"Clancy and Hazard are both keen to complicate this simplistic picture of conception. Sperm are drawn in by uterine waves, Clancy asserts, 'a special type of muscle contraction that helps control the speed at which sperm reach the egg, propelling them on a journey that would otherwise be too long for them to make on their own.' Hazard also emphasizes the organ’s strength. 'The womb is a muscle,' she writes. 'We can compare it quite accurately to a clenched fist, not only in size, but in power.'"
What simplistic pictures are you keen to complicate in the name of womanly self-esteem?
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"The womb?" Not "the uterus" or the "lower front organ"? How birthing-specific of them.
Any woman who's given birth could've told them the womb is a strong muscle. They're called contractions for a reason.
Of course, if it had turned out that the uterus fights like mad to prevent the egg's fertilization, we'd be hearing about the valiant womb's doomed struggle against those rapey-rape gametes.
"A fantasy persists, in the popular imagination, of sperm as Olympic swimmers..."
Well, their's probably aren't. YMMV.
The next gender-fluid paternity lawsuit defense: "I didn't impregnate that menstruating person. Their uterine muscles grabbed my sperm and pulled them into the egg. They chose to become pregnant. I'm a pre-operation female transgender person and merely engaged in routine pre-op lesbian sex, so I cannot logically or legally be a 'father.'"
Is he writing about girl wombs or boy wombs?
'We can compare it quite accurately to a clenched fist, not only in size, but in power.'
I'm sure this power will stop just short of taking responsibility for premature ejaculation.
A fantasy persists, in the popular imagination, of sperm as Olympic swimmers
The real news: Trans people have ruined swimming, so we're off to find a new metaphor!
Girl power!
This shit is getting so tiresome...
I've always assumed that something like this was happening, and I further assumed that female orgasm enhanced the process.
Wonder woman is real and living in 21st century America!
I once read that if a sperm cell were the size of a whale, it could get from California to Japan in 90 minutes.
"What simplistic pictures are you keen to complicate in the name of womanly self-esteem?"
Exactly what I was thinking but you said it better.
Does this mean Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex" wasn't a documentary?
Another illusion shattered.
I keep seeing statements claiming that menstruation is stigmatized. By who? How?
"The stigma surrounding menstruation"
What stigma?
Women shouldn't compete as swimmers, but as pools. Sperm have broad shoulders and huge aerobic capacity so women could never beat them at swimming.
Henry VIII killed one of his wives because she didn't bear him a son. I learned years ago that since male sex comes from a Y chromosome and only males have Y chromosome, the problem was with Henry's sperm: the Y's just didn't get there fast enough. Now I see that the problem was really with his wife's uterine contractions: they didn't draw a Y chromosome to the egg.
So Henry was right. Off with her head!
Tadpoles swim. Currents may affect them but, swim they do. Let us celebrate tadpoles over eddies.
I'm 71 years old from a conservative Irish Catholic family. I'm a guy with three older sisters and two younger sisters. In what universe is menstration considered something to be embarrassed about. I'm old enough to remember Tampex ads in every magizine in the dentist office with the girl with Breck Girl looks riding a bike in white slacks. She was smiling.
In the 1980's PBS had a scientific series on sperm competition in the womb. They actually had cameras inside the woman during intercourse. This is old news.
A fantasy persist, men imagine women that actually participate in love making and have orgasms.
so, the Next Thing they'll say is?
Ova in Women that orgasm during sex, are more likely to be fertilized; due to increased 'uterine waves'?
Which is to say, that women being assaulted are LESS likely to become pregnant (as in 'real rapes')?
Mind You! gilbar is NOT saying that.. But it SURE SOUNDS like They are
It's almost as if male and female bodies were meant to work together to create new life.
(Did anybody who has ever experienced cramps or birth think the uterus was passive?)
"A fantasy persists, in the popular imagination, of sperm as Olympic swimmers, racing toward an egg that passively awaits. fertilization"
I find myself repeatedly trapped in the Homer Simpson condition. When confronted by the enigmatic or the inexplicable my right hemisphere wants to write something profound and memorable, but my dominant hemisphere can only manage Holy Macaroni!
Holy Macaroni! Two Althouse posts touching on goofiness proceeding from Kaiju-scale weasel words on two successive days. Is a pattern emerging? Probably. Giant monsters do tend to gather rather than disperse. First one arrives, then another. Then a third, and so on, until Toho runs outs of suit actors. Thus we have "A fantasy persists, in the popular imagination..." arriving to keep company with " According to one widely held theory..." and perhaps team up to kick Western civilization to a pulp. (Where is Mothra when we need her? Pupating again? Or out recruiting wee twins who do Everly Brothers songs at Karaoke parties?)
