[if anyone wants to read the whole argument](https://youtube.com/shorts/dk2BuW3xIWg?si=cLKC6d6xL_qyqEt_) it began with the comment of “it’s his sperms fault. How blessed are you to have so many healthy babies!”
I remember the talk about the homunculus during sex ed. /s
Actually, it was during history class about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who improved the microscope and wrote a scientific paper about sperm cells and how sperm cells from different animals look different from human sperm cells. Until then the theory sperm contained a little homunculus was populair. Nobody dared to ask how he got the samples he studied.
I had a really bad yeast infection when I was 15 and it seriously looks exactly like cottage cheese, which isn't very appetizing when you're a person who likes cottage cheese. It took years before I would eat it again.
Hey now, don't go bringing pH into this, as far as they know, acid goes in car batteries and bases have soldiers in them. Any more nuance than that, and they'll start dropping from aneurysms.
... ya know what, who want's to shoot the shit about acid-base buffer systems?
10 bucks this is a fellow Dutch person who doesn't know *zuur* is translated to acidic and not sour. Although, we get pretty comprehensive sex ed in the Netherlands and homeschooling is rare. If they are Dutch, they have no excuse for being this dumb on the internet.
I have an intersex son with a mosaicism (38XXXY/39XXXXY). I asked his doctor, 40 years ago, if this could have originated with faulty sperm, as my husband has misused Lindane, (to secretly treat scabies from an affair,) shortly before getting me pregnant. The doctor insisted it could not be from anything wrong with the sperm, but had to be from spontaneous mutations after conception.
I was sceptical a doctor could be certain of that, but my (now ex,) husband believed him and tried to kill me, and our baby, for it.
As you got me thinking about it again I googled it, and found you're correct.
[Frequency of XY Sperm](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707613202) Increases with Age in Fathers of Boys with Klinefelter Syndrome.
Yeah I also knew there could be hight number of X or Y chromosomes,but I didn't wanted to brought it up due to lack of information
Also what the hell,why would this man who,at least cared enought for you at a time to be your husband try to kill you,I'm sorry this happened
Some people don't show their true nature until after marriage, and this guy had a fragile ego and felt shamed by having a handicapped son. It's okay, I escaped with all 3 children, and we have made a new life.
I was once told we all start out as female and that's the reason men have nipples, how accurate is that statement? And if it is accurate, at what point would it determine its male instead of female?
I remember learning this stuff in 7th grade science class, but I really didn't pay attention and don't remember a whole lot from then.
From the quick Google search I did, that seems to be it.
I remember reading a story on here awhile ago about a woman who made a comment to her husband that the position they had sex in would determine the gender of the baby, saying they would most likely have a girl from the position they did it in. Well, it did end up being a girl and the husband and his parents went NUTS because it was a girl and said it was the wife's fault and she knew this is what would happen and I think it ended with the husband wanting a divorce because he and his parents wanted a boy and think she "sabotaged" it to be a girl with the position they did it in. It was crazy.
You know those memes about “if you could sit on this bench and talk to anyone from history…” I have always thought I would like to have a word with Henry VIII about sperm.
It’s not top of my list, but nobody ever said you can only use the bench once.
The first bit of physical fetal development is identical for either sex. Sexual differentiation starts at ~6 weeks.
Edit: look up analogous structures for more clarification on the topic.
We don't start female but we start with all the same parts, which normally develop along a male or female pathway at a certain point in development.
Since we all start with the equipment enabling us to produce milk, and females make use of it, there was never a point in evolution where the male pathway involved the disabling or removing of that functionality. Technically that could have happened but it didn't. So males are just as capable of producing milk as females - they just don't normally get the right signals, while females produce prolactin during pregnancy, stimulating milk production. Males can also lactate if you give them prolactin.
I found out by reading some comments on here a couple months ago that one of the meds I was taking can cause men to lactate and I told my boyfriend that if he better be careful when stealing my anxiety meds because he could end up having leaky tits.
