2006-12-17 - 5:05 p.m.

Wheee. You know the furore over soy products supposedly being 'feminising'? Now, apart from the obvious - namely,

. People being girly or gay is treated like... jeez, I dunno, bone cancer. Guys, didn't you get the memo. Gay = okay. I mean, if the idea of the precious childrenz being infected with teh gay horrifies you so much, I can only assume that the reason for this horror is that they might be treated badly, right? I mean, surely the people who would squawk about "GAY SOYBEANS WILL DEVOUR OUR SONS' FACES" wouldn't be homophobic. So, it follows that they should all join PFLAG/advocate for gay rights. Hoorah! Problem solved, and yet again, science saves the day!
and
. There was another squawk a few years ago about the horror and evil of soy; I've read quite a bit on it and from what I can tell, soy is no more damaging than any other vegetable provided you don't eat it excessively (every single meal and drink soy-based, c'est à dire),

I gotta couple things to say, as I always do!

1 - My first response is a titter. Heehee. Vegans are girly. They eat lots of soy. Vegan men often are this way because they've analysed society's consumption of animal products and reject it (unhealthy and/or oppressive), so even though there are many self-righteous vegan men, and there would be some who were misogynists, it sort of makes sense we'd see more men in the vegan population who analysed society's views on gender/sexuality and rejected them just as much (as they are equally or more fucked up than society's animal consumption [IMO] in many ways). Ergo, cry some folk, the vegans' beloved soybeans CAUSE gayness!

2 - The first time I had a specific soy product and all following similar experiences (eating tofu, putting rice milk on my corn flakes, etc) happened AFTER my first gay experiences (first "am I gay?", first kissykissy [A GAY ONE], first gaysexx0rz etc). Does this mean that whereas consumption of soy-based products cause homosexuality/gender-deviant tendencies in males, homosexuality/gender-deviant tendencies cause consumption of soy-based products in females? I THINK IT IS PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS THE CASE.
(What? My methodology is, I'll bet, better than theirs!)

3 - "Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!" ... you would prefer the formula-fed babies are given a MEAT-BASED product? GROSS.

I'll be the first to admit that I know very little of plant biology/enzymes/WHATEVER(toldyouididn'tknowmuch) so I'll leave the scientific bits to people who actually know what they're talking about. Maybe it's right, who knows! Those're just my silly little giggles over the whole thing.

Personally, if you're worried about a base-food that is getting into too many of the processed foodstuffs, I would worry about CORN SYRUP and FAKE SUGARS. I'm not a nutritionist but they are still pretty fucked up.

Random notes:
- I think this entry is possibly more egotistic/boring than many others! Hoorah, I am the quintessential blogger!
- Every time I typed "cause" I ended up with "caused", because my fingers SUCK. They do this with several words; my brain is working BY ROUTE. Very annoying!
- OMG I MENTIONED TEH GAY SEX.
- And yeah, I have no idea what's with the sarcastic netspeak. Because I found the ideas behind the article silly?