Christina Patterson
When there's a male crisis, blame the women
Which is better: to keep society ticking along, or the planet?
Saturday, 10 January 2009
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/christina-patterson/christina-patterson-when-theres-a-male-crisis-blame-the-women-1297592.htmlDarwin, who didn't bat an eyelid over the evolution of the barnacle into Russell Brand, might well have been worried about fish. They're all turning into girls, apparently, sprouting little bumps and pockets of eggs where there should be lean, mean, male muscle. I don't know what the implications of this are for the global fish economy, fish boardrooms or fish foreign policy, but I'd be surprised if this crisis in masculinity didn't produce a bit of fish agonising, some beating of (rather overly endowed) fish breasts.
The Vatican didn't mention this in an article on the "devastating ecological effects" of the contraceptive pill published this week. Maybe it didn't mention it because it doesn't care about transgender in fish, or perhaps because it thought it might revive unhelpful thoughts about men, women, fish and bicycles, or perhaps because it shares the view of many scientists that fish feminisation (but not, one hopes, feminism) has as much to do with oestrogen-mimicking industrial waste as the mass excretion of that creation of the Antichrist, the Pill. It did, however, assert that the "tons of hormones" unleashed on the environment had impaired male fertility.
