Let me tell you about Women

[uppityperson]

Most have XX chromosomes and are homo sapiens.

Let me tell you about Men.

Most have XY chromosomes and are homo sapiens.

[MineralMan]

1. A very astute observation.

Since you used "most" in there, I have no quibble with your statements.

[uppityperson]

2. Thank you. I tried to do one without the qualifier but could not come up with anything that would

hold up.

[MineralMan]

4. Qualifiers are usually good.

Not always, of course, but usually.

[el_bryanto]

3. I don't know - I never seen no chromosome. nt

[MineralMan]

6. You need one of those electron microscope thingies.

They're pretty spendy, though.

[Whisp]

10. Spendy, I like that word. Is it yours?

[TygrBright]

12. I believe the patent on that word belongs to the State of Minnesota. n/t

[MineralMan]

38. Nope. That's a Minnesnowta word, you betcha.

[Whisp]

43. Thanks, Margie. :)

[riqster]

11. Nope, it's easy to tell 'em apart.

Just ask them to pull down their "genes".




Thank you, I'll be here all week, tip your servers....

[hedda_foil]

21. DUzy!

[MineralMan]

39. LOL!

I'm all

[riqster]

42. It's a junior-high-school joke, but a good one.

[Brigid]

50. A junior high joke that's actually funny?

[riqster]

55. Yep, kinda like unicorns, hard to find.

[malaise]

47. DUzy

Most excellent

[AnneD]

14. In order to tell male from female chromosomes...

you have to pull down their genes.

Beat me to it rigster...like minds, rolling through the same gutter and all.

[riqster]

26. Great minds and all that.

Another rimshot:

[zappaman]

5. Thank you!

I learn something new every day!!!!

[Sissyk]

7. Well, there's nuttin controversial 'bout that!!

Why you want to be that way????

I'ma kick and recced anyway!

[Autumn]

8. Shocking theory you have there.

[riqster]

13. Lies from the pit of Hell!

[AnneD]

15. We won't even talk about...

All embroys starting out as females until they near the 7th week, per my genetics text.

Yes all fetuses start out is female, though they are already male or female at the DNA level. Actually all fetuses start out as tadpoles more or less. The changes occur if the fetus creates certain male hormones, which sometimes doesn't happen in a baby that is male DNA wise, and sometimes does happen in a fetus that is female DNA wise.

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070422070156AA5zJBU

[cyberswede]

9. Why do you hate America?

[Gemini Cat]

16. That's all I needed to know.

I suspected as much.

[MohRokTah]

17. The genotypical sexual expression of humans differs from members of the hymenoptera order

Bees, wasps, hornets, and ants are all members of the hymenoptera order.

The genotypical sexual expression in the hymenoptera order is dependent upon the number of chromosones. Those with female sexual expression are diploid and those with male sexual expression are haploid. This means that females are born from fertilized eggs where one set of chromosones come from each parent while males are born from unfertilized eggs and have only the chromosones produced by the mother.

So in essence, males in the hymenoptera order are nothing more than sexual reproduction instruments of their mothers, allowing them to pass on only genetic material from their mother.

And now you have a bit of an understanding as to why the only fertile female in a hive filled with unfertile female workers is referred to as a "queen", while the males of the colony are nothing more than "drones".

[sulphurdunn]

33. We WASPS are members of

the order too, but Catholics and Jews aren't, and don't you forget it.

[Politicalboi]

18. Let me tell you about "the" women

They had it better back in the day when all they had to do was raise a family, and listen to their man. Then the government came along, and made them slaves, and made them think they could actually break that glass ceiling.

Your title reminded me of our pal Bundy.

[Helen Borg]

19. Was thinking the same!

[Politicalboi]

20. Glad I wasn't the only one

[riqster]

28. Not a bit of it, me too.

[freshwest]

30. Hey, I started to say, 'No thanks, Clive!' Thanks all above for posting first.

[riqster]

31. His would have started, "Let me tell you about the Woman".

If he is consistent.

[freshwest]

34. Got a point there. Singular not plural; but he means ALL, which is plural. Tired of being told what

to feel and think by men in general.

My father said I could be whatever I put my mind to and not let bullies, define who I was.

Many males since had so many ideas about how women should feel.

Michelle says it all here:

[riqster]

41. Yah hey, he meant plural I think. Like "the cattle", or "the chicken".

It's a dark place, where he keeps his head.

[MannyGoldstein]

22. Trying to divide Democrats, I see.

Troll!

[AAO]

23. You're shittin' us, right?

Why do they call them the "X" and "Y" chromosomes?

