Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle
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All I can say to this is, bloody hell.
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@george-k said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
@89th said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
Personally, I'm offended it's not called the Womenstruation Cycle.
Personstruation cycle, please.
Philistine. Zestruation.
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@bachophile said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
@klaus
Rabbits do not have periods. Female rabbits are induced ovulators, meaning that they only release an egg in response to a suitable mate being around and during, or just prior, to mating. This is different from other types of ovulation, like human experience, which occurs cyclically.source https://peteducate.com/do-rabbits-have-periods/
Just sayin
Can't get away with jack shit on this forum.
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@bachophile said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
@klaus
Rabbits do not have periods. Female rabbits are induced ovulators, meaning that they only release an egg in response to a suitable mate being around and during, or just prior, to mating. This is different from other types of ovulation, like human experience, which occurs cyclically.source https://peteducate.com/do-rabbits-have-periods/
Just sayin
Thank you, glad to learn about a concrete example of a mammalian species without cyclical menstruation.
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Speaking for women everywhere, I am so. glad. y'all are finding this so. goddamn. amusing.
But to answer Ax's question, I have always felt that menstruation was a poorly designed solution. Why couldn't the whole mess be designed to be internally reabsorbed? No muss, no fuss, no PMS.
Knees, too. Why must they be so fragile? Bang a knee on a car door and the pain is immense, if short-lived.
Fragility in knees obviously doesn't spare football players.
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@klaus said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
@george-k said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
@89th said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
Personally, I'm offended it's not called the Womenstruation Cycle.
Personstruation cycle, please.
I identify as a menstruating rabbit and feel excluded by your usage of the word "person".
Rabbbit actually have the "on demand" or "event driven" fertility system that Ax thinks is a better idea. They neither menstruate nor go into estrus.
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@axtremus said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
Today’s musing is inspired by this post by @Klaus.
Why is menstruation cyclical? Why must a female’s ability to conceive be “cyclical” rather than, say, “event driven” or “on demand”?
If you were to design the reproductive system from scratch, is making the female reproductive system operating “cyclically” really an intelligent design choice?
Discuss.
It really is a better system given the nature of human infant development which takes much longer for independence and generative faculties to develop. The fertility and generational time frames, as well as life spans and other physical and relational traits are why the humans have been able to do so much in shaping and optimizing our living environment and distributing around the global, unlike any other animal or life form.
I suspect if humans had a different reproductive cycle we wouldn't be having this conversation. We'd be eating grubs.
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@mik said in Today’s Deep Thought - Musing on Menstruation Cycle:
Can't get away with jack shit on this forum.
I'm pretty sure jackrabbits do that.
