Water turning the frogs gay

Feminist science studies scholars view this as an example of the broader phenomenon of casting white male decline in biological terms. Besides their rampant transmisogyny, far-right depictions of environmental issues are coded with concerns over perceived decline of white male social dominance.

A photograph in the article shows two frogs in amplexus—the mating position of frogs, where one frog clasps the lower back of another fig. Read Story. Latest posts by Meg Perret see all. Far-right rhetoric in the United States has also featured Hayes et al. She is a senior fellow with the climate justice organization, Our Climate Voices, where she helps amplify the stories of those most affected by climate change.

The herbicide atrazine, one of the world's most widely used pesticides, screws up the sex lives of adult male frogs, emasculating three-quarters of them and turning one in 10 into females, according to a new study by UC Berkeley's Tyrone Hayes. NiCHE encourages comments and constructive discussion of our articles.

In the context of the rhetoric of male decline, white heterosexual masculinity becomes an endangered species. We reserve the right to delete comments that fail to meet our guidelines including comments under aliases, or that contain spam, harassment, or attacks on an individual.

Alex Jones "Turning the Freaking Frogs Gay" Terrance Giles K subscribers Subscribed. These representations perpetuate transmisogyny, a term from feminist theory that describes discrimination against trans women, who are impacted by both transphobia and misogyny.

In a rant that has since become a meme and a line of t-shirts, Jones said he didn't like the government "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin' frogs gay." "The majority of. A National Geographic article opens with the Hayes et al. Reaction to the study also spawned a viral meme of right-wing Infowars podcaster Alex Jones shouting, "I don't like 'em putting chemicals in the water that turn the freaking frogs gay!".

Please, can anyone explain how exactly the poisoned land and water is not affecting minorities just as much, if not more? In this essay, I examine the role of gendered rhetoric in scientific and popular representations of this controversy. Scholars in queer ecologies, a subfield that explores the intersection of queer theory and environmental studies, have probed how representations of endocrine disruption in popular culture are imbued with normative judgments about the desirability of human sexual variability.

She is a recipient of the presidential scholarship, which recognizes the top admitted graduate students at Harvard for their leadership and innovation potential in both public policy and academia. In the present study, we examined the long-term effects of atrazine exposure on reproductive development and function in an all-male population of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), generated by crossing ZZ females (sex-reversed genetic males) to ZZ males (SI Materials and Methods).

In Alex Jones Comes out of the Closet as a Gay Frog , he wore a full-body frog suit, green face paint, and pink tutu. Cancel reply. Bio Latest Posts. Attitudes like this prevent it from being a viable discussion. Pointing out biological and physiological changes that actually occured is not misogyny just because it reinforces distinct sex characteristics.

In , biologist Dr. Although the manufacturer of Atrazine, Syngenta, argues that the pesticide is safe, Hayes and other scientists have increasingly demonstrated a link between Atrazine and threats to public health and the environment. She has worked on several interdisciplinary collaborative projects between feminist scholars and scientists including the Harvard GenderSci lab which critiques sexist science and generates feminist concepts for scientific research on sex, gender, and sexuality.

Fertility rates in people, in the US for example are dropping too. Hayes et al. Most notably, American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones cited research on the effects of atrazine on frogs, which can induce spontaneous sex change or hermaphroditism, to claim that the U.S.

government was "putting chemicals in the water that turn the friggin’ frogs gay" as part of a "chemical warfare operation" to increase homosexuality and. Imagine thinking science is nothing but a big meanie! This essay contributes novel analysis of how the gendered rhetoric of EDCs translates in the discourses of the contemporary alt right.

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a history of repeatedly sharing unfounded conspiracies that man-made chemicals in the environment could be making children gay or. The following two tabs change content below.