Just a pleasantly surprising observation about people's behaviours to soy products in real life compared to online

As a vegan, getting in shape is one of the best things you can do for irl interactions. I've barely had anyone say anything disrespectful or ignorant to me in person because my lifestyle is clearly beneficial, and I've had a number of people tell me they'd try going vegan now because their biggest concern was not knowing how it would impact their health and fitness.

The whole soy propaganda thing is hilarious considering the fact that meat is what actually lowers testosterone, all these carnivore freaks end up needing TRT. The losers using the term soy boy as a pejorative are sad little (mostly) men with inferiority complexes.

I've been vegan over 30 years. It was not until 2 years ago I discovered tofu presses, and I am sorry I did not get one in 1991 when I went vegan. Making Extra Firm Tofu into Extra Extra Firm Tofu is fanfuckingtastic.

Freezing tofu does about the same thing pressing tofu does. Pressing tofu does it much faster and no freezer is needed.

I read an article by some sad person who claimed pressed tofu is bad. Perhaps in their messed up version of reality where they like squishy food. I graduated past baby food a long time ago.

Right, no one in east asia gives two hoots about 'becoming soyboys' or anything like that, it's a normal and delicious part of the cuisine. I visited my friend in HK and the first meal I had with her off the plane was a dumpling and noodle place and she ordered a glass of ice cold soy milk to go with her dumplings. I thought, damn that looks really refreshing actually, never thought of that combo before. so now sometimes on hot days when I'm having savory food I'll get some soy milk to drink with it.

Soyboy and proud! 😎😎

Anti soy stems from people not understanding how hormones function in reality in the human body. Yes phytoestrogens can simulate estrogens in the human body. But in adult males estrogen is actually a highly anabolic hormone, with strong hypertrophic effects. Soy is nothing to be scared of at all for any reason... That's coming from a powerlifting carnivore 😅

They’ve done tests that prove there’s female hormones in beer.

Nearly 100% of male subjects dosed with multiple beers found that they talked a lot more and couldn’t drive cars

I’ll show myself out

My problem with buying tofu is it's always in plastic packaging. I'd consider using it more often if I could get it with compostable packing (or no packaging) but that's not really possible right now other than making it myself; and frankly it's easier to just eat the beans directly than make a product out of them.

Just piggybacking off this post to remind people that Tofu isn't a meat substitute in many cultures, especially Asian ones. A dish having Tofu in it (in potlucks or whatever) can absolutely contain meat as well, so look out for that.

Just remembering this bc I've recently been to a potluck and a (vegetarian) friend was confused at me avoiding a Tofu and meat dish bc "it's got Tofu, so surely it's vegan?". It wasn't, but that's how many western dishes work so it can be overlooked more easily.

It’s wild about the soy/estrogen thing. I’m post menopause 9 years now, and have complete blood tests run 2x a year, including hormone levels. They go up and down slightly within the post-menopausal range but that’s it. If soy would increase my sex hormones, that’d be great… BUT IT DOESN’T.

This soy boy BS needs to die already

They see the word estrogen and go crazy

Online you will always have a easier time finding the extremes. That include vegans, esp. on various social media sites.

In real life these extremes are usually few and far between, unless you knowingly or unknowingly seek them out for w/e reason.

Remember that while soy based foods have small amounts of phytoestrogens, dairy has so much actual estrogen in it that I’ve had multiple trans people tell me that their doctor recommended drinking lots of milk to help their boobs get bigger.

The only issue I and anyone else I know has with soy, is that it tastes foul.