Headed in the wrong direction

Uh-oh.

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products.

via World-o-crap via How to save the world.

When the flame dies I guess Tomoe will have no one to blame but herself for cooking so many macrobiotic meals with all that gayonizing soy.

The fact that there are people out there who would even think of writing something like this drivel is even more demoralizing than some of the things I saw at the "EcoPro" eco-products exhibition this weekend where I was giving tours for English speakers.

My favorite was the Sony booth. They had their Walkman on display as an "eco-product" which certainly made me curious. When I asked the rep what the "eco" point was, he shifted uncomfortably as he explained that the headphones reduce ambient sound, allowing people to listen to their MP3s at a lower volume - thus saving a little bit of energy. Unfortunately, all that energy saved by people around the world using Sony headphones was probably canceled out by the wall of fifteen plasma TVs they had playing for the entire eco-exhibition.

It wasn't all that bad. There were some good products as well - but Sony's booth seemed much more popular (almost as popular as the Coca-cola booth that was giving out free bags of plastic "eco" junk).

(Full disclosure: I don't have a Sony Walkman, but I do have an old iPod - purchased used of curse. I have nothing against people enjoying a news pod-cast as they ride their bike to work, but there are enough functioning used ipods and MP3 players out there already that there is really no good reason to buy a new one. And it is certainly not "eco" - at least not as eco as the booth that made sure their spokes-models wore the smallest shorts possible in an effort to reduce material and laundry detergent)