• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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      3 months ago

      I still don’t get why people on this site keep calling things “soy” when the term has such a troublesome background rooted in all sorts of right-wing tropes. I wish people would just stop.

      • RoabeArt [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        3 months ago

        Yeah, the “soy” thing originally came about from a misguided belief that soy has a high amount of estrogen, and that eating too much of it can feminize men. It’s an insult with sexist and transphobic origins.

        Co-opting chud insults and turning them back on them is good, but “soy” isn’t it.

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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          3 months ago

          Transphobic and sexist and also anti-vegan and anti-Asian, since the term is also tied to the belief that caring about animal welfare is a sign of weakness, and the belief that lactose tolerance is somehow a sign of racial superiority, plus the old vintage racist belief that East Asians’ diets “feminize” them; and following from these beliefs, the belief that soy products are a good old “Oriental conspiracy” pushed by “the globalist elite” to destroy Glourious Western Manhood.

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          3 months ago

          I’ve been using normie since way before the problematic people online were

        • Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]@hexbear.net
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          And while we’re at it, references to “glowing” — the original quote that inspired that term literally has a hard R in it, yet people apparently do not know or do not care about the context or how the term spread.

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        Huge agree. It sounds goofy, and it’s inexorably tied to just so much bigotry too.

        There’s no reason to co-opt it, and attempts at doing so would be a betrayal of leftist values.

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        Soy is the nazi bean, also when I tried soymilk as a kid I detested it cuz gross, but I gave it a second chance today and bought the Ades Natural Flavor and it was 99% vainillin and sugar. It had so much vainillin it had that bitter taste of pure vainillin. So I know it’s not related but I wanted to share how much I hate Ades in all its forms

        Oat milk rules