I'm not familiar with penguins per se, but I do know that there have been problems with artificial insemination before in some species. Either their biology just makes it difficult/impossible or there's never been a successful impregnation using the methods we have right now. If I had to guess, that's the case with…

Declaring small breasted women to childlike sounds like 'censor board' logic to me, but to then forbid anything other than small, hairless labia is completely counter to that. As they say in the documentary, small, hairless labia like that makes the genitals look more prepubescent and childlike.

Wouldn't the fetuses be reacting more to the vibrations of their mother's voice than the sound of it?

The thinning of the uterine lining isn't necessarily designed to keep fertilized eggs from implanting, rather its meant to make it inhospitable to sperm. So, hormonal BC is a three pronged approach: make it hard for the sperm to get to the egg, keep the egg from releasing, and if both of those parts fail, keep the…

I just wanted to say your response to @anomalytea was very much a poignant sum of the problem with the whole anti-choice movement. They are willing to sacrifice women and doctors for fetuses. Culture of Life my fuckin ass.

For the first couple of months after we announced our elopement I kept getting mail addressed to Mrs. Hisfirstname Hislastname or Mrs. Myfirstname Hislastname. This after a huge hulabaloo was made at the reception because I decided to keep my name. So its not that they didn't know, its that they decided to go ahead…

Pretty much this. The clitoris and the penis are analogous body parts in females and males, much like nipples. They have different functions, some that we may not even fully comprehend, but they are obviously still being selected for evolutionary speaking. Even if the male nipple and female clitoris are completely…

Ya know, this is so true. I have a pretty big chest and wearing turtlenecks and high necked shirts make me look like I have a HUGE RACK (like they actually look like a rack), but when I wear a deep v-neck with a cami under it, my chest looks normal (normal for it) sized, maybe even a bit smaller. Also, plain or no…

I think the crucial information here is that this experiment contrasted patrilineal and matrilineal societies which mostly just denotes lines of inheritance not power balances. Patriarchies and matriarchies on the other hand are all about whose in power. The patrilineal tribe is very likely to also be patriarchal,…

And that's your right, what with free speech and all, just be prepared to be critiqued and criticized for your insensitive and abrasive word choices, because that's our right as well since free speech works both ways ;)

"Lame" is a word used to describe people with physical disabilities, mostly people who have problems with their legs and cannot walk like a typical able-bodied person. It can be insulting to hear a label that applies to you used as a pejorative or an insult, just like hearing words associated with femininity (girl,…

Um.... using lame as an insult to describe why using retard as an insult is bad is... still ableism, and also possibly ironic.

That's assuming that you're going through an airport that has the body scanners. If they don't have the body scanners and you get singled out (either randomly or because of suspicion) you have no option other than to submit to the pat downs.

When breeding dogs, the mom had to be the larger breed/dog otherwise the fetuses can become to large to be viable or dangerous for the mother to deliver. One of my friends is really into Papillon dog breeding and she adopted a tiny lil Papillon female that was going to be bred but turned out to be too small (she is…

I could be mistaken in this (I only partially understand the military pay system), but it could also keep them from receiving the same monetary bonuses that men get. When my husband was in Iraq he got pay for being in a combat zone, and I'm assuming that solider's put in even more direct line-of-fire place sthan he…

Ya know, if all the celebrities or rich people they picketed did this.... it might, *might* actually deter these horrible people from continuing their horribleness.

Female, biologically speaking, is the sex that carries eggs. Parthenogensis is basically fancy myosis that lets them create a new (non cloned) organism from just their eggs. Males of a species are the ones that have sperm and are only present in species that reproduce sexually. Also, female/male are sexes, not…

This will surely seem like a small quibble, but is actually a way that bias shows through in science. If the results of the study are purportedly that earlier menarche is correlated with higher likelihood of having girls, then it should not have reported by percentage of boys.

I'd hazard to guess that its not that women see colors differently, its that we are socially primed to notice and name different hues whereas men are socially primed against such actions as it is considered feminine to concerned with color/art/decoration.

It's so adorable.