Re: The "F" Word
omg, i should never start a thread when it is the first week of uni, and eid is coming up, and GS decided to go down, many, many times.
anyways, the observation that i had was how the confirmed males got so offended when i tried to ahem put the blame on them. both of 'em immediately threw out statistics about how it is all dependent on the women, that fertility is the issue that concerns them only. puleez...i know those stats. i have studied and written tests on those stats. i know that the older a woman gets, the higher the chances are that she will have a child with Down syndrome. (certainly makes ME think...). and i know how the eggs do get bad (using that word for the lack of a better word). ofcourse they will go bad...they are after all part of the body, something we have since the beginning of times. and if your joints can get messed up, why not that stuff.
but my point is, well one of the points anyways, is that how come that justifies that a girl has to marry a man. i mean, what i don't understand why, because of that reason the age gap between a man and a woman has to be huge. like i said before, in some other thread because of the whole bad egg issues, it is imperative that the girl has to be as young as possible.
the other point that i want to discuss is that ofcourse we have all those stats on women. because (as studied in my women psych course) the research performed on women primarily has concerned not about their physical health, but, again, their fertility. there is SO much research on the ovaries of a woman, and not enough on her, say heart or spleen. as far as i know, not a lot of research has been performed on the male issue. that is why it is so easy to spew off statistics "blaming" the women for the lack of the child, or the possible lack of the child. i mean, we know so much more about how a male child is born, or developed in the womb, and not so much about what makes a female child a female. (XX is considered the default, and you could look at it either way). so we really don't know what the condition of the sperm is after a certain age, or how environmental conditions effects it. though research is beginning to appear, but in trickles.
oh and also, the whole 90 year old concieving a child. i bet it is not due to natural methods. there is a reason it isn't supposed to rise after a certain age.
and also also, i read about this real case where a couple was unable to concieve. tests proved that the wife was not to blame. so the docs wanted to do research on the husband. but he refused to have tests performed on him, believiing his virility (is that how you spell it?) but through enough convincing, he allowed for a test to occur. turns out, his sperm was messed up! 2 heads, tail less, and other stuff. so turned out that his work environment was effecting the condition of his sperm. something to think about :)
(that was long...)