The popular imagination, I am unsure whether this is Clancy's formulation or AlSayyad's, the cited article containing more than a few syntactic ambiguities. Nevertheless, the phrase is worthless middle-school debate team rhetoric. Everyone has his own imagination, obviously. Nor is the spiel about sperm as Olympic swimmers a fantasy, it's a picturesque analogy containing fantastic elements, chiefly the attribution of intent to the gametes, but it is Clancy's picturesque analogy (or AlSayyad's) and not the fevered emanation of a hive mind.
Speaking of fantasy, Clancy is a "biological anthropologist" and not, evidently, an anatomist or a physicist; evidently because it seems she has an inadequate understanding of wave motion in a fluid or the human uterus. Real science has effective set rules. First, gather data. Then, after a long and tedious process of peer review of your data alone, you might be fortunate enough to theorize. Wokesters want to reverse this order because of feelz. This upends science into a religion, and scientists into a priesthood, which may be the wokesters goal. After all, real science is the signal accomplishment of overwhelmingly white males from Pythagoras to now, and gender equity demands its destruction.
Wokeism is to science as a nice hot July afternoon is to a freshly caught fish.
What we still don't know about menstruation can, I'm assured, be explained by Dylan Mulvaney.
The courageous bravery of the utterly fearless New Yorker Magazine in taking on this stigmatized topic , and in highlighting as the sole instance of stigmatization, events taking place a century ago, cannot be overemphasized. How can their writers and editors endure the furious rage of a public, so deplorably attached to their precious guns and stigmas? And also, a big shoutout to the female reproductive system, so unfairly burdened by false claims of passivity. Its morale must be in terrible condition, no doubt explaining the declining birth rate. It's about time that the ridiculously inflated perceptions of sperm swimming excellence were adjusted to reality. Please note for the record that nothing said here in any way impugns the extraordinary qualities of trans woman sperm.
I’m imagining
Todd Akin saying “a woman’s body has a way of shutting that down”
So they’re not Olympic swimmers but world class surfers?
“During pregnancy, a fetus is exposed to high levels of maternal hormones. The withdrawal of those hormones after birth can lead to blood-tinged discharge, resembling a period. Hazard is used to reassuring new mothers that this bleeding is perfectly normal…”
Not only do the mother’s hormones affect female babies, male babies as well as female newborns may have swollen breasts. Powerful uterus and powerful hormones. Vive Les Femmes!
“By the third day after birth, breast swelling may also be seen in newborn boys and girls. Such newborn breast swelling does not last, but it is a common concern among new parents. The breast swelling should go away by the second week after birth as the hormones leave the newborn's body.”
No stigma, and no emphasis, and no discussion because there is no redeeming value.
So they’re not Olympic swimmers but world class surfers?
An excellent analogy. Cowabunga, baby.
That said, human rights from conception, human rites from her Choice.
I keep hearing about this "stigma" around menstruation. Is there really a stigma? In today's 'tell everyone about everything via social media'? Really?
I am skeptical.
Not only does the uterus propel the sperm, the egg helps them out by releasing chemical signals. It’s also possible that if the egg doesn’t “like” the sperm, the sperm could face chemical obstacles.
“How the egg chooses the sperm: “cryptic female choice””
Chemical signals from the egg may present another barrier, as new research shows that eggs can influence the number of sperm the body retains and/or the sperm’s swimming performance.
Lazy ass sperm.
The uterine wave vs waive.
"A fantasy persists, in the popular imagination, of sperm as Olympic swimmers
When I was a teenager I had the school microscope for the summer. Yep, I looked at my sperm. It was like viewing a puddle teeming with silver tadpoles, Olympic swimmers never came to mind.
Are there transgender sperm? The world is wondering with bated breath.
Does this mean Woody Allen's "Everything You Wanted to Know about Sex" wasn't a documentary?
Perhaps not, but the ejaculation sequence was one of the best things he's done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNpHqA9EKHI
I should say “help propel” the sperm, they can propel themselves too, but may need help, bless them.
>>"What simplistic pictures are you keen to complicate in the name of womanly self-esteem?"
It's the Althouse Rule: When comparing men and women, whatever a woman does must be superior...
Who knew this rule worked all the way down to the cellular level?
"We can compare it quite accurately to a clenched fist, not only in size, but in power."
Now I can't get Englebert Humperdinck singing "Please Release Me Let Me Go" out of my head.
This comments thread reads like a well-fueled conference of writers cooking up jokes for a really good comedy show.
