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In reply to the discussion: BTW...Remember that Evo Morales is the same crazy nut that said the U.S.A. poisoned Hugo Chavez [View all]cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)"When we talk about chicken, it's pumped full of female hormones," Morales said, "and so when men eat this chicken, they stray from being men" (literally tienen desviaciones en su ser como hombres in Spanish). The comment went over nonSpanish speakers' heads, so it wasn't until sundown that it rippled its way through the 35,000-participant gathering. By the next morning, the international press had gotten wind of it, Bolivian newspapers had plastered it on their front pages and Spain's national LGBT federation had issued a statement calling the comment "homophobic."
A little context goes a long way, doesn't it? So let me ask you this... my Daughter will some day soon undergo gender reassignment surgery. Next month she starts testosterone treatments. If testosterone treatments can make a female more like a man by counteracting estrogen (that's the idea behind the treatments, right?) then doesn't it stand to reason that eating chicken pumped full of female hormones counteracts testosterone in a man?
By the way, the literal translation is: "have deviations in their being as men" Context. It's what's for dinner.
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