Comments on: Distilling the Essence of Motherhood

By: Alan Von Fan

Alan Von Fan — Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:38:35 +0000

…but I have an old head on my shoulders (amazing what you can find just littering the streets), and I know when I’m well off. Especially as any offshoots of my genetic branch are likely to come out with a Marlboro in one hand and a glass of Jack in the other.

Slightly more seriously though, the trend in my family is for increasing height; I am the tallest, seeing my Dad’s 6 feet and three inches, and raising by three. I was fifty centimetres tall at birth and, while I am not as slender as I was ten years back, I’m not sure that there’s room in my pot-belly for a larger model to grow.:) Maybe when I’ve come to terms more with the idea of having kids I’ll be able to take that extra step.

Hey; maybe I’d grow breasts… ;)

Anyway, I’m off to Wales for a week now, so experimentation will just have to wait. Take care y’all.

By: rickyjames

rickyjames — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:00:46 +0000

You’re right, I want this to be a true science news site first and foremost. The power of the press has gone to my head in the past few days to some degree, I admit. My apologies to all for any indulgent poor taste on my part, which I’ve now edited out of the offending story and will strive harder to avoid in the future.

As for Mozilla, that’s a Scoop problem. I’ll look into it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:14:11 +0000

Oh, and defaulting to Auto Format would be a nice idea, too…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 12:13:01 +0000

For the love of Mike, already! I liked the article on WMDs, but all this insipid whining and pouting in other articles really is making me loose respect for the site. Grow up, get some journalistic integrity, and keep blatant politics out of the body of the articles. I don’t care if your politics influences the choice of the story, but don’t troll right in the article itself. It’s extremely poor taste.

In addition to being poor journalism, the comment at the end of this article was extremely self-indulgent and petulant. If I wanted to read that kind of pap, I’d be on LiveJournal right now reading about someone’s emo collection instead of reading a self-purported science news site. If you have issues with a poster, take it up in the appropriate thread, and least give us the comfortable illusion of an unbiased website.

(And while I’m being a curmudgeon… It’d be nice if I could actually post to this site from Mozilla Firebird without being constantly block by a so-called Form Keys error.)

By: xanadu

xanadu — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:25:34 +0000

As a Philosopher and Psychologist, this subject is something I have never considered, and it has some interesting implications. I suppose that as a collective society the transformation and acceptance of males as carrying a child for a time seems odd. Especially if we are to look at Darwinian evolution ad the typical biological roles of make and female.

Of course, there is no longer anything “typically” animal about humans anymore. We modify our brains, emotions, moods, bodies… and despite how much of it seemed unheard of just 100 years ago, we think very little of it today.

I always try to keep an open mind when I read about the latest more-radical scientific ideas. Ad far fetched and debatable as they seem, in 20 years they could be the norm. As for me carrying a child, I think I will probably pass on that one. :-)

-Andy

By: gypsysoul

gypsysoul — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 09:18:58 +0000

You, RJ, dug deeply to find a topic that would in some faint manner allow placement of AVF’s profound quote for the day. You men.

Actually, most women fantasize about males carrying at least one offspring to term. I’ve never been happier –no sarcasm here– than when I was providing the safest environment (I thought at the time, at least) for my two children, that is, inside the confines of my person. However, most women would love to share with men that joy of feeling life within: ah, the endurance test of morning sickness– and that interval especially close to arrival time when Future, Jr., pummels the walls just to stretch a bit.

Perhaps AVF is young enough to experience that joy one day. :-)