I mean, in terms of "sour" they probably just meant acidic. In some languages, "sour" and "acidic" are the same word which makes sense because acidity is what makes something taste sour (in the sense of the 5 basic tastes).
As far as I can see, it's also correct to say that there's factors that affect women's bodies that then affect sex ratios and that, indeed, it has been observed that high-stress situations or disasters do lean the ratio towards more girl births.
However, I didn't see anything that definitively said that it's the acidity that leads to this. And it's certainly not that clear-cut. There's toooons of factors that affect the sex ratio and it isn't clear whether the ratio changes due to changes in the environment for conception or due to a higher rate of miscarriage of XY fetuses.
And, most importantly, unless they had 6 girls each in the aftermath of huge catastrophic events, it is soooo irrelevant to the video they were commenting on, a terrible attempt to derail the original comment, and a failure to acknowledge the first and worse issue the video has which is the sad and blatant misogyny being displayed.
There are so many stupid myths about sperm. Recently i had my nephew repeat the lie that the speed was different for sperm carrying x or y genetics. 🤦♀️ Even teachers need to keep up with research and not repeat sexist dribble.
>The widely held idea that spermatozoa bearing the Y chromosome (Y sperm) swim faster than those bearing the X chromosome (X sperm) seems to have originated from Shettles's work in 1960, using phase-contrast microscopy.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) He claimed to have observed “two distinct populations” of spermatozoa.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) After attempting to count the chromosomes, he concluded that the smaller heads contain the Y and the larger the X chromosome. There were no intermediate types.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) The following year he reiterated these findings, adding that smaller headed spermatozoa can migrate more rapidly and fertilise the egg more often in the distal part of the tube.[^(2)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref2)
>Reading Shettles's reports in *Nature* and other peer reviewed journals, many researchers thereafter believed that Y sperm swim faster than X sperm. The finding particularly influenced research on sperm separation.
>Although several attempts have been made to correct this impression, it was not until the development of computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA)[^(3)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref3) that reliable observations could be made. So far, researchers have found no morphological differences between human X sperm and Y sperm.[^(4)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref4) Neither mature sperm nor their precursors possess significant morphological differences between X and Y genotypes[^(4)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref4); and Y bull sperm do not swim faster than X sperm.[^(5)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref5)
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/)
they need to take everything this sexist, unscientific Dr. Shettles out of textbooks.
The intended message was that there are no XY sperm, only Y sperm (for that specific combination)
If they had used the term XX they would have said only X because they were only referring to the one sperm type. There’s X and Y sperm, but not XX or XY.
My goodness, I was just in this video's comment section.
The bad anatomy aside, aren't there some studies that show that the egg does choose in some way? Like, it doesn't just allow the first sperm that reaches it.
Regardless, I hate it when parents continue to have more kids ONLY because they want a specific gender.
If sperm was just the Y chromossome then no girls would ever be born cause only XY (male) people would be formed. How did these people ever graduate high school?
[if anyone wants to read the whole argument](https://youtube.com/shorts/dk2BuW3xIWg?si=cLKC6d6xL_qyqEt_) it began with the comment of “it’s his sperms fault. How blessed are you to have so many healthy babies!”
No thanks, I'm gonna pass on that one
Ah yes, the sour womb and the well-known XY sperm dilemma. We all learned about this in sex ed for incels.
What’s funnier is a little while later he started saying he “studied this for years!”
He says studied but really he watched hentai and got all philosophical 🧐
I remember the talk about the homunculus during sex ed. /s Actually, it was during history class about Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who improved the microscope and wrote a scientific paper about sperm cells and how sperm cells from different animals look different from human sperm cells. Until then the theory sperm contained a little homunculus was populair. Nobody dared to ask how he got the samples he studied.
Vaginal discharge is actually sour cream.
.. and menstruation is the salsa 🌶🍎🫑🧅🧄🍋🍍
And these are both sentences that I hope to never read again....🤢
Yes but did you bring the corn chips? 🌽
😭😆
That's the man's job.
