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Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by gemstones on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:07PM (#36473107)
Interestingly, this is a plot point in a very popular Chinese-language sci-fi novel called Death’s End. Humanity is deliberately nudged to take on more feminine qualities to make them a less effective fighting force against a colonizing species.

The author had to run his book by the CCP - you get the sense this hints at an accepted strategy in the Chinese mainland. It’s an interesting read.

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by ix-ix on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:51PM (#36473480)
Lol this is Alex Jones crap. "The globalists are making their plans public in popular media".
Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by Apocryphon on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:16PM (#36473654)
Technically it's called predictive programming.

Also it's complete nonsense because if anything, the CPC is afraid of those trends happening:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/02/1033687586/china-ban-effemina...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-55926248

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by mikrotikker on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:50PM (#36473905)
> Also it's complete nonsense because if anything, the CPC is afraid of those trends happening:

I think you misunderstood something here. The links you posted affirm the premise of the book.

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by shrimp_emoji on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:24PM (#36474599)
The links affirm that everyone's afraid of the same shadow, even the alleged monster casting it.
Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by AuryGlenz on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:50PM (#36473906)
I don’t think there’s a conspiracy, but testosterone levels and sperm counts have been dropping like a rock.

It’s no one’s plan but we do need to find the cause and deal with it.

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by alchemist1e9 on Sunday June 25, 2023 @08:01PM (#36473998)
Atrazine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

I’ve been reading is a potential candidate. Any opinions?

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by ericbarrett on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:16PM (#36474951)
This is an interesting theory.

> Its use was banned in the European Union in 2004

If so this should be something that's possible to control for in studies. I can't find a lot of data from Europe newer than about that date, even suitable for casual discussion.

Re:Ignoring Boys' Emotional Needs Fuels Public Health Risks by shrimp_emoji on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:22PM (#36474585)
Wait, what?!

I read Death's End, and I don't remember that.

The trilogy talks about human society ebbing and flowing between "tough" and "sensitive" over the generations. Mostly, the Trisolarans rely on the Sophon lock. With superior technology, the masculinity of your prey is totally irrelevant. And, in Death's End, everyone's in an Australian penal colony anyway.