Comments on: Eight Questions About the Human Body That Kids Always Ask

By: Lore

Lore — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:09:07 +0000

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

By: Selvo

Selvo — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:28:05 +0000

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

By: CheeseDuck

CheeseDuck — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:22:56 +0000

Where do babies come from?

By: anon

anon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:46:19 +0000

“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”?

By: Alannah

Alannah — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:04:24 +0000

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?

By: L

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:02:08 +0000

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…

By: the robot child

the robot child — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:09:48 +0000

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.

By: AnUnSi

AnUnSi — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:15:50 +0000

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.