Rene Descartes had a fetish for cross-eyed women.  He claimed the fetish stemmed from his childhood love being cross-eyed.

My childhood love wasn’t cross-eyed, which explains why I have a fetish for girls who aren’t cross-eyed.

Until the seventeenth century, hysteria referred to a medical condition in females that was thought to be caused by disturbances of the uterus.  In Greek, hystera means “uterus.”

I think it still exists.

8 out of every 10 people killed by lightning are men.

Guys rule!!!!!

I’ve been reading a lot about sexual ethics, so forgive me if my past two posts have been in the same vein.  In early theories of how babies are made, semen was believed to carry a homunculus (Latin for “little human”).  This theory of preformationism was prevalent before we understood that both a man and woman are equally important in active procreation.  So, yeah, some philosophers and scientists actually believed semen contained a miniature, fully-formed human.  Once the homunculus was inside the woman, development was solely concerned with enlarging this miniature person.  How stupid is that!  Sounds so ridiculous.

But…if we would go back in time and tell them that semen really contained millions of tiny tadpole thingies… I think that would freak them out more.

“Tiny tadpole thingies” is the terminology they use in advanced college biology courses.  Trust me.

Parthenogenesis is a form of asexual reproduction found in females, where growth and development of embryos occurs without fertilization by a male.  In 2004, scientists at Tokyo University of Agriculture used parthenogenesis to create a fatherless mouse, named Kaguya.  And just like that, a mouse religion has been created.

Of the independent countries at the time, New Zealand was the first country to give women the right to vote (1893).  However, things are not quite as equal in Lebanon, where women have partial suffrage.  Proof of elementary education is required for women, but not for men.  Also, voting is compulsory for men, but optional for women.  Gee… that’s so nice of Lebanon to let the women have the option of voting or not.   The Lebanese government is so chill.