Boing Boing Blog posts about an article in The World & I titled The Feminization of American Culture: How Modern Chemicals May Be Changing Human Biology. Supposedly, chemicals that are getting into the environment have estrogen-like effects.

Plastics--including a plasticizer called phthalate, used in making flexible plastic for bottles of Coke, Pepsi, Sprite, Evian water, and so forth--are known to have estrogenic effects.

Damn, and I've been living on bottled water lately.