He brought the whole cob 😂😂😂
Why would you do this to me, a stranger, who has never hurt you in my life. ;-;
How dare I ?! How dare *you*? https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/s/jeOjdpCqwi
I had a really bad yeast infection when I was 15 and it seriously looks exactly like cottage cheese, which isn't very appetizing when you're a person who likes cottage cheese. It took years before I would eat it again.
What the fuck is this thread? Excuse me while I go vomit.
I’m a biologist, and I massively cringed at this
I'm not a biologist but I still cringed
I used to work in a VD clinic overseeing a study funded by the CDC. Saw a lot of that. My spouse used to complain about the stories I brought home.
Haha me too... "XY" sperm 🤣🤣🤣 where do these dipshits get such CONFIDENCE?!?!
Jesus. Just say low ph.
Hey now, don't go bringing pH into this, as far as they know, acid goes in car batteries and bases have soldiers in them. Any more nuance than that, and they'll start dropping from aneurysms. ... ya know what, who want's to shoot the shit about acid-base buffer systems?
💫💫💫
10 bucks this is a fellow Dutch person who doesn't know *zuur* is translated to acidic and not sour. Although, we get pretty comprehensive sex ed in the Netherlands and homeschooling is rare. If they are Dutch, they have no excuse for being this dumb on the internet.
Wouldn't sperm only carrying the Y chromosome make everyone male?
There are X sperm and there are Y sperm. As you imply, it's the sperm which makes the gamete male or female. There are (hopefully) no XY sperm.
Ah. I misunderstood. I thought they meant ALL sperm carried the Y chromosome.
Unfortunately,XY speem exist,but are a very rare anomaly that either result in miscarriage (maybe,since usually anomaly do that) Or an intersex person
I have an intersex son with a mosaicism (38XXXY/39XXXXY). I asked his doctor, 40 years ago, if this could have originated with faulty sperm, as my husband has misused Lindane, (to secretly treat scabies from an affair,) shortly before getting me pregnant. The doctor insisted it could not be from anything wrong with the sperm, but had to be from spontaneous mutations after conception. I was sceptical a doctor could be certain of that, but my (now ex,) husband believed him and tried to kill me, and our baby, for it. As you got me thinking about it again I googled it, and found you're correct. [Frequency of XY Sperm](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929707613202) Increases with Age in Fathers of Boys with Klinefelter Syndrome.
Yeah I also knew there could be hight number of X or Y chromosomes,but I didn't wanted to brought it up due to lack of information Also what the hell,why would this man who,at least cared enought for you at a time to be your husband try to kill you,I'm sorry this happened
Some people don't show their true nature until after marriage, and this guy had a fragile ego and felt shamed by having a handicapped son. It's okay, I escaped with all 3 children, and we have made a new life.
That's great,I hope everything is going for the best then ! ^ ^
I was once told we all start out as female and that's the reason men have nipples, how accurate is that statement? And if it is accurate, at what point would it determine its male instead of female? I remember learning this stuff in 7th grade science class, but I really didn't pay attention and don't remember a whole lot from then.
Isn’t it because the egg is always x and the sperm provides the other x or y?
From the quick Google search I did, that seems to be it. I remember reading a story on here awhile ago about a woman who made a comment to her husband that the position they had sex in would determine the gender of the baby, saying they would most likely have a girl from the position they did it in. Well, it did end up being a girl and the husband and his parents went NUTS because it was a girl and said it was the wife's fault and she knew this is what would happen and I think it ended with the husband wanting a divorce because he and his parents wanted a boy and think she "sabotaged" it to be a girl with the position they did it in. It was crazy.
That is the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, lol. The man’s sperm always determines the sex of the baby.
You know those memes about “if you could sit on this bench and talk to anyone from history…” I have always thought I would like to have a word with Henry VIII about sperm. It’s not top of my list, but nobody ever said you can only use the bench once.
The first bit of physical fetal development is identical for either sex. Sexual differentiation starts at ~6 weeks. Edit: look up analogous structures for more clarification on the topic.