You guys owe me a new keyboard!
So much for Hank and his super sperm in Rapper's Delight.
I'm disillusioned.
Gee, and I thought I had won that race against a billion other guys all by myself seventy years ago. Darn. My self-esteem just plummeted.
Inga: "Not only do the mother’s hormones affect female babies, male babies as well as female newborns may have swollen breasts. Powerful uterus and powerful hormones. Vive Les Femmes!"
There is no such thing as male or female according to the trans-radicals that dominate the democratical party.
And you clearly must have meant to write "Vive Les Femmes....especially the biological male Femmes!"
There was never a fantasy. The vaginal muscles massage the penis. The uterine contraction draws sperm to meet his conceived bliss with an egg matrimony.
Separately, the rectum functions to absorb water and nutrients, and its contractions force out waste and alien objects. The second function is why AIDS was primarily a transgenderdemic, which persists in the popular imagination as denial in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of the politically congruent, and the thousands willfully aborted for the sake of social progress.
in the popular imagination
How can anyone claim that??
They want to tell you what to imagine.
https://youtu.be/lM2-8se6pp8
The Miracle of Life
PBS
I found a new fella to listen to: Tony Evans.
“When woman was created from the side of man- he lost 1/2 of himself. In order to regain that missing 1/2- he gains more than he ever lost… “. He’s a great listen- to my ears.
Is it true that male sperm are 1st out of the gate and die to timing either get into the sweet spot of the egg- or die trying? I wonder if trans realize sperm have sex differentiation?
A Persistent Fantasy is that Biden is not senile.
"There is no such thing as male or female according to the trans-radicals that dominate the democratical party."
Drago nailed it. What Inga said is hurtful and demeaning to the transvestite community.
Male pregnancy is real and Inga's a TERF. Who knew!
I stopped reading the linked article when I got to "people with uteruses".
Looking back on Popular Progressions, what a great time to be conceived.
Gee, and I thought I had won that race against a billion other guys
That's what she what she wants you to believe, where, in fact, you were her choice, and his sincere effort sealed the deal with a "kiss".
but the whip-like tail...
Binary precedents: one female's egg, one male's sperm.
In all seriousness, that is not one of my fantasies.
'The womb is a muscle,' she writes. 'We can compare it quite accurately to a clenched fist, not only in size, but in power.'"
Womb Lives Matter?
So, does this mean that men and there sperm have no control, only the woman’s musculature “hand”? Boy is that going to change child support matters,
I once saw a video taken inside the vagina during sex. It focused on the cervix (I think, I am a bit vague about the various parts) and it was like a pulsing, toothless, mouth. At orgasm, it sort of clenched. Again, apologies for the description. The film said that it was grasping the semen and sucking it in.
That's a really poor description of the process but I can do no better.
I do remember that it was pretty frightening. If I had not known any better I would have been scared to death to get my penis anywhere near that monster.
If I were an 18 year old virgin, it might have scared me gay.
John Henry
Amexpat, thanks. Exactly what I was remembering.
My wad is shot, my energy spent, so I wish you all a lovely tomorrow.
Amexpat, thanks. Exactly what I was remembering.
My wad is shot, my energy spent, so I wish you all a lovely tomorrow.
As the sperm approach the egg they send out signals which suggest to the female immune system that the sperm are not alien intruders but part of the female system so that the female immune system does not mobilize to destroy them. Thus we see that trannies are essential to human reproduction.
Fish Story 1908 vagina cam
I'd like to show you some ink blots now to find out what certain shapes and colors remind you of.'
'You can save yourself the trouble, Doctor. Everything reminds me of sex.'
'Does it?' cried Major Sanderson with delight, as though unable to believe his ears. 'Now we're really getting somewhere! Do you ever have any good sex dreams?'
'My fish dream is a sex dream.'
'No, I mean real sex dreams.the kind where you grab some naked bitch by the neck and pinch her and punch her in the face until she's all bloody and then throw yourself down to ravish her and burst into tears because you love her and hate her so much you don't know what else to do. That's the kind of sex dreams I like to talk about. Don't you ever have sex dreams like that?'
Yossarian reflected a moment with a wise look. 'That's a fish dream,' he decided.
We know enough. We know women are incredibly hormonal (especially with regard to menstruation/menopause which can affect behavior. )I am not sure what the stigmatization is in 2023 when products are readily available and even sponsor athletics
so that the female immune system does not mobilize to destroy them
The womb commits fraud and deception with empathetic appeal to lure the sperm to the egg, where he is consumed, cannibalized, and assimilated. Resistance is futile.
John Henry we saw the same PBS film from Britian.
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