Eight Questions About the Human Body That Kids Always Ask

• AnUnSi
  April 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am

  Too bad there’s one falsehood at the linked site. It’s pretty stupid, since the author contradicts him/herself in the same paragraph. Here is what is stated:

  “So, that’s why men have nipples because at some point (for a very short amount of time) everyone is a girl!”

  The above is an “old radical feminists’ tale” (an updated form of an “old wives’ tale”), invented [c. 1970] to make women and girls feel superior to men and boys!

  The truth is that it is NEVER the case that “everyone is a girl.” As the article itself states, a human being has either an “XX” or an “XY” sex chromosome from the moment his life starts (at fertilization = conception). A person with “XX” is a girl from the very first cell until death, while a person with “XY” is a boy until death.

• the robot child
  April 14th, 2008 at 12:09 pm

  The author was putting it in simple terms, so everyone could make sense of it.

  I have a book, “why do men have nipples,” laying somewhere around my house. It answers questions like these and many other ones. Good toilet read. Very good toilet read.

• L
  April 14th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

  Oh, but it’s so much more FUN to tell your little boy that he was once a girl!

  Maybe we weren’t all technically girls, but if we all looked the same until a certain point, then you could say our bodies showed the characteristics of being female. But I don’t know how you’d explain that to a six-year-old kid without confusing them all to hell. I’d rather just use the “old wives’ tale” and risk being called a radical feminist by people like AnUnSi.

  Too bad the article doesn’t say how you should explain things like androgen insensitivity syndrome and XX male syndrome. That might be interesting…

• Alannah
  April 14th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  My kids never asked stuff like this. When I asked my daughter where she thought she came from she told me she thought we got her at the pet store. I have (really) no idea where she got that. Maybe it’s because we keep her chained up in the yard and feed her kibble?

• anon
  April 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

  “I also didn’t know bilirubin was named after William Rueben.”

  Did you not read the following sentence that begins, “That very poor joke aside”?

• CheeseDuck
  April 14th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

  Where do babies come from?

• Selvo
  April 14th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

  Its sad when you read this and I dont know what theyre saying lol. Then again, im still only 15

• Lore
  April 14th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

  That was great. I work at a daycare center and get asked random questions like this all the time! Good read.

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