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2009-11-10 Europe

Scientists Say Boys are Turning into Girls

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Posted by tipper 2009-11-10 02:57|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Wussifation 101. This has been part of public school system since "The New Math". We don't need smart folks in white coats to tell us that.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2009-11-10 03:06|| 2009-11-10 03:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Probably because there are entirely too many boys. We (western civilization) used to kill off a half a generation or so of males in combat until the 1950's or so.

I don't believe the human race has ever had such a huge number of males as it does now.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-11-10 03:08|| 2009-11-10 03:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I wonder how long this has been known. I wonder how much attention it is getting. I wonder how long it will take to do something about it. I wonder how inadequate it will be. I wonder if they will be testing ~~Chinese~~ foreign products for compliance.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-10 03:27|| 2009-11-10 03:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Two-year-old children are being exposed to dangerous levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals in domestic products such as rubber clogs and sun creams,

Why in the blazes are boys wearing clogs? Damn it, when I was two I was already into hard leather Hopalong Cassidy boots or soft leather Davy Crocket moccasins. I blame PETA.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-11-10 09:36|| 2009-11-10 09:36|| Front Page Top

#5 When my Grandson was 5 and in pre-school they had a Visitors Day. He wanted me to visit so I did. The first thing I noticed was that all the toys were feminine oriented. Nothin considered boys' toys like trucks, balls, building blocks, no boys' reading material at all. I asked the director why and she said, "We are teaching the boys to be more caring". I told her they were teaching them to be girls and was asked to leave.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2009-11-10 10:17|| 2009-11-10 10:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Agred to all the above comments, from (ideologically-motivated) wussification to hormonal pollution. Beyond the "funny" side, this is actually dead serious.

BUT, Science! has found a way out of this death-spiral.

So, now, half of my own problems are going to be fixed, there are just those man-boobs left to deal with.

Posted by anonymous5089 2009-11-10 10:21|| 2009-11-10 10:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Homeschool, Boy Scouts and an archery range in the back yard work well for us. Let the boys be boys.

Posted by Iblis 2009-11-10 10:48|| 2009-11-10 10:48|| Front Page Top

#8 And don't forget the youth NRA programs.

I was never so proud as the day when the Middle School principal called me to say my son brought in empty 30-06 brass. (He loves his M1, what can I say?)

Posted by GORT 2009-11-10 11:23|| 2009-11-10 11:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Meanwhile, there's estrogen in our friggin water supply and the FDA is moving as quickly as they can to ban every substance that comes along if it so much as could be androgenic.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-11-10 12:38|| 2009-11-10 12:38|| Front Page Top

#10 My name is Bill and I'm a headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it

Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy

I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud

---- schools no longer as willing to let kids be kids, and especially not boys be boys, then wonder why they have too much energy to pay attention in class. I tend to think of it as foot binding for the childrens' psyche.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-10 12:42|| 2009-11-10 12:42|| Front Page Top

#11 #9 Meanwhile, there's estrogen in our friggin water supply Posted by Mike N.

Well now, little wonder all I want to do is sit around and bitch. It's back to the Glenlivets for me. Never should have left it.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-11-10 12:46|| 2009-11-10 12:46|| Front Page Top

#12 My name is Bill and I'm a headcase
They practice making up on my face
Yeah, I feel lucky if I get trousers to wear
Spend ages taking hairpins from my hair

I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But my ma won't admit it
I'm a boy, I'm a boy
But if I say I am I get it

Put your frock on Jean Marie
Plait your hair Felicity
Paint your nails, little Sally Joy
Put this wig on, little boy

I wanna play cricket on the green
Ride my bike across the street
Cut myself and see my blood
I wanna come home all covered in mud

---- schools no longer as willing to let kids be kids, and especially not boys be boys, then wonder why they have too much energy to pay attention in class. I tend to think of it as foot binding for the childrens' psyche.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-10 14:23|| 2009-11-10 14:23|| Front Page Top

#13 "Meanwhile, there's estrogen in our friggin water supply"

Yes, it is a well-known Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

Posted by Phinetle Squank7785 2009-11-10 14:49|| 2009-11-10 14:49|| Front Page Top

#14 For the douche above attempting to infer that I'm an irrational, right-wing zealot.

Suck on these nuts.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-11-10 14:58|| 2009-11-10 14:58|| Front Page Top

#15 [General Comment has been pooplisted.]

Posted by General Comment 2009-11-10 16:08|| 2009-11-10 16:08|| Front Page Top

#16 Not sure about the double post, must'v bumbed the jukebox.

Posted by swksvolFF 2009-11-10 16:40|| 2009-11-10 16:40|| Front Page Top

#17 you never seen Dr Strangelove Mike N??

Posted by abu do you love ">abu do you love 2009-11-10 16:46|| 2009-11-10 16:46|| Front Page Top

#18 No. I keep thinking I should though. And now I presume I missed a reference to it.

Posted by Mike N. 2009-11-10 22:01|| 2009-11-10 22:01|| Front Page Top

#19 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb is a must see, Mike. George C. Scott, Peter Sellers in multiple roles, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Sterling Hayden. It's a manly movie. Even if they are all a little nuts. As an irrational, right-wing zealot, you'll fit right in. "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the war room."

Posted by SteveS 2009-11-10 22:35|| 2009-11-10 22:35|| Front Page Top

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