[MohRokTah]

24. .

[BlancheSplanchnik]

27. then X and Y are lies.

Obviously, that's twisted socks and colostomy stoma.

[Sissyk]

40. lol!!

[AAO]

29. Spooky! I think I remember that now.

[freshwest]

35. Because the chromosomes look that way. Wimmenz haz 8. Menz haz 7.

'Y' is missing a 'leg.' Don't hate Wimmenz for having 8:

Menz: X + Y = 7

Wimmenz: X + X = 8

Don't even start about:



It's ALL good down here on Mother Earth. Besides, Teh Menz are a lot of fun.

[riqster]

57. I'm a man, and pretty much a pain in the ass.

But I do cook, and know from wines, beers, and booze. So teh feemalez toleratez mee.

[DreamGypsy]

54. Just the usual mistaken legacy...

...for calling them X and Y.

It was first noted that the X chromosome was special in 1890 by Hermann Henking in Leipzig. Henking was studying the testicles of Pyrrhocoris and noticed that one chromosome did not take part in meiosis. Chromosomes are so named because of their ability to take up staining. Although the X chromosome could be stained just as well as the others, Henking was unsure whether it was a different class of object and consequently named it X element, which later became X chromosome after it was established that it was indeed a chromosome.

The idea that the X chromosome was named after its similarity to the letter "X" is mistaken. All chromosomes normally appear as an amorphous blob under the microscope and only take on a well defined shape during mitosis. This shape is vaguely X-shaped for all chromosomes. It is entirely coincidental that the Y chromosome, during mitosis, has two very short branches which can look merged under the microscope and appear as the descender of a Y-shape.

It was first suggested that the X chromosome was involved in sex determination by Clarence Erwin McClung in 1901 after comparing his work on locusts with Henking's and others. McClung noted that only half the sperm received an X chromosome. He called this chromosome an accessory chromosome and insisted, correctly, that it was a proper chromosome, and theorized, incorrectly, that it was the male determining chromosome.

The Y chromosome was identified as a sex-determining chromosome by Nettie Stevens at Bryn Mawr College in 1905 during a study of the mealworm Tenebrio molitor. Edmund Beecher Wilson discovered the same mechanisms the same year in an independent manner. Stevens proposed that chromosomes always existed in pairs and that the Y chromosome was the pair of the X chromosome discovered in 1890 by Hermann Henking. She realized that the previous idea of Clarence Erwin McClung, that the X chromosome determines sex, was wrong and that sex determination is, in fact, due to the presence or absence of the Y chromosome. Stevens named the chromosome "Y" simply to follow on from Henking's "X" alphabetically.[4][5]

The idea that the Y chromosome was named after its similarity to the letter "Y" is mistaken. All chromosomes normally appear as an amorphous blob under the microscope and only take on a well-defined shape during mitosis. This shape is vaguely X-shaped for all chromosomes. It is entirely coincidental that the Y chromosome, during mitosis, has two very short branches which can look merged under the microscope and appear as the descender of a Y-shape.

[LynneSin]

25. If it wasn't for women the population would have died out thousands of years ago

Just saying!

Of course to be fair the same thing could be said if there were no men.

[riqster]

32. I heard it said like this:

"If it weren't for women taking up with the wrong sort of men, the human race would have long ago died out", or something like it.

Hard to argue with, I would say, regardless of one's gender.

[LynneSin]

45. I'm talking human species only

Millions if we're talking all species

[LynneSin]

48. Man it's a rough crowd tonight

[LynneSin]

51. Next time you feel like getting nit-picking call the Wham!bulance

And wake me up before you Go Go

[freshwest]

44. Very true!

[panader0]

36. I got yer chromosomes right here buddy!

[Taitertots]

52. Let me tell you about everybody

We all need to love each other (especially our enemies), help each other (especially our enemies), and build a world that we want to share with each other. Then we will find that the people we thought were are enemies are really just as important as we are.

[scarletwoman]

53. It would take too long to explain the thought process - even if I could - that led me to think of

Jame Tiptree, Jr's (Alice Bradley Sheldon) novella, "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_Houston,_Do_You_Read%3F

To anyone who might have read this story - maybe you'll understand.

To those who have not read it - please just kindly ignore this post. It would take more time and patience than either you or I have to explain it.

To uppityperson - your OP is right on. My mind just slid sideways...

[AAO]

56. Could you imagine the horror

if males were created with YY chromosomes?

[Flying Squirrel]

58. "Sapiens"... the Latin word for "wise"

Methinks we should change the species name to more accurately reflect reality.