{"id":4131,"date":"2007-11-23T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2007-11-24T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/23\/estroblaster\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T08:03:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T16:03:41","slug":"estroblaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/11\/23\/estroblaster\/","title":{"rendered":"EstroBlaster!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5744,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2058997248&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308151605\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2058997248&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2058997248&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5745,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.chesapeakenutraceuticals.com\\\/estroblaster.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210619030926\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.chesapeakenutraceuticals.com\\\/estroblaster.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 13:50:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 13:50:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5746,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2059003006&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2059003006&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5747,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2059000152&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2059000152&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5748,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.freerepublic.com\\\/forum\\\/a3a873e4d721c.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20210617085504\\\/https:\\\/\\\/freerepublic.com\\\/forum\\\/a3a873e4d721c.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 13:50:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 13:50:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5749,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.secondtype.com\\\/young.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5750,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.secondtype.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Apparently, I&#8217;m a 50-something gun-toting impotent Republican.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that&#8217;s sure what it seems like judging by the junk mail I get. For some reason, I&#8217;ve ended up on some hilariously odd mailing lists. I get occasional mailings from the AARP welcoming me to my retirement years, the NRA asking if I want to join or contribute money to one thing or another, and so on. Today brought the best mailing yet, though.<\/p>\n<p>Prairie picked up the mail and started flipping through the envelopes. Handing one to me with a puzzled look on her face, she asked, &#8220;What mailing list are <em>you<\/em> on?&#8221; The envelope she handed me had a somewhat softcore porn-ish shot of a man and woman in bed, with the text &#8220;<strong>THE FIRST TRUE <em>REVOLUTION IN MALE SEXUAL POWER<\/em> IS HERE&#8230;<em>NOW<\/em>!<\/strong>&#8221; emblazoned across it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really not sure,&#8221; I said and popped it open. Pulling the folded newsletter style paper out of the envelope, my eyebrows shot up, and I started to laugh at the headline that greeted me: &#8220;THE PROBLEM IS <em>NOT<\/em> TESTOSTERONE &#8211; The Problem Is That You Are Being Deluged with Female Hormones. You Are Being Feminized and You Don&#8217;t Even Know It.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Feminized? Oh, <em>no<\/em> &#8212; what&#8217;s happening? Am I losing my manhood? Is my manliness being sucked away, turning me into some swishy girly-man? This can&#8217;t be true!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/2058997248\/\" title=\"EstroBlaster Detail by djwudi, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2195\/2058997248_185a11c27f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"EstroBlaster Detail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reading on, I chose bits and pieces to read to Prairie aloud, until both of us had stitches in our sides and tears in our eyes. The advertised product, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesapeakenutraceuticals.com\/estroblaster.html\" title=\"Chesapeake Nutraceuticals: Products: EstroBlaster\">EstroBlaster<\/a>, is yet another in a long line of herbal supplements aimed at men who have (or are being convinced that they have) a little less fuel in their rocket than they did in earlier times. I haven&#8217;t seen too many of these ads, so I don&#8217;t really have a basis for comparison, but this one&#8217;s marketed using an absolutely hilarious mix of misogyny, homophobia, and scare tactics.<\/p>\n<p>A few choice quotes&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;more and more research is coming out. There is a terrible secret that you should know about.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>The Secret Problem of Estrogen Dominance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  You are being deluged with female hormones. That, on top of naturally falling male hormone levels, can cause a condition called <strong><em>estrogen dominance<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>You are being turned into a woman, and you don&#8217;t even know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  What&#8217;s happening is that large amounts of female hormones are slipping through the water treatment plants of most major cities. Even in the country the water is filled with them.<\/p>\n<p>  Estrogen is passing right through women and into the water supply &#8212; where it can&#8217;t be removed.<\/p>\n<p>  In fact, there is enough estrogen in the water right now to change male fish into females.<\/p>\n<p>  Recent statistics even show that more young men are getting plastic surgery to remove their &#8220;male boobs&#8221; than there are young women getting breast augmentation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/2059003006\/\" title=\"EstroBlaster Detail by djwudi, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2288\/2059003006_aecfe871a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"EstroBlaster Detail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Not only that, but the rate of young boys turning into girls is frightening. One group that monitors this problem said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    No one compiles official statistics on transgender youths, but everyone agrees that their numbers are rising quickly.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  &#8230;it took months to narrow down a powerful formula at a good price. We named it <strong>Estro-Blaster<\/strong> &#8212; after what it&#8217;s designed to do&#8230;<strong>blast the estrogen out of your system<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>  **Get Back the Sexual Drive and Ability You Had as a Teenager&#8230; Wanting Sex Every Day &#8211; The Ability to Get Hard Every Time &#8211; And Even Spontaneous Erections! <em>(The Kind You Used to Have to Hid in School When You Got Up to Change Classes&#8230;You&#8217;d Have to Carry Your Books Down in Front of Your Pants)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  After years of falling sexual ability, I was amazed one day, when out and about, that I was getting a &#8220;spontaneous&#8221; erection.<\/p>\n<p>  I didn&#8217;t even have to touch my penis. It just began swelling to an erect state.<\/p>\n<p>  You can imagine my surprise &#8212; and pleasure. This hadn&#8217;t happened to me since I was in my twenties. Many years ago.<\/p>\n<p>  I felt like a man again &#8212; a real man.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/2059000152\/\" title=\"EstroBlaster Detail by djwudi, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2377\/2059000152_77c1e997a7.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"EstroBlaster Detail\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As if all this wasn&#8217;t funny enough, there were two sources listed in the flyer. At first I was surprised that there were <em>any<\/em> sources listed &#8212; this didn&#8217;t seem like the kind of thing that would be worrying about sourcing its information. Then I noticed that one of the sources was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/forum\/a3a873e4d721c.htm\" title=\"Free Republic: Early Puberty- Why Are Young Girls Developing So Fast [Serious story. No jokes]\">a forum post on Free Republic<\/a>, one of the most notorious far-right rabid conservative spaces on the &#8216;net today, and <em>far<\/em> from being anything that I&#8217;d even remotely consider a &#8216;trusted source.&#8217; The second was a small excerpt from an article titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondtype.com\/young.htm\" title=\"Second Type Woman: Young Transsexuals\">Treatment of Young MTF Transsexuals<\/a>&#8221; on a site called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.secondtype.com\/\" title=\"Second Type Woman\">Second Type Woman<\/a>,&#8221; which (at least on first glance) doesn&#8217;t exactly strike me as the kind of source most people should be basing their pharmaceutical decisions on.<\/p>\n<p>All in all, it made for a <em>very<\/em> entertaining evening.<\/p>\n<p>And, apparently, I&#8217;m a fifty-something gun-toting impotent Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Good to know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, I&#8217;m a 50-something gun-toting impotent Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[6,13],"class_list":["post-4131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}