You probably prepare yourself for your children asking questions about the facts of life, but children are full of questions about everything, especially things you never thought about the answer to. Why does hair go gray? The first answer you think of is, “because children drive parents crazy,” but that won’t satisfy their curiosity. Why is urine yellow? I didn’t know the correct answer to that one, and I also didn’t know bilirubin was named after William Rueben. Here are eight such questions, with the short answers for each. Link -via Digg
"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.
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.
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...
Did you not read the following sentence that begins, "That very poor joke aside"?