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Plastic Chemicals 'feminise Boys'   

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Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys, making them "more feminine", say US researchers.





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tuoni, on 11/21/2009 9:51:41 PM
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Oh boo-fucking-hoo! Talk about bullshit.

Seems anytime males aren't killing, raping, and pillaging, this shit resurfaces.
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FleckX, on 11/21/2009 11:15:19 PM
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I feel that though. I was an avid Lego builder as a kid and I am kind of effeminate.
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lankthetank, on 11/21/2009 11:47:54 PM
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This to me doesn't make complete sense.

I live near U of R and I had a professor who did research with pthalates.

One thing is very clear: pthalates mimic estrogen in chemical shape, and estrogen receptors DO accept these.

It's good that these are banned in many countries. It's just not a good thing.

The thing that doesn't make sense is that is the pthalate molecule behaving like estrogen, or is it inhibiting estrogen reception???

If it is inhibiting reception, these boys WON'T develop properly, but it seems like they'd actually develop LESS female characteristics (since it blocks estrogen reception).

I don't know a lot about it, but I think the perspective of the article (news article, I didn't read the peer-reviewed article) is wrong. It just doesn't make sense (or rather, seems extremely coincidental) that a synthetic hydrocarbon not only mimics estrogen, but acts like a super-estrogen....
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DeoKanon, on 11/22/2009 4:03:21 PM
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lank,

i don't think pthalates inhibit estrogen hormones, it sounds like both happen to be competitors for estrogen receptors with pthalates being a better inductor than estrogen in key metabolic pathways that are responsible for feminine traits.

but i don't think the results of this study are very conclusive. these little boys might not necessarily be becoming "feminised", they could just be tired. or some environmental factor is making male kids less active than those of previous generations.
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lankthetank, on 11/22/2009 7:46:35 PM
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DeoKanon wrote:
lank,

i don't think pthalates inhibit estrogen hormones, it sounds like both happen to be competitors for estrogen receptors with pthalates being a better inductor than estrogen in key metabolic pathways that are responsible for feminine traits.

but i don't think the results of this study are very conclusive. these little boys might not necessarily be becoming "feminised", they could just be tired. or some environmental factor is making male kids less active than those of previous generations.


Ahh competition..that's what i was meaning to refer to (it's been 2 years since I graduated with my bio degree, and while I like being able to reference it, it's practically useless).

I didn't mean inhibiting the hormones, I meant inhibiting the reception of the hormones, which I think is competition.

But yeah, seems we're in agreement that "feminization" isn't the word or the necessary phenomenon we're looking for.
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DeoKanon, on 11/23/2009 5:11:10 PM
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i read the article twice and i can't figure out how they came to the conclusion that these boys are "feminized".

never even once talked about these little kids playing doll house and tea.. you know that shit little girls play thinking they are princesses lol.
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