By David Futrelle
I found this lovely example of sex miseducation in the BadWomensAnatomy subreddit, a repository of amazing anatomical nonsense collected from around the web. I couldn’t figure out where this came from (it may have originated from a now-deleted tweet from this Twitter account, but I’m not sure). But whatever its origin it’s pretty … original.
On top of the whole death and sadness thing, there’s the unexpected revelation that testes are eggs. Who knew? Nonetheless, I’m pretty sure that the runny stuff that comes out of the penis is not egg white, and should not be used to make omelettes.
What the heck are they teaching in schools????
I’m beggared
I’m shocked
In a world of readily available scientifically verifiable information, people choose to believe this ?
This!!!
Whoever created this flunked high school biology and probably did poorly in English.
And this is what you get when you get abstinence-only sex ed, kiddies. You get guys who think they’re literally God’s gift to all the sad, dead wombs of the world.
Aaaaand you also get the reason I had my tubes tied.
Anybody who’s this misinformed should be considered a public health hazard!
Unfortunately in many states, next to nothing. Meanwhile my son’s school has a pregnant 13 year old and I’m helping a 12 year old learn about protection after buying her a pregnancy test that was luckily negative…
They aren’t teaching anything in schools, especially in red states where they believe in the gay agenda and teaching kids sex education is encouraging paedophilia.
In the Middle Ages when they didn’t know about genes and zygotes, they believed that sperm were homunculi, ie tiny humans in their own right. If this were true, each man would be a clone of his father and there would be no DNA from mum.
A guy kicked off on Twitter a while back about periods, and said women should learn to hold their bladders, which shows how tragically ignorant these folk are.
@mexican hot chocolate
Whoever created this were sadly probably homeschooled.
And this is why people are fighting to have a proper and up-to-date sex-ed curriculum in Doug Ford’s Ontario.
Aw Jesalin beat me to my one-liner. 🙁
@shadowplay Very possible, but more and more homeschooled are doing it because we live in the deep south and want our kids to learn actual health, science, and un-witewashed history. That and chronic migraines are why I homeschool mine
@monica
Thats why the sadly is in there.
There’s plenty of good reasons for homeschooling. Plenty of good homeschoolers (and homeschooled).
And then there’s the ones that give the whole idea a really, really bad name.
They definitely do. It’s lonely for my son sometimes, but all the homeschool groups around here are very conservative religious groups. And we’d never make it in a group that considers flat earth theory a viable option for discussion but evolution as contriversial…
@Shadowplay, monica:
And a number of large homeschooling organizations and conferences that are blatantly fronts for the theocratic quiverfull types and that actively try to make sure that their form of homeschooling is the only one that gets any press or support.
See, for example, the Home School Legal Defense Association, which actively describes itself as a Christian organization, and which will gladly help you if you’re a ‘Christian’ homeschooler (by their rather slanted definition). Any other type of homeschooler, not so much.
Yeah, my MILs family are those type. Me homeschooling is probably the 1st thing I’ve ever done they approve of. And if they knew what we were teaching they wouldn’t approve at all
OT, but something I found amusing, cats in downtown St. John’s are easily some of the most easy-going felines I encountered. Much like the people there. Could be that they spend a lot of time outdoors on narrow streets and are used to people being close to them, but I encountered four different cats along Gower and Bond Streets and they were all totally cool with approaching me.
Small sample size, I know, but Toronto cats are wayyyy more skittish. I’m thinking cars could also have something to do with it; speed limits in St. John’s are way lower than Toronto and the number of crosswalks in lieu of traffic lights demand drivers take it slow down the core streets like Duckworth and Water.
It was wild to see a major downtown thoroughfare have all but two traffic lights. And the local drivers will actually slow down and stop for you if they spot you standing at a crosswalk. You will not see that in Toronto.
