Peep this.
Maureen Dowd writes a sarcastic column about how the X-chromosome is really a thing of remarkable complexity (this, ironically, is a proposition I made in a paper in my college "genetics and evolution" class, BTW) and quotes a male scientist as saying the Y-chromosome is "pathetic" and wounded men rush in to defend their ability to be complex, tenderhearted, incredibly perceptive creatures. (My paper, BTW, was not received with any sort of enthusiasm by the male professor — he wrote that in order to understand the X-chromosome, instead of studying it, we must study the Y-chromosome to understand how what it does makes it special from the X-chromosome. During my sophomore year, I was fairly unsophisticated in the sciences and not one to question a prof, so I figured he had a point I couldn't understand. At the moment, I look back at that C-paper with a "so there!" attitude, and also a bit of sadness that, at such a liberal college, a male professor would be so ungenerous and possibly stunt the scope of investigations of more serious biology students.)
So you write poetry, big whoop.
I'm sorry, but women have been kept back for centuries for the most spurious claims on the properties of our bodies. Nit picking the Y-chromosome does not a legitimate complaint against the male sex's capacity for sensitivity make. Instead of flipping this logic to apply to your hegemonic, chauvinistic ideas about women, you rush to defend against what is a phantom attack. By Maureen Dowd, people. Maureen Dowd!!!!
There isn't any legitimacy, knuckleheads. Glad you realized it about yourselves. Now realize it about me and my sisters.
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