2497 Disappearing males

Monday, July 13, 2009

HL Mencken: "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Well, romantic love, yeah. We too often fall in love with a construct rather than a person.

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We see so many documentaries that scare us. Most people pass them off as fear-mongering, scare tactics, calculated to make us behave in the way that the producers want us to behave.

Sometimes that's true. Crass manipulation is what's going on. Sometimes the topic is a real concern, but many people, jaded by too many obvious attempts at manipulation, pass off real concerns along with the bogus.

Global warming is an example. I will listen carefully to those who say that we can't be sure about reasons for it, or whether anything we can do will stop or reverse it, or whether the results will be so very dire. I'll listen to people who say maybe it isn't warming so much as a redistribution of heat. However, I have no patience at all with people who flat out deny that polar ice and glaciers are melting. That is fact. It's only the "why" that's in dispute.

People will have a similar reaction to the following documentary from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation?/Company? (CBC-TV). The cause may be in dispute, but the facts are indisputable. Sperm counts and motility are dropping, in humans and other animals. Birth rates for baby boys are dropping. It's seen all over the world. It may be plastics. Then again, it may just be Mother Nature saying "Too many people! Let's adjust those birthrates!"

The video is about 45 minutes long. No commercials. If "The Disappearing Male: Doc Zone" isn't the title on the video panel on the left, look for it in the list of videos on the right.
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/docplayer2.html?maven_playerId=docportal&maven_referralPlaylistId=f21067aaabfdece3076458e7e035e69febe7cfe7&maven_referralObject=4505047

It'll make you think twice next time you reach for the Tupperware.

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I am left with a nagging question. The thrust is what it's doing to males. Females seem to be unaffected? Huh? Females have and use testosterone and other male hormones. Are the effects there but more subtle? Does it matter?
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