"That was before they knew much about long-term soy use."

[jackofallgeeks]

OK, yeah, This is fairly far-fetched fundamentalist hysteria. (Amusing note: 'hysteria' and it's derivatives stem from the Greek word for 'womb' because the Greeks believed it was a distinctly feminine phenomena.) The guy blames everything from obesity to homosexuality to leukemia on soy products.

Though this guy goes a bit overboard, there are discussion points about the estrogen content of soy on Wikipedia and This BBC article, which are interesting things to think about.

I've been on kind of a hormone kick since that article on the effects of pregnancy on fathers, and it's rather entertaining to wonder exactly how much one's hormones effect who one is and how one behaves, and how much changing or altering or manipulating those hormones could change the person in question. All of which contributes to a number of half-formed, pseudo-scientific Snippets bouncing around my head.

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[jackofallgeeks.livejournal.com]

Actually, that's one of the places that his theory breaks down -- that is, following his logic, you'd have to be taking steroids or some other form of testosterone to warp your hormone-centric predispositions. And, as I think might have been noted on Slashdot (where I first found the article), there's been a proportional rise in the number of homosexual women as homosexual women. (It was also noted that this is quite possibly just a function of increased social awareness and acceptance, not an actual increase in numbers.)