Posted on 01/03/2009 6:02:56 PM PST by Pyro7480
Even if it can be shown that high-levels of synthetic estrogen correlate with high rates of intersexed fish, would you make the leap from correlation to causation?
I recall a while ago there were frogs with limb deformities, and the reports on its cause ranged from the Ozone Hole to pesticides to Global Warming. Ultimately it turned out to be a fungus or something natural, and the issue was dropped from the press.
This issue is a political issue as well as a technical one, and each political force will be trying to influence the pool of available data, and will try to steer research into areas that sport their POV. This makes it hard to figure out what's really happening, especially since we can only use other people's data. It's much easier to measure cosmic-ray induced upsets in a static RAM in orbit.
There are the religious people, the “whole and natural” people, Luddites in general, pharma companies, the “free sex” people, feminists, both sides of O’Riley’s Culture War, and probably many other groups with a stake in feminized fish and rodents with small testes.
“I was at a young age when the “original” feminist book “Our Body, Our Selves” came out. And it did not follow organic natural common-sense understandings for females; but rather the feminist politboro mentality. Rather unfortunate, IMHO, as it has perpetrated a third-person “room with a view” perspective for females as opposed a genuine understanding of a woman’s body and its ability to procreate as something quite miraculous. And how truly unique each woman’s body is.
I still cannot understanding how anyone could possibly think The Pill or EST, cookie cutter style, could apply to the individual woman. Each woman’s body is so uniquely ... unique.”
It always amazes me that women who will buy nothing but organic foods will easily pop the Pill, and be injected with Gardasil. And that’s just the liberal “environmentalism” aspect...
More imp’ly I don’t understand why the pseudo-feminists so adamantly cling to contraception and abortion as the sacred cow of equality. I suppose they are if you define “equality” as being “the same as” — they want to be just like men - not the givers of life, being able to walk away from the responsiblities of parenthood.
As a pro-life feminist, I know that being “equal” does not mean “the same” — why must we change who we are to fit into society? Society should change to fit the needs of women. First and foremost that means valuing our role — one of the most important is our life-giving abilities.
Every single one of the founding foremothers of feminism would be appalled that a small minority traded away respect for life, motherhood, and non-violent solutions for the “right” to reckless sexual relationships and the key to the executive washroom.
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