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"Thousands of babies who should have been boys are being born as girls"
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 2008-02-28 12:11
Should this not be a pivotal agenda for MRAs? Governments seem to be unwilling to tackle or even acknowledge this problem. Article here. Excerpt:
"And, whether or not this is the cause, male sperm counts have been dropping precipitously both here and across the world.
Studies in more than 20 countries have shown that average amounts have fallen by well over half in the past 50 years, from an average of more than 150 million per millilitre to 66 million.
The result is that men are now less than half as fertile as hamsters.
The counts are continuing to plunge by two per cent a year, and no end to the decline is in sight. At this rate, the average man will be unable to father children within decades.
Increasingly the sperm crisis is being blamed on a whole host of chemicals, not just synthetic oestrogen, but a wide variety of substances that have become ubiquitous in daily life.
Scientists at Rotterdam's Erasmus University have found that boys born to mothers exposed to PCBs grew up wanting to play with dolls and tea-sets.
And research at the University of Rochester in New York State has shown that the male children of women exposed to phthalates have smaller penises and other signs of feminisation of their genitals.
Communities exposed to high levels of these and other gender-bender chemicals, from the Great Lakes of North America to the Russian Arctic, have been found to give birth to twice as many girls as boys.
This may offer a clue to the cause of a mysterious shift in the sex of babies worldwide.
Normally 106 boys are born for every 100 girls, in what is thought to be nature's way of compensating for the fact that males were more likely to be killed hunting or in conflict.
But increasingly this ratio is slipping - it is calculated that 250,000 babies who would have been boys have been born girls in the U.S. and Japan alone."
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Women are in even worse situation
Actually, this is nothing compared to how terrible the things are in females reproduction sphere. Sooner or later we are bound to come to Artificial Womb.
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Single men is the only social group benefited from feminism.
Sperm Patrol
I can't really relate to this story, because all I had to do to get my ex-wife pregnant was to look at her across the room.
I had to pay to get her fallopian tubes tied because even having a normal conversation with her was to risk having another baby.
The male sperm decline is not the issue.
Men are just picking the wrong partners...
And, American women are not especially desirable anymore.
Also, why make babies anyway when you can have free access to a vagina and just "pump 'em and dump 'em?"
Of course, you may be one of those Chivalrous guys looking for a lifetime of domestic servitude.
Go for it.
It's called gender equality.
But they're not turning into males!
Indeed, something like 1 in 3 human adult females is sterile due to this or that. That certainly is not good, at least not long-term; maybe short-term with our planet's pop'n so high, but if it isn't corrected, it will get to the point of No Return in terms of species survival. Still, take heart that supposedly at one point, only about 5,000 homo sapiens were alive. So we seem to be pretty good at fighting out of corners when it comes to fecundity. And don't forget, they didn't have antibiotics and stuff back them.
In any case, the two issues are different. The one you raise is about female reproductive capacity/ability. The issue in the posted story is about how due to chemical contamination the ratio of male:female births is dropping substantially and the incidence of feminine traits appearing in infant males has substantial ramifications not just for relations between most members of society but again, also for reproduction. 2% + 2% + 2% and pretty soon you are seeing some big numbers for male infertility. Assuming now that men and women generally seek to reproduce with specific members of the other sex (and that seems to be a pattern-- mating with many other members, that's one thing, *reproducing* is another), if the two people in question can't conceive because they are both low in capacity, well... and here in the west we have "fertility clinics". They don't got 'em in most of the world.
My own take is that nothing will change. The repro. rate will continue to fall as a %age of the population until at some point, maybe at around 10-12 billion humans (SWAG: 2150 AD with 75-80% of them female), on the whole we will rapidly decline in numbers. Assuming a speed-up in loss of lives due to the effects of global climate change, violence due to competition for increasingly scarce resources, climate toxicity, and the likely arrival of one or more aggressive diseases for which we cannot find a treatment or cure, I will take another SWAG that by 2300 AD, we will be down to ~5 billion humans, many of whom will be infertile-- perhaps as many as 50% - with about the same male:female ratio as in 2150.
However even if human numbers eventually fall to as little as 100,000, don't forget, we are good at recovery. And the less of us there are, the less we are adding to pollution and doing the things that are getting us killed. In essence our species' next Great Die-Down will cause a negative feedback loop in the factors contributing to it, not a positive one. So before you call it a bust, remember, we still got a looong way to go.
But as for mourning the decrease in our numbers, give it some thought first. Really, there is only so much stuff/room on this planet anyway. So things gotta go one way or another some time, right? [People holding out for faster-than-light technology to get off this rock are gonna be waiting an awful long time, and if anyone can invent a Dr. Who-like trans-dimensional travel device, well, I imagine we would know about it by now, as he would probably have shown up at some point in his time-travels and said "Hello" to someone relatively important. Short of aliens coming and giving us the means of escape (and do you think they would after they see what we did to our first home?), we are here and will be here and only here for the duration of our species. So that's that. =)]
The One World Gov't Wants This
"When the EU drew up its first comprehensive controls on chemicals two years ago, it largely exempted gender benders from them."
I think the EU is the final world gov't, and the reason they exempted the gender benders is because an event like this occuring is beneficial to them. If there's fewer males, gaining control of the world is easier. You just have to play on people's emotions and throw logic out the window.
I also think these "gender benders" are likely responsible for gynecomastia, something that has made me feel embarassed about myself my whole life. I'm mad now!
Evan AKA X-TRNL
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David A. DeLong
Throughout history the working class, or in the past, (depending on how you look at it) the slaves exhibited the same behavior in so far as reproduction. Society has always found ways of generating more "subjects" as the u.s. welfare system, and the implimantation of the same system in russia. I would guess that due to the information age, and various other "factors" that the youth, in this case the male youth, are not only opting out of the traditional role of mule, but due to the general malaize of the male race of humans in particular, are biologicaly responding as well. Yes, I'm sure the corporations are chomping at the bit to implement artificial wombs, and brainwashed subjects that will do their bidding. OK, are we that far from that very scenerio at this very time?
Highway 61
DavidHoweverLong,
Try inserting a VERB in your posts once in a rare while, please.
I need to rent a GPS device just to try to locate a grammatical location for your syntax.
My OnStar service has you on speed-dial wondering when a complete sentence with coherence will be disclosed.
I think I understand what you are trying to say.
But what I am trying to understand I'm thinking that you are saying is well....