Because WorldNetDaily has never found anything anti-gay that is just too crazy to print, we bring you this amazing new revelation about the cause of homosexuality!! It will surprise, shock and stun you!! Cover the children’s eyes!!
In this startling new report called A devil food is turning our kids into homosexuals and based on nothing whatsoever, columnist James Rutz reveals the shocking truth about a demon product invading our kitchens and turning our little boys into revolting and dangerous homosexual predators. What is this menace, you ask? Soy!!
Yes, if you feed your little boys soy based formula, they will prance and swish and want to marry John Stamos. And if that isn’t frightening enough, your swishly little nancy boy will have a small penis, will reach puberty much later and will be infertile.
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.
Now it is true that soy does have compounds which are very similar in structure and function to estrogen. And while estrogen levels in adult males do not have any correlation with orientation, it may be the case that estrogen levels pre-natal or in early childhood development may have an effect on the eventual sexual orientation of some male fetuses or infants.
But Rutz’ contribution to the discussion has all of the value that the Weekly World News brings to questions of national importance. He presents no research to connect soy to orientation or feminization or anything else, really. But he does help illustrate the tools used by anti-gay media outlets to generate hostility towards gay people: fear, speculation, and pseudo-scientific posturing.
UPDATE
Scientific American has now weighed in:
Eating Soy Will Not Make You Gay (We Swear)
Did they even have soy milk for babies when I was nursing in the 70’s?
I need to call my mom and find out.
Oy Vey…Now I thought I heard it all. ROTFL
Will these anti-gay folks stop at nothing to trump up the reasons why people are gay? What’s next? Walt Disney cartoons make you gay? Given how a lot of gay folk like Disney…never mind. I’m not going there.
Hey Scott! I was born in ’66 and I know for a fact my mother never used soy. This is just too unbelievable! LOL!
Personally I prefer rice milk than soy milk. Still, that ludicrous commentator attacked tofu, and that is unacceptable.
Without getting too graphic, I am not convinced that homosexuality is related to smaller penis size. I see the start of a great research project…. .
I think Dan Savage also questioned the small penis size = gay rumor before. And I’m also pretty sure that the amount of estrogen you have is inversely proportional to same-sex attraction. Males or females. But perhaps I’m just miss-remembering the studies that I’ve read on it.
From Simon LeVay’s compilation page on the biology of sexual orientation:
Penis size. According to a re-analysis of old Kinsey Institute data derived from about 5,000 men, the penises of gay men are slightly but significantly longer (6.46 vs. 6.14 inches measured along the top surface) and fatter than those of straight men (Bogaert and Hershberger 1999).
Comment: These findings are open to criticism because the measurements were made by the subjects themselves at home and not by an independent observer. (Gay men might be more tempted to exaggerate than straight men, or they might be more aroused by the sight of their erect penises, thus causing stronger erections.) If correct, the result is inconsistent with the simplest form of the prenatal hormone hypothesis, which would predict gay men’s penises to be smaller. There are various ways one could make the findings fit the hypothesis, but it may not be worth dwelling on this until a replication study has been done—which could be a while.
Well, for the last three years, I’ve not been able to touch any bean derivative and that includes tofu, soy milk, meat substitutes, etc.
It’s not due to any gender-changing property, but the fact that it causes me to develop gout, my ankles and knees swell and I’m unable to walk.
Yet I’m still as gay as pink ink!
So much for that flawed theory…..
I grew up in a vegetarian household. No other “explanation” for my sexuality fits. It must be the soy. This explains so much. Now I can call my parents and tell them that it was their fault afterall.
I grew up in a vegetarian household. No other “explanation” for my sexuality fits. It must be the soy. This explains so much. Now I can call my parents and tell them that it was their fault afterall.
Ya, I wonder how long it will be before ex-gay organizations start blaming certain foods as another reason why someone is a homosexual. Or even causes someone to fall into homosexual behavior. Imagine the list of foods of which to avoid that “causes the sin of homosexuality” passed around at ex-gay meetings.
Thanks Timothy for bringing this to our attention. I guess I’m enjoying this one way too much! :p
I’ve seen a lot of this, and it’s totally ridiculous, of course.
I’ve pointed this out before, but anti-gay is almost always anti-woman as well, and this piece proves that, too. “Feminizing” is a bad thing. And watch out for your daughter starting her period earlier–her childhood is over then!
I thought devil’s food was a rich chocolate cake. Who knew it was tofu? I have an awesome recipe involving both, and I’m sort of craving it now.
By the way, no gay man is underendowed, at least according to chat rooms, right?
*runs away laughing*
I’m telling all of my trans friends! Soy for everyone! 😛
Actually, I’d be more worried about the increase in intersex bass in the Potomac and other rivers. If there are man-made chemicals in the water affecting the sex of fish (and other wildlife, such as polar bears), one can only wonder what effect the water pregnant women drink may be having on prenatal, developing children.
I remember reading an article which touched on this tangentially quite some time ago while in a waiting room at my doctor’s office. It was not about the “gayification” effects of soy, but it emphasized possible FUD campaigns by industries which might be threatened by the increased soy intake (got milk?). Essentially, the suggestion was that if you drop a few hints here and there about the possibility that pseudo hormones in soy products could cause men to develop female characteristics and (gasp!) reduced penile size and performance, then that would be enough to scare many off trying it.
This was back when soy products such as milk were really not common yet. I wonder if the companies that grow and market soy products (from all indications very healthy products btw) will chime in at some point or if they will consider the source and just laugh it off. For the record, if soy formula even existed when I was a baby, my mom did not use it. I guess I came by my gayness honest 😉
Well, this would explain Asia’s remarkably low fertility rate.
Oh wait…
I thought homogenized milk made homos.
What did tofu ever do to this guy? Sounds to me like he needs a scapegoat for his tiny penis and this was the only thing he could come up with.
I guess Starbuck’s is going to need warning labels on their soy lattes.
When I order a cup of coffee are they going to start asking:
“Would you like room at the top for homosexuality”?
Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out comments on the WND soy story here.
Without getting too graphic, I am not convinced that homosexuality is related to smaller penis size. I see the start of a great research project…. .
Actually I think there was a study out there that already proved that gay men have slightly larger penises than straight men. I’d try to Google but am at work.