# WND: Put down the tofu, honey, it'll only make you gay. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 12, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861 "2006-12-12T19:51:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/21 "2006-12-13T00:30:18Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton] Soy-eaters are liberals. Liberals get abortions. [Abortions cause breast cancer.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=399318) Q.E.D. [/QUOTE] Are you sure that it doesn’t mean that liberals cause breast cancer? I’m really confused now. ---
**Author:** ![Charger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@Charger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charger)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/22 "2006-12-13T00:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] I never eat tofu or soy based products and am totally gay. [/QUOTE] But if you _did_ eat soy and/or tofu, you’d reach unstoppable levels of gayness, right off the chart. You’d bury the needle on the gaydar detectors. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/23 "2006-12-13T00:48:38Z")
[Let’s not forget the interstellar connection.](http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/36) ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/24 "2006-12-13T00:58:42Z")
I wonder if we could somehow send a huge crate of tofu to **Rutz** and get his reaction upon opening it somehow. Or, better yet. A case of tube steak. He probably would miss the suggestion that he is the last person on the planet to realize he is So Very Gay. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/25 "2006-12-13T00:59:52Z")
> [@](#): > > you’d reach unstoppable levels of gayness Like a mesh between Richard Simmons and Christopher Lowell. Super Gay! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/26 "2006-12-13T01:01:35Z")
so that really, honest-to-god is not a parody site/article à la “The Onion” or Landover Baptist church? I already know the answer, I think. I’m just having a very, very hard time reading it and overcoming the feeling (or at least the hope) I’m being whooshed somehow. While the thought of eating soy isn’t likely to give me an erection (contrasted with the prospect of a big, expensive, perfectly-cooked steak, for example), I’m reasonably certain I’ve never gotten _smaller_ after eating tofu. But hey, I’m just one guy telling an anecdote. The article-writer has hard science backing up his claims. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/27 "2006-12-13T01:10:20Z")
Wow… and I just thought tofu made me gassy 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Elza\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Elza\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elza_B)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/28 "2006-12-13T01:33:53Z")
Huh. We’re thinking about switching my son over to soy formula since he may have a slight milk allergy. Well, hey, at least I’ll have someone who’ll go shoe shopping with me and who’ll listen to showtunes in the car! 😃 E. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/29 "2006-12-13T01:52:52Z")
I for one welcome our gay Tofurkey overlords. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/30 "2006-12-13T06:56:21Z")
Think how suckcessful they would have been if the word for tofu didn’t sound like the stuff you scrape from under your toenails! Totality, Tobrook, maybe, or totruck. Teetotaler, I don’t know. “Toe Foo,” what a stroke of genius. I’d pay a dollar to see that thrown against the wall. Ack, ptooey. Somebody said, “soybeans are not food. Soybeans are what food eats.” The only cool thing about soybeans is the herbicide ad with the music bought from John Lee Hooker, “B-b-b-b-beans.” ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/31 "2006-12-13T07:22:48Z")
Must be sure that my self-righteous vegan ex hears about this at once. Only responsible thing to do. For her own good. She’ll thank me. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/32 "2006-12-13T07:27:14Z")
::takes manly-man stance:: You can have my soy sauce when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/33 "2006-12-13T11:02:39Z")
[QUOTE=ouryL] Oh? I thought I loved tofu because I was Japanese. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Every time I eat tofu I start turning Japanese. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/34 "2006-12-13T11:07:31Z")
C’mon, you all know, deep in your hearts his thesis makes scientific and logical sense!! Premise 1: Tofu sucks Premise 2: Gay people incorporate all sorts of activities into their sexual lives including sucking. * * * Conclusion: Tofu causes Gay. See? Youse lot are just in denial. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/35 "2006-12-13T11:27:25Z")
Just for clarity, James Rutz is a major proponent of the “Open Church” movement (not the pro-gay one, btw) which favors smaller, often home-based, churches that have full member participation rather than a professional pastor. He is pretty much a regular Evangelical C’tian except that he believes those who go to Hell will eventually cease to exist, and is hedgy about whether or not the whole AntiChrist, Return of JC scenario will occur or the successful Evangelization of humanity. I generally like his stuff. But this article on soy\>gayness was just crazy. ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/36 "2006-12-13T12:18:10Z")
A formwer cow-orker of mine told me that he was trying to cut soy out of his diet as much as possible because of the concentration of estrogen and his desire to stay as “masculine and verile” as possible. That was a couple of years ago now. He always was a very odd guy… ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/37 "2006-12-13T14:20:59Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Every time I eat tofu I start turning Japanese. You really think so? ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/38 "2006-12-13T14:38:05Z")
When I was in China I ate a ton of that tofu stuff; some of it was disguised so it tasted like pork or beef or almost anything except what it was. I thought then that tofu was part of a communist plot but I never realized it was part of the Gay Agenda. ---
**Author:** ![Tio\_Gringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5e925/32.png) [@Tio\_Gringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tio_Gringo)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/39 "2006-12-13T15:04:13Z")
[QUOTE=ouryL] Oh? I thought I loved tofu because I was Japanese. :dubious: [/QUOTE] Ahhh, but were you Japanese _before_ you had a soy-based formula as a baby? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2006, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861/40 "2006-12-13T15:22:46Z")
[QUOTE=if6was9] ::takes manly-man stance:: You can have my soy sauce when you pry it from my cold, dead hands! [/QUOTE] Yeh, that’s another thing . . . I read once that soy sauce was invented by Buddhists to provide a vegetarian alternative to the ubiquitous fish sauce. What could be gayer than that?! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wnd-put-down-the-tofu-honey-itll-only-make-you-gay/383861.md?page=3)