Comments on: Male & Female: Polar Opposites? http://sotah.net/2008/11/12/male-female-polar-opposites/ Thu, 27 May 2010 22:30:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: sarah m http://sotah.net/2008/11/12/male-female-polar-opposites/#comment-590 sarah m Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:41:16 +0000 http://playingagirl.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-590 I totally agree with you on the gender stuff, but I'm gonna argue that that is not what the article is talking about at all. it's arguing genetics, not freudian psychobabble. its a genetic tug of war between the genes in the egg and the genes in the sperm. the egg is not sex determining at all, and the sperm can have either an X or a Y chromosome. in the theory described in the article, sometimes genes from the sperm are activated, or shut down, and sometimes genes from the egg are activated, or shut down, and an inbalance of this on particular genes can cause mental illness. I totally agree with you on the gender stuff, but I’m gonna argue that that is not what the article is talking about at all. it’s arguing genetics, not freudian psychobabble.

its a genetic tug of war between the genes in the egg and the genes in the sperm. the egg is not sex determining at all, and the sperm can have either an X or a Y chromosome.
in the theory described in the article, sometimes genes from the sperm are activated, or shut down, and sometimes genes from the egg are activated, or shut down, and an inbalance of this on particular genes can cause mental illness.

]]> By: Chana http://sotah.net/2008/11/12/male-female-polar-opposites/#comment-589 Chana Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:58:58 +0000 http://playingagirl.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-589 Write more, girl! Write more, girl!

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