Stories and reality | 126 comments (126 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Social norms are very influential. But the fact remains that males and females have different proportions of drugs running through them. There is a quantifiably different effect resulting from the release of estrogen or testosterone - to note the key biochemical difference. Ask Helen. There are many other semi-hormones that are less easily placed prominently either side of the male/female physiological divide.

My belief system agrees with the yin-yang symbology that the uniting of male and female is what is needed to make the perfect homeostatic world. I am not sure that it depends in implicity, but it is surely the best fit with evolutionary principles.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Aug 21st, 2007 at 05:22:45 PM EST
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Hormones? I've been a guinea pig in one hormone experiment after another. Nothing so radical as Helen's. But enough to induce severe vomiting and nervous breakdowns.

Through it all, my way of seeing the world did not change. Fortunately, medicine did.

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Tue Aug 21st, 2007 at 05:29:42 PM EST
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Doctors- huh! Whadda they know ;-)

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by Sven Triloqvist on Tue Aug 21st, 2007 at 05:40:26 PM EST
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_perfect homeostatic world. _

i was taught that was the definition of death!

from free growth and chaotic change emerges relative order.

absolute order would be death too.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Aug 21st, 2007 at 08:14:15 PM EST
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Homeostasis (none / 1)

It is a dynamic equilibrium state in either an open or closed system.

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