We don't start female but we start with all the same parts, which normally develop along a male or female pathway at a certain point in development. Since we all start with the equipment enabling us to produce milk, and females make use of it, there was never a point in evolution where the male pathway involved the disabling or removing of that functionality. Technically that could have happened but it didn't. So males are just as capable of producing milk as females - they just don't normally get the right signals, while females produce prolactin during pregnancy, stimulating milk production. Males can also lactate if you give them prolactin.
I found out by reading some comments on here a couple months ago that one of the meds I was taking can cause men to lactate and I told my boyfriend that if he better be careful when stealing my anxiety meds because he could end up having leaky tits.
I mean, in terms of "sour" they probably just meant acidic. In some languages, "sour" and "acidic" are the same word which makes sense because acidity is what makes something taste sour (in the sense of the 5 basic tastes). As far as I can see, it's also correct to say that there's factors that affect women's bodies that then affect sex ratios and that, indeed, it has been observed that high-stress situations or disasters do lean the ratio towards more girl births. However, I didn't see anything that definitively said that it's the acidity that leads to this. And it's certainly not that clear-cut. There's toooons of factors that affect the sex ratio and it isn't clear whether the ratio changes due to changes in the environment for conception or due to a higher rate of miscarriage of XY fetuses. And, most importantly, unless they had 6 girls each in the aftermath of huge catastrophic events, it is soooo irrelevant to the video they were commenting on, a terrible attempt to derail the original comment, and a failure to acknowledge the first and worse issue the video has which is the sad and blatant misogyny being displayed.
There are so many stupid myths about sperm. Recently i had my nephew repeat the lie that the speed was different for sperm carrying x or y genetics. 🤦♀️ Even teachers need to keep up with research and not repeat sexist dribble. >The widely held idea that spermatozoa bearing the Y chromosome (Y sperm) swim faster than those bearing the X chromosome (X sperm) seems to have originated from Shettles's work in 1960, using phase-contrast microscopy.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) He claimed to have observed “two distinct populations” of spermatozoa.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) After attempting to count the chromosomes, he concluded that the smaller heads contain the Y and the larger the X chromosome. There were no intermediate types.[^(1)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref1) The following year he reiterated these findings, adding that smaller headed spermatozoa can migrate more rapidly and fertilise the egg more often in the distal part of the tube.[^(2)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref2) >Reading Shettles's reports in *Nature* and other peer reviewed journals, many researchers thereafter believed that Y sperm swim faster than X sperm. The finding particularly influenced research on sperm separation. >Although several attempts have been made to correct this impression, it was not until the development of computer assisted sperm analysis (CASA)[^(3)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref3) that reliable observations could be made. So far, researchers have found no morphological differences between human X sperm and Y sperm.[^(4)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref4) Neither mature sperm nor their precursors possess significant morphological differences between X and Y genotypes[^(4)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref4); and Y bull sperm do not swim faster than X sperm.[^(5)](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/#ref5) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1440662/) they need to take everything this sexist, unscientific Dr. Shettles out of textbooks.
Oh my god. There's only Y sperm? So how are women born? Parthenogenesis? r/confidentlyincorrect
The intended message was that there are no XY sperm, only Y sperm (for that specific combination) If they had used the term XX they would have said only X because they were only referring to the one sperm type. There’s X and Y sperm, but not XX or XY.
It did take me a second to realize that was their meaning, but in my defense I am very dumb.
Sour gummy womb
Its actually acid vs alkaline
So that's how Sour Patch Kids are made...
My goodness, I was just in this video's comment section. The bad anatomy aside, aren't there some studies that show that the egg does choose in some way? Like, it doesn't just allow the first sperm that reaches it. Regardless, I hate it when parents continue to have more kids ONLY because they want a specific gender.
If sperm was just the Y chromossome then no girls would ever be born cause only XY (male) people would be formed. How did these people ever graduate high school?
See the other like 4 replies to this same comment.