Another thing that blew me away about St. John’s was how much of it was defined by the last great cataclysm: the Great Fire of 1892 (its third such fire in 100 years), which wiped out most of the harbour and downtown core. All those iconic multi-coloured row houses were built in the British style that happened to be popular in that year following the blaze, so they’re all the same late Victorian row houses that have been painted in their famous rainbow of colours to quickly house a lot of homeless St. John’sers.
References to the Great Fire were everywhere. Duckworth Street has a mural that depicts how far it spread across the harbour (and challenges the viewer to locate its origin point a la Where’s Waldo):
The Anglican Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was gutted by the blaze, but it was rebuilt and maintains a museum of artifacts recovered from the ruins, including the original iron key left bent by the fire’s heat.
The reason I bring it up is that I can scarcely think of many places (at least in the developed world) so defined by a major catastrophe like that. The Halifax Explosion is probably the closest thing in Canada, and certainly the Chicago and San Francisco Great Fires are noteworthy, but Toronto had its own Great Fire in 1904 and very little remains to remind Torontonians of it. Part of it probably has to do with sheer size of the community; a major city like Toronto or Chicago has a larger area and given time and modernization, will have few remnants of that time left anyway. St. John’s has deliberately maintained a lot of that time period and, with the newer buildings actually criticized as detracting from the harbour’s grandeur by blocking the view from the higher elevations. *shrug* The price of 21st Century living, I suppose.
@Hippielady: Whatever it is, MGTOWs clearly aren’t paying attention.
I know I mentioned this earlier, but here’s that link again, for those who didn’t get to snicker at the LIQUID GOLD doofusheads the last time:
https://aeon.co/essays/the-idea-that-sperm-race-to-the-egg-is-just-another-macho-myth
Biology is cool, dudebros. Keep your muddleheaded thinking out of it. You’re harshing its beauty and making biology nerds snicker when they could be doing SCIENCE!
No no no. This is completely wrong. Actually, sperm are homeless and unemployed, living in the groin’s basement. They wander, lonely and aimless, until a WOMB provides A PLACE TO STAY and a PURPOSE FOR LIVING.
The vast majority of sperm are incel, since they never end up getting anywhere close to an egg, and die ignominious deaths inside a cervix or a gym sock without ever having built one single skyscraper.
Meanwhile, the uterus carries on with its monthly redecorating sprees:
http://gaenice.com/g/b/hi/hippie-room-decor-diy-trippy-rooms-tumblr-how-to-make-ideas-decorations-for-party-if-you-need-reference-good-living-family-kitchen-or-bathroom-we-have-example-of-selected-bedroom-1150×770.jpg
I went to find one of those paintings of sperm that has little people in them and
http://i.imgur.com/vHtydmk.jpg
@Jackie/Kirby
Ew ew ew. No! Bad predictive search!
Back when I was in high school – long long ago, the sex education was almost good. The only problem – the football coach teaching it told us girls shouldn’t use tampons because they can “get lost” in the body. On the other hand, we learned about different methods of birth control and that ‘safe’ times in a woman’s cycle weren’t really safe, so that was good info.
@Dreamer:
Isn’t that what the string is for? So once the tampon slays the Minotaur it can find its way back out of the Labyrinth?
@Buttercup Q. Skullpants, Moon_custafer
@Katamount:
Along with the cars, the cats in Toronto have to be wary of the raccoons.
@Katamount
Hiroshima in Japan is a city defined by a catastrophe, an act of war. There’s a huge park built around the remaining structure and landmarks throughout the city for sites relevant to the bombing. Huge swathes of the city were destroyed by the bomb and the subsequent fires. Every year there is a ceremony at the time of the bomb drop and that night thousands of floating paper lanterns are set adrift on the city’s five rivers to remember the survivors who died in the bombing and in the rivers seeking relief from thirst and fire. Nagasaki has a park, but no surviving structures and definitely less tourism for it’s past.
I’ve visited Hiroshima multiple times, for the ceremony as well as for other sites and events. A huge part of that city’s identity circles around it’s status as the first city to be decimated by atomic weapons. It is also a beautiful city full of hope and commitment to Never Again.