I thought I was a feminist, but it turns out my house had a radon problem
7 Comments Published by Kyso Kisaen September 29th, 2007 in Feminism, For the ladies, HUH!?, Mutterings Of The Disturbed, Reproductive RightsMy Favorite Anti-Feminists (TM) ask, is it possible that feminism, like many form of cancer, is a by-product of pollutants in our environment?
No. Really.
Could environmental factors contribute to feminism?
Environmental factors like good mentors and strong role models, or environmental factors like when the Communists put all that fluoride in our water?
I’ve read and heard several articles (especially over the past 10-15 years) dealing with the growing amount of evidence covering the unpopular topic of the effects of both hormones from the pill and hormones from our insatiable appetite for synthetic goods upon both animals and human beings alike. Though the abovementioned industries persist in the “tale” that their products are 100% safe for both our environment and us, the mounting weight of evidence demonstrates otherwise.
Ever see a phase diagram for water? After a certain point, called the critical point, water vapor and liquid water become indistinguishable from one another.
Phase diagram from ChemGuide
Mrs. Elliot exists on a similar point in the political spectrum. At some point of sincere but completely batshit passion, a person stops being distinguishably right and left and is just frothing. This allows Mrs. Elliot to be a Conservative Christian Anti-Capitalist Anti-Abortionist Environmentalist. As you can imagine, such a brain potpourri encourages Mrs. Elliot to use the always crystal clear narrative method known as stream of consciousness.
Some years ago now, a widely publicised study carried out on genetic gender “mistakes” leading to a rise in reproductive disorders (among other problems) within the polar bear population alerted society to the dangers we’re storing up for ourselves from nearly half a century of the pill and synthetics…
if we wish, as workers for our Heavenly Father, to address this issue and advocate for change, we do need to consider the whole question of feminism and the masculinisation of womankind as more than a rise in Communist Feminist Ideology. We should rather consider a combination of the former, quietly and unsuspectedly helped along by this frightening new evidence for emerging environmental influences–a Frankenstein’s monster created by our own hand as we meddle with the delicate balance of God’s creation and His natural order.
In 1953, Saran Wrap, the same material the military used to wrap its fighter planes in to keep them fresher, longer was approved for use in food packaging. Then, the sexual revolution happened. Coincidence? I think not.
If a true, healthy gender identity is to be rekindled, any environmental influence that hampers both the feminine and masculine identity in men and women must be promptly removed from the equation.
It’s not that women don’t like patriarchy, it’s just that polystyrene and lo-dose estrogen combine to suppress the hormone femmase in women, and the polystyrene doesn’t do anything good for the masculase in men. Since femmase and masculase are the God’s Divine Will hormones, without them the estrogen and testosterone present in both genders is helpless to regulate properly gendered behaviors and the next thing you know, Satan’s polymers have triumphed over good once again, leading to women in the workforce and the end of civilization as we know it.
Legislating against the reproductive pill and the use of unsafe plastics and their intrusion into our everyday lives on such a vast scale will be a good place to start.Though these suggestions may seem extreme, if a factor has been shown to present danger, are we not morally, ethically, and spiritually beholden to act?
Sure, but it’s 2,000 years after Christ and we still have war. If you can’t get humanity to agree to stop blowing each other up because we are beholden to prevent danger, then you sure as shit ain’t getting them to give up Tupperware and Step 2 brand indestructible mailboxes.
Pop quiz: Which one of these two things sucks up more resources and does more damage to an environment? Left: A soldier at a burning oil field. Right: An ugly-ass mailbox whose production creates estrogen-mimickers as a waste product, allowing for a tenuous argument that urinating while using birth control pills is as harmful as pouring used motor oil into a stream
Remember, everything belongs to God, and he wants you to live Biblically. Specifically, he wants you to combine low-impact living with enormous family size. If this seems extreme, and possibly counter-productive, then you’ll probably need to start with regular colon cleanings and detox diets to flush the feminism away.
Is she actually arguing that water contamination is causing us to lose our fight against the communists? Or has she decided to update Dr. Strangelove?
I’m sorry, I must be reading this wrong, but it seems to me that you are trying to say that feminism and sexual equality go against god’s will, and that they are products of chemicals??? This is ludicrous. Furthermore, this is exactly the kind of thinking that makes me hate religion so much. I’m sure it’s obvious to every sane person that the gender revolution was caused by the increased education of women, and living standards generally; not satan in the form of saran wrap. Please e-mail me at your nearest convenience. I’m sure I’ve misunderstood you.
Is she actually arguing that water contamination is causing us to lose our fight against the communists? Or has she decided to update Dr. Strangelove?
I believe she’s taken the information that contaminated water supplies are causing reproductive system defects in animals and made the logical conclusion that if polar bears can get fucked up by tainted food chains, then so can we. And of course if that’s true, then it must be that physical damage to the genes in our naughty bits is what gave women the ker-azy idea that they’d like reproductive rights, pay equity, property rights and educational opportunities.
It’s a short essay, so I’ve not yet deciphered why the feminists have to be Communists as well.
Genevieve, if you want an email, leave an address. And if you’re a regular reader of the blog, you’d probably have figured out that I just made up the God’s Divine Will hormones, which you’ll find in no reputable biology book.
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Oh no, my birth control pills are creating hermaphroditic polar bears!! Damn communist feminists..ruining the world for innocent polar bears everywhere! I’m sure that all these disorders are only caused by slutty feminists not doing Gods work by having twenty kids..not big corporations with incredibly lax environmental standards.
I think Aphra Behn addressed this issue in her feminist writings.
The REALLY confusing thing for me in this, is that plastics and factory farms and perticides and even the bc pill all cause a lot of real (and FAKE) estrogen to be in the environment.
Not Testostcerone.
Soooo….how exactly could MORE estrogen be making women more masculine? Hmmm?
She doesn’t even have the basics of her argument down.
On the Other Hand: All this free floating estrogen is causing CANCER rates to go up, especially breast cancer. Corporate America wants to raise awareness about Breast cancer, not DO anything about it, like limit the production of plastics, or use of pesticides.
I find ot extremely telling that once a woman HAS breast cancer, she is told to avoid plastics (esp. for storing or eating food) and go Organic, and steer clear of pesticides in the home.
If that is good advice when you HAVE cancer, seems like those might be good ways to AVOID cancer too!
(Same thing with dogfood: when your dog becomes gravely ill, make homemade food for him to prolong his life. But until then: industrial waste for Fido! For God’s Sake don’t try to make real food for your dog; even though you feed yourself and your children, the dog’s dietary needs are just too complex for you to figure out!(snark))
You got that too? Have we stumbled on evidence that heavy metals poisoning causes dyslexia, perhaps? After all there has to be some reason why we both thought it said something so cracked.