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Honestly
is the distilled energy of the college-educated soy liberal.
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.
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.
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.
I'm old enough to remember when quiche was considered "unmanly". Like it's literally eggs and sometimes breakfast meat in a pie crust lmao.
Wait I thought quiche was that little green haired alien elf dude from that cartoon about the magical cat girl?
the wojaks and use of "normies" isn't fantastic either tbh
I’ve been using normie since way before the problematic people online were
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.
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.
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
What do you mean by "nazi bean"?
That's an interesting little tidbit, but do you really think this is the reference people are making when they call things "soy"?