Comments on: So Many Kinds of Wrong

By: Liza

Liza — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:00:06 +0000

Pregnant women impregnated with sperm carrying a Y chromosome are more likely to have boys.

By: RixBix

RixBix — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:00:59 +0000

And here I thought it was because my eggs went and beat the shit out of the male sperm that I had girls. Hmmm…Doesn’t explain why I ate the equivalent of that which would sustain 5 healthy robust firemen though…

By: itsjustelise

itsjustelise — Tue, 06 May 2008 12:04:33 +0000

I don’t understand how a woman’s diet could influence the sex of the baby when women can’t make a y chromosome. Everyone knows that the male determines the sex. Why is no one talking about the effects of diet, chemicals (bisphenol-a), and hormones on a male’s ability or inability to generate swimmers with y chromosomes? All of the hormones we consume through meats and dairy along with the chemicals in our water.. those have more potential to impact the sex and health of a child than the crap in this study.

By: A Sarah

A Sarah — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:58:57 +0000

Oh, also — Yeah, this story is so ridiculously wrong. This is why I hate being pregnant. Suddenly you get a level of condescension and bossiness and exclusion from adult conversation that you last had from the world at large when you were three. (Not that three-year-olds aren’t ALSO entitled to a great deal more respect, freedom to make choices, bodily autonomy, and lack of cartoon-voiced intrusive questions from strangers in the grocery store. I’m just saying, if you’re wondering what it’s like to be pregnant, that’s what it’s like. Plus nausea and exhaustion.)

By: A Sarah

A Sarah — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:54:31 +0000

Hey, sorry if this is unnecessarily pot-stirring, and I genuinely am asking so I can deal with my OWN internalized racism and be a better ally…

With all that’s been going down elsewhere in the blogosphere regarding jungle-themed racist illustrations of spear-wielding natives threatening heroic white woman and her man, in a book by a white feminist and published by a white feminist press, with all the pursuant apologies… it just occurred to me to wonder… Is there anything white folks ought to consider before invoking “Oooga booga booga” as a phrase mocking something that’s supposed to be threatening?

I’m 100 percent open to hearing that I’m completely wrongheaded in asking this question.

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:58:12 +0000

I was just clarifying for Carolyn Lovelace that yes, they were referring to the women’s diet at the time she conceived, not during pregnancy (as the sex is determined absolutely at pregnancy).

I agree that that is what the authors seemed to think they were measuring. My post is more to clarify the fact that their methodology was so broken that they have absolutely no way of differentiating between the effects of preconception diet and the effects of first-trimester diet.

They have no way of knowing whether the effects, if real, were on conceptions or not.

By: Jackie

Jackie — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:31:16 +0000

The first thing I thought of when I heard about this, and they mentioned what to do to have more boys, was “What about the girls?” I guess I wasn’t the only one thinking about that.

By: himawari

himawari — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 04:03:45 +0000

(Change the very last word from “pregnancy” to “conception.” I’m tired, a bit trigger happy with the submit button, and forgot to proofread.)

By: himawari

himawari — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 03:57:25 +0000

Just to clarify, laurelhel, I NEVER said that I thought the study was valid AT ALL. I am 100% in agreement with you that the methodology was flawed, and I’m surprised that this BS makes the news. I was just clarifying for Carolyn Lovelace that yes, they were referring to the women’s diet at the time she conceived, not during pregnancy (as the sex is determined absolutely at pregnancy).

By: Arwen

Arwen — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:10:55 +0000

I have an abnormally strong wish for one of these stuffed …. jesters.

http://foolsparade.ca/