Listen up, men. WorldNetDaily columnist Jim Rutz has a warning for you: If you consume soybean products such as tofu or soy milk, you will become gay and, worse, your penis will get smaller:
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.
Of course, none of this is even remotely true:
While it is true that soy products contain estrogen, there is nothing to support that it causes homosexuality or “feminizing” of men who eat them.
Rutz notably fails to quote from a medical source to support his argument, merely referring to generalizations that he spins to his own ends. In searching for any medical reasons for his arguments, I found the opposite.
The official stance of the American Psychological Society [APS] is that there is no defineable single cause for homosexuality, and that it is likely a combination of biological, genetic, and environmental factors….
[The] APS states that there is no evidence for a rise in homosexuality. Rather, there is a rise in people willing to admit they are homosexual.
Talk about having it both ways. Rutz says homosexuality is a choice — and yet it is still caused by consuming soy products. Doh! I can’t win.
Even funnier is the idea that research exists on human males that correlates soy intake with genital size.
LOL! LMAO! The idea that you’d avoid hormones by drinking cow’s milk instead of soy has got to be coming straight from Big Dairy. What a perfect example of propaganda for stupid people!
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It really is odd and disturbing, the things some people to come up with to justify their own prejudices and bigotry. Or how they attempt to convince others of it without any real proof.
there is some truth to the fact that soy does have an adverse effect on young boys, there might be something more to the issue. As evererything we just need to study it more, as for me, if there is even a doubt about soy, my son wont be allowed to touch the stuff.
As a gay man, I have no problem with people expressing concern over the estrogen-inducing effects of unfermented soy products (soy milk and tofu). Yes, there are fear mongering bigots who make such claims, but it doesn’t mean they’re entirely wrong. I strongly doubt that soy can turn a boy gay, or there would be tons more East Asian gay men. I won’t deny that East Asians–especially those born and raised there–do have smaller genital sizes and less muscle mass, on average (yes, there are other factors, but it’s reasonable to attribute some of the cause to mass consumption of tofu and soy mild). Could the non-bigots among us recognize such facts, statistics, and what we do know about estrogen and soy? It’s not ok to generate hate and fear, but it’s perfectly reasonable to question any food product and the affects it has on the human body, even if such affects are supported by stereotypes and are taboo to talk about.