i love breathing "other"!!!
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Mmm, nitrogen, my love. *passes out*
shoulda gone with the nitrous oxide.. still passes out
I keep reading about how they don't have enough helium supply. Is everything fake news?
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I prefer Hydrogen. While I am not Hydrogen, I say everything else must be.
I have a question for kind of the whole thread in general, regarding the gametes discussion. Isn't it the case that a human is born with all the eggs they'll ever have? So like if you aren't born with any, you'll never make any later? And if so, isn't the only way to produce eggs to become pregnant with a child and make their eggs for them?
e: I'm getting the impression that this comment is interpreted as a transphobic argument. To be clear, I don't think sex is binary, and that even if it were, it would have no bearing on gender.
I've added a link to the discussion which inspired the question.
Update: It's possible for an intersex person to have both eggs and sperm, so I think that definition of sex as a binary collapses on itself, right?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovotesticular_syndrome (I'm not sure I agree with characterizing any kind of intersex as disordered, but I also don't know enough about it to make a strong argument and also I didn't write the page.)
The word "make" does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to pregnancy. A word like "nurture" might fit better. Once the sperm and egg combine, it starts doing its own thing, the mother's body just provides resources for it to continue growing and a safe place to do so for the first 9 months give or take.
So the way to make human egg cells would be to either be conceived as a female and have everything go well enough to grow those eggs, or probably some other methods involving introducing various chemicals to unspecialized cells to trick them into behaving as if that was happening.
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