There’s only two of us left in the lab. IS is a post-doc, she’s in the lab part time, and she’s also teaching a “biology of women” class at a local girls only college.
IS: …and we were discussing sex determination and how female is the “default” sex, that a baby will develop into a female without male hormonal stimulation
ESC: I’ve heard that
IS: but I don’t believe it! our bodies are WAY too complicated for that, there must be something else going on, there can’t just be ONE THING that makes the difference between a male and a female.
ESC: well…I don’t know…if you think about it, all the pathways for being female are there in a male fetus, they’re just turned off once you get expression of….SRY? I think? And also, for every female part, there’s an equivalent male part, in males all those pieces just become something else one the female default is shut off.
IS: Not EVERY part. Males don’t have the equivalent of a uterus.
ESC: hmmm…yeah…good point. OK, well all the FUN bits are equivalent.
IS: hehehehehehehe
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LMFAO!!!
It is perfectly logical that females are the default sex.
SRY makes the Y chromosome go into arrested development, staying a much simpler being than the more developed woman.
I would be offended if all of this weren’t true.
What did happen to my uterus? And for the record, I truly enjoy being the simpler of the two sexes.
Yeah, but we get to look at our tits anytime we want to, Seth. I’ve been told (by men) that’s a bonus.
(There’s only two uf us? Seriously? Maybe you mean There ARE only two of us? Just sayin…)
You guys are geeks. And dirty. I like that.
Hmm. I was always taught that the ovaries turned into the testes, the vagina the scrotum, and the uterus the penis. I guess this is not exactly true? What I want to know, is where are women’s prostate glands?
Labia = scrotum
Overies = testes
clitoris = head of penis
G-spot = prostate, or so I’ve heard. this is why, guys, it feels GOOD if you, you know…put something up there. It doesn’t have to mean you’re gay.
I am SO wet! One more dirty word from you and I’ll… have to get a dictionary.