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Ah, politicians. You can always trust them to not know too much about other fields of knowledge.
And unfortunately create legislation around it.
Not great legsilation. That’s right, it’s spelled wrong. Can anyone tell me why?
No, but I’ve probably had too much beer and wine.
FREEEEBIIRRRRD!!!
I think beer is great!
Leg-sill-AY-shun?
jabroni.com? Any reference to The Rock automatically qualifies you for excellent person of the week with 10 extra win points.
Do you like pancakes?
Great guess!
hrm. Even though I understand the point you’re trying to make, you still used the phrase ‘You can always trust [politicians]…’
It just makes me cringe a little, is all.
You mean like Professor Al Gore?
Ummmmm… wouldn’t that lead (if this is indeed true) to men growing boobs?
Yeah, like Meat Loaf in Fight Club.
LOL! Forgot all about that. *Adds to Netflix queue
That was MEATLOAF!?!
His name was Robert Paulsen.
You’re breaking the first rule, man!!!
HIS NAME IS ROBERT PAULSEN!
Actually, increased estrogen does often lead to increased facial hair in women. This is not its only side effect, but it is a true side effect.
Then why do many post menopausal women often grow facial hair?
Because progesterone also aggravates it Avis. Basically being a woman kind of blows hormonally.
TMI and I’m sorry
Estrogen imbalance can cause an increase in testosterone.
Sadly I must agree. IT also causes pimples in some women when their bodies are overproducing like during pregnancy.
Thank goodness my husband loves me and says he will pay the $100 for the laser treatment to get rid of the weird eraser sized spot of hair I’ve developed on my chin. Ugh. Stupid hormones.
So too much or too little estrogen causes facial hair in women. Good to know.
Yup. Also pretty much any hormonal imbalance.
I am soooo screwed when “the change” hits.
I forget that people’s priorities change over time. However, I cannot ever see myself being like “meh” if I ever develop facial hair. I should be able to just shrug at it (at the least), but social sanctions of beauty norms, yadda yadda…
It’s because it’s a guy trying to relate to us women, and he’s failing. Ironically appropriate on failblog.
Um. No.
Facial hair and other male secondary sex characteristics only come from androgenic action.
Everyone has both male and female hormones. Most men have low estrogens and high androgens, and vice versa. Some, however, have high levels of the “wrong” hormones (irrespective of their levels of the “right” ones.) In men, this leads to breast development, and in women, this leads to increased body hair (among other things.)
I think the misconception you’re running from here is that some women who have high androgens also have high estrogen. But it’s not the estrogen causing their hair growth. Estrogen simply doesn’t act that way on the body.
/20 years of personal experience with a hormone disorder. Also, a bunch of trans friends.
You do realize that plastic bottles cannot “give off” estrogen? And that that myth has been proved wrong…
It kind of bothers me that I think the most wrong thing about that statement is how he describes a chemical “simular to estrogen” as if it were testosterone.
Except testosterone isn’t anything like estrogen other than it’s also a hormone. Neither is progesterone actually.
Incidentally, both men and women have all three, it’s the mix that matters.
Don’t forget the (unverified) effects of marijuana on testosterone and prolactin, but that’s a male thing.
Actually, testosterone and estrogen are extremely similar (both are slightly modified cholesterol). So are progesterone and cortisone, and all their artificial counterparts. Steroids form a tight little chemical class.
They ARE similar.
Oh, God, I am so proud of my Governor. Yes, I am from Maine. This guy…just wow.
I’m from Maine too, but at college in Ohio. This man represents our state so poorly.
Was he talking about BPAs in baby bottles?
Biology fail aside, why is he putting plastic bottles in the microwave?
Yeah, I was more concerned about the bottles plastic bottles in the microwave than anything else…
And wow fail for me. >.>
plastic bottles****
I’m not completely sure but I think that some baby bottles are made of the same kind of plastic as what he is talking about so maybe people are warming them in the microwave?
It’s not just the microwave though, there are a handful of plastics that have typically been used in the production of bottled water bottles, nalgene bottles, and other plastics that release this chemical when they are heated past a certain point, for example if you leave them in your car or live in Arizona.
I was wondering the same thing.
My sister put a styrofoam box in the microwave one time and stunk up the whole house with a really weird smell. Thinking back to that, she probably brought us all a little closer to cancer.
But yeah, both materials are bad ideas.
What in the hell was this even in response to?!
He’s trying to repeal a law which bans Bisphenol-A (BPA) in baby bottles and sippy cups. His biggest campaign donations came from out-of-state heavy industry companies, including chemical manufacturers. Truly awful.
http://www.mainepolitics.net/content/836/science-behind-ban-bpa
The last sentence sounds like a joke to me- if this was recorded, was he using a joking tone when saying it? It seems to much like a punchline…
Yeah it was a punchline, it was making a joke. I live in Maine and environmentalists are going psycho here about stupid laws. He was making a joke people are so serious.
Ignorant joke is ignorant.
How the **** did he get elected to anything?
Many, many people in Maine (where I am from and continue to live today) are painfully, jaw-droppingly stupid.
62% of the population voted for someone else. He won by around 1 or 2%. It was a race between him, an extreme left wing candidate who got around 20%, an independent who got around 1 or 2% less than LePage.
