Nobody knows why there are women and there are men?

[andyoldlabour]

According to Ellie Mae O'Hagan of the CLASS think tank:

"I don't know why some people are women and some people are men, nobody on this panel does"

Crikey, I know things are bad, but I didn't know we had reached Defcon 1 already.

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It would be amazing if this is all people remember her for in 5 years.

Or six months, preferably.

Do we seriously have a whole generation of people that don't know why there are two sexes and what differentiates those sexes?

I see many surprise pregnancies with cries of "I don't know how it happened"

@HKI83vcWA

Your average 3 year old knows this.

Has her or his or its brain actually fallen out?

not to mention most of the plant and animal kingdom

The answer that the think tank are looking for is found if they look a theory of Implicit androcentrism: Men are human, women are gendered!

What made her say that? I don't know how gravity works to be fair, or even why it exists. But I just don't see the relevance. Then there was her insistence that the majority of women agree with her , as a substitute for a decent argument perhaps.

It's the new 'I don't see colour' innit?

And we all know how that ended up. She's going to be wincing in a couple of years.

@NeedsCharging
I see many surprise pregnancies with cries of "I don't know how it happened"

OMG. We are heading for a very crazy time if this confusion of children continues. I'm really worried what they are teaching my DS in school. I'm going to make it a mission to find out

Every living thing on the planet inherts its chromosomes from both parents- apples fir example have 17 - humans have 46.. in humans deixyribonucleic acid [DNA] the chemical compound that contains the genetic instructions that develop and direct the activity of the organism. They are made of two paired strands each is made ofbfour chemical units called nucleotides. The bases are adenine [A] rhyming [T] guanine [G] and cytogenetics [C] Bases on opposite strands pair specifically: A always with T and C always with G. In total our genome contains 3 billion of these pairs and they reside in the 23 pairs of chromosomes within the nucleus of all of our cells - each chromosomes contains hundreds to thousands of genes, these carry the instructions for making proteins - each of the circa 30,000 genes makes on average three proteins.

In human procreation the makes sends his genome to the female egg at the point of fertilisation 50% of the chromosomes from each parent must be assigned to next generation - this is a complex and as a result gender is the last thing to be assigned.

Evolution is a theory not law , but I agree with you generally- it is the code in our genes that determines the future generations of the species

@WeeBisom

Why does no one ever ask these people what the shit they are talking about ? That makes no sense.

This is what I do not understant (and really worries me). They talk bullshit but no one challenges them

Sex dimorphism is the best way evolution found to mix genes. Genes need to be mixed to counter the evolutionary arms race with pathogens.

Your welcome Elle (and I never even went to uni).

This woman is thick as mince

this is a complex and as a result gender is the last thing to be assigned.

Err, I think you are a bit confused.

Every cell in the body has a whole copy of an individuals DNA except the germ cells (sperm or egg, otherwise called gammets) which have only 50% of the individuals DNA.
When a female (egg) large gammet combines with a male (sperm) small gammet it produces an individual with 50% of each parents DNA (but obviously 100% DNA needed to make the organism)
The sex of the individual is determined at conception (when the sperm and egg combine) so from the instant of the creation of the new organism.

The 'gender' does indeed come later (if at all).
Possibly some time in the sixth form? when the individual discovers hair dye?

Wow.
That's an impressive absence of basic education. I learned all about the birds and the bees at primary school.

sexual dimorphism, is a term for the differences in appearance between males and females of the samespecies it has nothing to do with inheritance- and you don't mix genes - they come as a sub set of chromosomes which do get mixed finally with regard to pathogens- how often do you find an individual with a one off natural immunity to a disease? Not very often that is genetic- it is your immune system that deals with pathogens.

" this is a complex and as a result gender is the last thing to be assigned."
Do you mean sex? Gender is social construct rather than biological fact.

I’d never heard of this person and she does indeed seem very stupid.

Every cell in your body does not have an entire copy of DNA -you obviously don't comprehend the size of the genome, at fertilisation the inheritance is 50% chromosomes from parent 23 +23 and the assignment is complex because of dominance - just because it happens instantly does not mean it isn't complex

Sex is determined upon conception. Spermatozoa carry either an X or a Y chromosome.

Incidentally, it's adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine

Yes I did mean sex

Errr, I'm sorry, wtaf?!?! Did they cut out the bit where everyone starting laughing and she said she was joking???

The 'gender' does indeed come later (if at all).
Possibly some time in the sixth form? when the individual discovers hair dye?

Funny thing, though... you get males and females throughout the animal kingdom... goats, dogs, gorillas, aardvarks. Wonder why? There must be some reason, surely? Can't wait for scientists to figure it out.

It isn't the male that solely determines the sex of a child- XX is a girl and XY for a boy - the chromosomes need to combine and that assignment is one last to be made.

Every living thing on the planet inherts its chromosomes from both parents

Poor Prokaryotes, overlooked again, despite that they vastly outnumber all those Eukaryotes with their fancy-schmancy sexual reproduction (and do all the important stuff), pffft.