264 — The Wo-Men: In Touch With Your Feminine Side?

I take my evolution seriously, because evolution is serious business. But that doesn't mean the mysterious—but true—biology I explain here isn't funny. Is it the funniest? Hmm... Is it?

Maybe to half the world's population! (Slightly more than half, for accuracy.)

I hereby bring tidings from the human genome—from the amino acids that dot our RNA to the phenotypes that emerge from climbing that twisted double helix into the crowing achievement called Man.

Is Man the correct title? I say, Nay!

The male gender has been enamored with his penis since anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) caused his(?) Müllerian ducts, fallopian tubes, and uterus to regress, allowing the male fetus to progress, instead of the otherwise default, female. Once those hormones switched the tracks on the gender railway, the male emerged like a locomotive that only had to follow one set of tracks. No wonder they never stop to ask directions.

The inconvenient, hormonal, and startling truth is that without that AMH hormone...

WE ALL START OUT AS WOMEN!

Deal with it. I do, even though I cry like a little girl.

Thus, the default—our steady state—is female. Left alone, the fetal human would always end up female. It takes extra effort--actual meddling--to chisel a male out of it. ("If it ain't broke...?)

This is why Mars Needs Women! was such a ridiculous movie. Earth needed men, so evolution created hormones to make them happen. Adam's rib was not the progenitor of women, but an evolutionary inside joke by God Almighty to the rest of us.

Yet, in the real world—for too long, and which finally and unavoidably is changing—it was a Man's world. Women were second-class citizens. So is it any wonder that, as the proud males of our species thought of their penises as "mighty swords," they would think of the act of copulation as placing such mighty swords where they belonged—resheathed for safekeeping?

Thus, the word, "vagina," comes from the Latin, for "sheath." The Ro-man was not a Wo-man.

No matter how masculine the Latin linguistics mocks that other 'lingus and how it makes a man feel, he should never forget that all men start out as women. Just sayin'.

All men, thus, are Wo-men.

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AUTHOR'S MANLY NOTES:

For Friday, September 20, Day 264 of the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge

366 WORDS (without A/N)

Accompaniment photos were AI derived, but the hormones were not.

THIS CHALLENGE KEEPS IN TOUCH WITH ITS FEMINE SIDE, 366 DNA STRANDS AT A TIME.

There are currently three dioecious, gender-based, effeminate Vocal genders still hormonizing in the 2024 Story-a-Day Challenge:

• L.C. Schäfer (The girl on the train)

• Rachel Deeming (The girl with the choochoo tattoo)

• Gerard DiLeo (The Wo-man in First Class)