News:

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

Main Menu

Why menstruation?

Started by Kai, December 21, 2011, 09:19:09 PM

Previous topic - Next topic

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

Quote from: Secret Agent GARBO on December 23, 2011, 08:48:13 PM
I'm not saying that I, personally, agree with the fetuses-are-invasive-parasites language or that we should feel actually threatened. I'm just saying that the language *of* the article makes sense for Suu's comment.

Yes, it completely does... that's what I meant to say here:

Quote
Quote from: Nigel on December 23, 2011, 01:14:29 AM
Really, though, it's only horrifying if we accept the adversarial language the article has burdened it with. I mean, I played along with that too, but honestly (as inconvenient as it is) should we be horrified, or feel enmity toward, a highly effective reproductive process which helps our bodies select for healthier offspring? We love to think of ourselves as individuals but we are also members of a species, and as such our purpose is largely to perpetuate the species, which is not necessarily a bad thing (even though we are fairly good at making it a bad thing).

I have some trouble with the wording of the article.
"I'm guessing it was January 2007, a meeting in Bethesda, we got a bag of bees and just started smashing them on the desk," Charles Wick said. "It was very complicated."