This may not be a mens rights issue, 100%, but I thought it would be a nice piece to bring MR's attention to.
What are your thoughts on environmental chemical exposure to xenoestrogen compounds such as Bisphenol-A in regards to beta (or less) behaviors, attitudes, and mannerisms?
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-sex-and-babies/201201/bpa-and-the-single-spacey-sex-starved-male
*ADDENDUM: Alpha Beta Omega are thus defined, ITT, as: Most-desirable Neutral Least-desirable in women's (as a group) opinion. Nothing to do with the animal kingdom.
*ADDENDUM II, QFTA:
"Researchers worry that BPA may affect women's brains in a way that alter their maternal instincts. In laboratory studies, BPA-exposed female rats are less likely to nurture their offspring—they lick them less—which in turn affects the emotional and cognitive system of their babies. They become more fearful and anxious."
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"There is evidence that BPA emasculates males and makes them sexually undesirable. Galea and Barha's opening lines in PSAS are tongue in cheek—they are describing a new study at the University of Missouri on the effects of BPA on deer mice—but the application to humans is implicit. Adult mice whose mothers were fed a dosage of BPA equivalent to what the USDA deems safe for pregnant women, were, well, different from other males.
"One of the prominent effects of early BPA exposure is that it eliminates a number of sex differences in brain and behavior," the researchers wrote. It turned out that BPA-exposed males have impaired spatial ability (can't find their way out of a maze or to their nest, considered unattractive to females). They also suffer from decreased exploratory ability (incurious and easily lost), and overall reduced attractiveness to the opposite sex. They may even smell different from their peers—in rodents, a sign of unhealthiness. Females are disgusted."
*ADDENDUM III: Here is the direct link to the study text referenced in the article: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/28/11305.full
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