Comment on OnLy tWo eLemEnTs

• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  But some produce neither.

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  • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nobody has a body organized around producing no gametes

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    • mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      What does this even mean?
      Who “organizes” bodies?
      If a body can’t and never could produce gametes, what makes it “organized” to do so anyway?

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        There is no “who”, it’s the process of evolution over billions of years. Our bodies aren’t blank slates.

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    • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My niece has Turner’s syndrome. She had to learn to give herself hormone shots to grow and develop as others normally would during puberty, but due to very underdeveloped ovaries is incapable of producing gametes. How does she fit in?

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      • powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Turner’s syndrome is a chromosomal disorder that only affects females. Her body is organized around the production of the larger of two gamete sizes.

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