think about it, I'll call it the "Swedish Problem" wherein the entire country is filled with hot blondes...
I don't know if I would go as far as calling it a "problem".
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Hey now, you gotta respect the religious right. They were makin' up stories that break most of the laws of physics and science before we even knew they existed!
Now that takes dedication - precognitive ignorance.
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You are probably right about the dangers of people interested in "correcting" the problem, but in truth, homosexuality is demonstrably more than a human problem and always has been. But where it comes from causes outside of nature and can be traced to environmental problems and pollution, it would seem obvious that the answer is to PREVENT rather than to attempt to cure.
I hope they don't ever "cure" homosexuality. Gay men are funny -- they know it, we know it, they exploit it, we exploit it. It makes life more enjoyable that gay men exist and I wouldn't want to change that. Gay women, on the other hand... well... as a straight male geek, I find rejection in any form to be... disappointing.
True, but they almost always have guns and knives and very rarely attend tea parties.
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It's funny, because I can imagine if you balked at working with the chemicals, somebody would tell you to "stop being a pansy." Joke's on you, male stereotypes!
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