“It’s a chemical warfare operation,” Jones told his listeners, “I don’t like ’em putting chemicals in the water that TURN THE FREAKIN’ FROGS GAY!” In 2010, the infamous shock jock announced that the US government was intentionally putting chemicals into the water supply with the goal of feminising American men. Here is a scientific theory that you might be familiar with by way of Alex Jones. And although there is a brief discussion of the possibility that “endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in food, plastics, and personal-care products” may be affecting girls’ (and boys’) sexual development, there is also no mention of the role that hormonal birth control might be playing in this story. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the political implications, the New Yorker piece does not mention this fatherlessness factor. This link between fatherlessness and early sexual development is likely a result of the fact that, as one group of researchers puts it, “during human evolutionary history, when girls encountered familial conditions that were unfavourable for survival (e.g., insecure and unsupportive family relationships), it was adaptive to become reproductively mature earlier.” We have known since the 1980s, for instance, that girls in Western countries who grow up without a father at home begin puberty earlier.
Alex jones turning the frogs gay free#
I’m sceptical of this last claim (as if the far more lethal pandemics of the past were free from stress!), but there is certainly good evidence that high calorie intake is associated with earlier menarche, along with a range of social factors. Among these were rising obesity levels, less sleep triggered by increased technology use, and a spike in stress triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now it is girls of lower socioeconomic status who get their periods first.Ī piece last week in the New Yorker, titled ‘Why More and More Girls Are Hitting Puberty Early’, attributed the rise in early menarche to several factors. But, peculiarly, since the turn of the century that relationship between affluence and age at menarche has gone into reverse.
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