Also, people tend to not think about who they vote for. He’s a business man who got turned away from a school in Maine that has a 97% acceptance rate his first try getting in.
Why am I not surprised this is a Republican Governor?
Mmhm.
Not just a republican governor, a tea party backed candidate.
God I loathe him and my dumbass state for wanting him
So…
one interesting and well-informed conversation, and then thirty folks who can’t be bothered to verify the accuracy of what he’s saying before condemning him as ignorant?
Irony. It’s tasty.
The biggest problem with what he said is that he’s claiming BPA to be otherwise harmless and ignoring the other harmful effects of endocrine disruptors like BPA. Saying “Little beards” is just bad taste.
http://www.mainepolitics.net/content/836/science-behind-ban-bpa
Here ya go: http://new.bangordailynews.com/2011/02/22/health/gov-lepage-dismisses-dangers-of-bpa/
Scroll down to the point where he said what everyone is commenting on.
Oh wait, you’re suggesting that he may not be ignorant in suggesting that estrogen might have testosterone-like effects.
Ignorance irony is tasty indeed.
too much estrogen does cause testosterone like effects. And yes, inorance irony IS tasty.
*ignorance
But women do have little beards…
woman wanted to have a facelift, so she went to see the doctor. “Yes, I can do it, but you’ll have to return in a few months for a follow-up,” the doctor says.
“I would much rather have it done all at once. I don’t want to have to back,” she tells him.
Thinking for a few minutes, the doctor tells her, “We do have a new procedure. We put a screw in the top of your head, then any time you happen to see wrinkles reappearing, you turn the screw and it pulls the skin up causing the wrinkles to disappear.”
bags under eyes – dark circles around eyes
“Perfect,” she says, “that’s what I’d like to have.”
A few months later the woman bursts into the doctor’s office. “How’s the procedure holding up?” he asks her. “Horrible!” she shouts. “It’s the biggest mistake I’ve ever made.”
“What do you mean? What’s wrong?” asks the doctor. “What’s wrong? Take a look at these bags under my eyes,” she screams.
“Ma’am, those are not bags,” the doctor says, “those are your breasts. And if you don’t leave that screw alone, you’re going to end up with a beard!”
…his “kiss my butt” comment to the NAACP was a joke too, I’m sure. Still pretty tactless as a politician. 30% of Maine voted for him, so don’t get too mad at your neighbors if you’re living here.
It wasn’t a joke. He should’ve just said he had other commitments, he was attending a funeral for a state trooper, instead of suggesting that they were marking him a racist for not attending a MLK event.
Wait, so is this a Fail fail?
I remember learning that estrogen in females causes male characteristics like facial hair and estrogen in males actually causes the easier burning of fat.
He’s actually completely right. It the same effect that body builders get when they take too many steroids and start growing breast.
To everyone above who thought the fail was his saying estrogen causes women to grow facial hair, maybe I’m misunderstanding, but isn’t the fail that he believes that lady facial hair is the “worst case” effect of the leaching of a human hormone-like substance into water we drink?
Maybe that’s just me.
That’s where I see the fail.
Regarding the biology argument, coming from a humble med student- I feel both sides are correct. Estrogens do not have androgen effects, it’s effect is to make a human feminine. When there is TOO MUCH of a hormone in a body, however, it down-regulates the receptors, which in turn makes the body insensitive to that hormone, thus the tiny amount of testosterone that does exist will have the dominant effect (it’s all about ratios). This is exactly why steroid-popping weight lifters (taking testosterone) have shrivled balls.
I’ll call myself out on the punctuation of “its effect”.
Why do everyone discuss about effects of oestrogen when the big fail here is the absurd thing here is the plastic bottle thing ? Bad science fails.
the big fail here is the absurd thing here is the plastic bottle thing ?
Yeah, THAT clears it up.
I think the fail is that he says it’s the worst the can happen…
Politicians are the ultimate Cliff Clavin’s of the universe.
And, I thought they were the Herb Tarlick’s all this time. Shows to go ya!
Wait, is he wrong in saying microwaved plastic bottles give off chemicals similar to estrogen?
Because it is actually true that increased estrogen levels in women would cause them to gain more manly features, just as increased testosterone levels in men, would cause them to gain more women features.
The body tries to balace itself (so to speak). When the people gain too much of the hormone significant to their gender, the body tries to counter it by producing more of the opposite hormone.
Then you look like Bob.
Pretty sure Bob Kelso is just trolling in this pic.
This entire statement is a Fail. This guy barely wins the election because he lived a hard life and then does everything that people from my state and I would assume most others, were raised not to do. I am a female HD mechanic so I am definitely not all about being politically correct but this guy just does what he wants when he wants without thinking about how it makes his state (my state) look. Besides make headlines for ignorant comments he hasn’t done much of anything except to try and erase Maine’s history. He made his daughter the assistant or secretary to his chief of staff when she was definitely not the most qualified considering she has “limited work experience” Yes I believe that there are way too many politicians that are scared about not being politically correct but at least if you are going to open your mouth, it better be because it’s what your people want you to say.
öhhh… if you put a plastic bottle into the microwave and turn it on… for hours if you want… nothing happends, because microwaves don’t have effect on plastic items lol