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[–] AspieEgg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 97 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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 18 points 7 months ago

Lmao you're right.

[–] businessfish@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago

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

[–] kewwwi@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago
[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 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 1 points 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)

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

It’s affect, not effect.

[–] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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 7 months ago (2 children)

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 7 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.

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[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago
[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

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 7 months ago (1 children)

Or you could be turning into an old-school calculator

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 months ago

I am literally gonna do this.

[–] basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bold to assume I’m not a plant

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Bold that we assumed that you weren't

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

...

Can we...

Can we eat them?

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I think, morally, we have to to

[–] christian@lemmy.ml 18 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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 29 points 7 months ago (6 children)
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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is where Joe Rogan style insecure flat earthers get the term soy boy.

[–] capital@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 7 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)

[–] pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 months ago

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

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 7 points 7 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.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 7 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 7 months ago

It's sad there is no picture of him.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] miridius@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

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

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