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[-] AspieEgg 95 points 8 months ago

As a trans person, if either of them had enough estrogen to make any sort of meaningful impact on someone’s body, trans women would be drinking a gallon a day.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Lmao you're right.

[-] businessfish 8 points 8 months ago

still waiting for my soy to kick in :( is it supposed to take years?

[-] kewwwi@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago
[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

As proud as we all are of you and your brave transition which is just so relevant right now, we have actual clinical data and decades and decades of observational data that says is does have a meaningful impact on someone's body.

[-] Lilith_the_serpent@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I am a half, to a gallon per day milk drinker, and I still had to take estrogen to grow boobs.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 55 points 8 months ago

I know it’s pendantic as fuck, but I’m gonna be that person.

It’s affect, not effect.

[-] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 16 points 8 months ago

I have to ask, because my non-native speaking ass thought you were wrong for a moment. Context aside, it "affects" the body and therefore "has an effect on" the body, right?

[-] OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Bingo. Affect is a verb, effect is a noun.

Edit: English is silly and I'm a fool for thinking I had so much as a foothold on the wall of mastery of my native language.

[-] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 months ago

Plot twist: they are both verbs and nouns, but the noun affect only gets used in psychology

From wiktionary:

“New governing coalitions have effected major changes” indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions.

“New governing coalitions have affected major changes” indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over those existing changes.

[-] idiomaddict@feddit.de 1 points 8 months ago

Or a conspicuous and intentional habit (I guess that’s psychological, but it’s not a technical term) like a fake accent/limp.

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago
[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago
[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been drinking plant milk for a few years now and still haven't become a plant girl, that being said I do now feel an unusual twinge of arousal whenever my hand touches the sunbeam coming out of my window, so maybe it's just really slow-acting.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 8 months ago

Or you could be turning into an old-school calculator

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ok lets give that theory a try...

  • 3x3 = 9 OK so far so good
  • 18x6 = 48, I think i'm on the right path.
  • Square root of 27 is 4, obviously
  • Pi is = to 3.141598364278
  • x^3^ + 2xyz^2^ − yz + 1 = ... to be fair I don't think an old-school calculator could get that one either.

Ok so lets check my answers

Well 1 out of 5 is still 25% so you might be on to something.

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 8 months ago

Find some random chemical in plants that shares a functional group with adrenaline or something. Call it phytoadrenaline. Boom you just turned every crossfit bro into a worshiper of soy apparently.

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

I am literally gonna do this.

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 19 points 8 months ago

The soy thing is just a dumb meme right? I'm having trouble imagining a person stupid enough to actually have that concern.

(Just to clarify so no one infers bad intent behind my question, I do think veganism is cool and good.)

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago
[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I've never heard of or heard someone say that. Though I eat meat so I guess I wouldn't be the target audience?

[-] UckyBon@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

I guess that's true. I've never given a thought about veganism until I became one 8 years ago. You'd hear the dumbest things, even how the "vegetables" vegans are eating aren't healthy, but when Miriam from HR eats a salad it's because she wants to lose weight and get healthy.

I was a victim of the meat propaganda as well. I hate there's ads for meat and dairy on every corner. I hate grocery stores for this reason too (all the smiling cartoon animals, apart from the meat there's little real animal about it).

I am fine and I am healthy. When proteinpowderboy 2035 comes and says I am not because I don't eat the chimken I can do nothing more than roll my eyes.

Seeing stuff like this online is funny, because I do relate strongly. I felt the same when I became an atheist, after living the first 20 years of my life in a very religious town.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it's really interesting how easy it can be to not notice stuff like this until you end up in the group. I obviously haven't had the experience around vegan stuff, but have with other things.

Personally I just can't get over the overbearing hostility from some people, both vegans at me whenever i admit that I'm not one, and also other non vegans who are weirdly mean to vegans. But hey, i guess not everyone is gonna get along.

