Hell hath no fury like a man emasculated: The recent brouhaha over TSA security scans and pat-downs makes that clear. And it’s also no coincidence that one of the most widely shared environmental concerns is over feminizing hormones and the endocrine disruptors that simulate them.

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Can I catch womanhood by drinking the water?

Perhaps, but don’t blame women for it, says a new UCSF study. Yes, there are almost 12 million American women who take the pill, and they do excrete some of its estrogen in their urine. But all humans excrete hormones in their waste, and sewage treatment plants handle them readily.

The real culprit of the effeminacy — err, estrogen in the water is agriculture. That’s right, all those dairy cows also excrete lady hormones in their waste, and when agricultural waste is used untreated as fertilizer, problems arise. The other major culprit of our threatened masculinity is soy. And, no, not from tofu, but from the soy that’s fed to feedlot-raised livestock.

Birth control pills account for less than 1 percent of the estrogen in the water.

So there you have it: It’s not the feminist on the pill or the tofu-eating vegan man who make your masculinity catawampus, but the über-macho industrial rancher who thinks environmentalism is for sissies.