Also, Roxane Gay, everybody

“Listen, honey. You’re gaining weight because all women lose self control within a month or two of starting the pill. The connection here remains a mystery. Say, are you having chest pain?”

Or, our other perennial favorite: “Why didn’t you say something sooner?”

This. The interactions of various plastic additives and women’s health have been known and more or less ignored for... well, decades at this point. Along with the side effects of birth control, hormones and antibiotics in meat and dairy, and on and on ad nauseum. I remain baffled and annoyed that side effects which…

White nationalism isn’t a “different point of view” that needs to be heard in the “marketplace of ideas.” We have been introduced and then reintroduced to this idea many times in the last few hundred years in this country, and have found it wanting.

Counterpoint: There’s still too much sperm. 

Don’t make me get short with you.

Kind of. It’s also making other species sterile too. My anatomy professor talked about this, but mentioned that some male alligators in the Everglades are actually being born without penises. It would be nice-ish if it was just us, but it's cross-species.

This isn’t exactly how I imagined our self-engineered destruction would look.

Deep down, we all knew this is what it would take, didn’t we? “My son might have a small dick?! We gotta protect the environment!”

also, since @Mortal Dictata asked an “honest” question but keeps dismissing my honest answer:

Snark is written into this sites DNA, see about or site description.  Given biological studies about men are better funded and more widely published it seems fair to mock a bit for a site like this, and I say that as a man.

Hey, MD - not sure if you, Kinja, or thetallblonde themselves deleted their comment, but it was valid and I think it should be here. I definitely don’t always agree with the tone some Jez authors take, but I understand the inclination toward sarcasm/flippancy in the specific cases you mentioned.

Turns out the Giant Meteor we’ve been hoping for will in fact be a Tiny Meatier.

“That’s the nub of this whole story.” 

I’m not sure I’m all that bothered by this news.

“phthalates, BPA—are found in water bottles, food containers, sales receipts, gelling agents, lubricants, binders, emulsifying agents, suspending agents, the coating of pills and nutritional supplements, medical devices, detergents, packaging, paint, modeling clay, pharmaceuticals, textiles, sex toys, nail polish,…

Since (presumably) they’re only studying adult men, that means the test subjects are likely those conceived in 1980 to, say, 1995 or so. Those were like the Wild West of toxic shit in everything that we now know will harm you.

Blessed be the fruit.