[-] UckyBon@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Guess it's part of the bubble too. People who end up on the other side of what the general population is doing are prone to turn into zealots.

The same happens in a lot of FOSS communities.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's not an accident you don't notice!! You are being intentionally manipulated to be a profitable and guilt-free consumer, but also, you're being told lies you want to believe. Things look entirely different once you successfully pull your head out of your ass and psychologically take responsibility for the atrocity to sentient, sapient creatures that you are causing.

[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 1 points 8 months ago

That's by far not the worst theorie i heard.

[-] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I’ve personally had someone say that to me about soy milk.

[-] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I mean it does seem to contain phytoestrogens which are plant based molecules that act as estrogens so no but I really doubt it would have a noticeable effect.

It also wouldn't surprise me if the phytoestrogens get denatured when cooked. (I do not know what phytoestrogens look like chemically, please correct me if I'm wrong about them likely being denatured)

[-] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 8 months ago

Bold to assume I’m not a plant

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

Bold that we assumed that you weren't

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

...

Can we...

Can we eat them?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

I think, morally, we have to to

[-] pixeltree 17 points 8 months ago

So what you're saying is I really gotta step up my milk intake for knockoff hrt? Noted

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago

I'm seeing a lot of this on nearly every single !vegan@lemmy.ml post, but:

Please report any comments breaking Rule 2 of this community: no omni / carnist apologists.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 8 months ago

Damn. I never thougth about this, but have you ever noticed that this kind of memes are basically a one huge strawman fallacy? No offence OP, just a sudden thought.

[-] WldFyre@lemm.ee 19 points 8 months ago

How is this a straw man? I've literally had people tell me they don't want to eat soy because of the estrogen, while they eat cheese and dairy products.

[-] Soulg@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

They're dumb, soy is great

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago

I mean, any argument with an imaginary opponent is kinda a strawman if you think about it. I'm not doubting existence of such folks tho, there are lots of morons among people.

[-] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No, it is not automatically a strawman. It's only such if it was intentionally contrived to support a particular position. An imaginary person used in a socratic dialog is clearly not automatically a strawman, for example. That would be tantamount to saying Socrates himself (potentially an imaginary person used by Plato for argumentative purposes) is nothing but a strawman.

Not only was the meme not a strawman, it was an incredibly common conversation that happens in real life dozens of times every day.

[-] lenz@lemmy.ml 15 points 8 months ago

My dad literally refuses to touch soy because of this. Yet he dines on dairy products. It’s not a strawman. It’s straight up relatable.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

How dare I post vegan memes in the vegan community right?

All the fucking carnists in the comments with their meatsplaining have nothing better to do.

[-] CheesyFox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 months ago
[-] pixeltree 3 points 8 months ago

Nah there are people genuinely out there spouting this, unfortunately a former friend of mine has become a tate/rogan person and this is one of the weird things spread around in those circles.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago

This cites no sources or anything, so take it with a grain of salt, but this is just an excellent headline: Chinese man grows breasts after eating chicken

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Farmer here, I can explain this. After eating chicken breasts, the seeds passed through his digestive system. When he pooped outside, the breast seeds went on the soil encased in a natural fertilizer. Most people go straight to a toilet, and since breasts can't grow there they never really think about the possibility of growing breasts after eating chicken.

[-] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

I don't think you understood the headline. It's temporal, not casual. More a kind of "slice of life" article. First he eats the chicken, then he grows breasts - presumably the usual way of buying breast seeds, since these days most chicken breasts are GMO and don't yield fertile seeds.

The real tragedy is the apparent spontaneity of the decision, so he probably didn't graft onto the right chicken roots too get the plumpest growth.

[-] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

It's sad there is no picture of him.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

Here's a better cited case of this happening: https://youtu.be/6jYY7Z3iGSE

[-] miridius@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

"doesn't affect your body" is false - it just has different effects

[-] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's part of their culture. Don't take their culture away from them.

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