How The Egg And Sperm Actually Met

Science needs feminists.

Welcome to the world of sex and science. Combining these two terms is often a challenge in our culture. We rely on our public schools to educate our children on how we populate the planet, but the story that is provided is not what it seems.

Sex Ed is often a confusing and misleading class in school. It includes an awkward video followed by an even more awkward lecture on reproduction. It usually centered more around sex, STDs, and abstinence and lacks in what the process of reproduction really entails. You were likely provided with a story like this one.

How to make a baby, as told by men.

For a woman to become pregnant the sperm must fight it’s way to the egg winning against all odds. It has to be the fastest and strongest sperm beating the rest to the egg (at this point, you should be imagining the most “masculine” sperm possible). And the story goes something like this:

The penis enters the vagina and releases millions of sperm and those sperm begin to battle their way through the hostile environment of the vagina. It pushes itself through the cervix and uterus and on into the fallopian tubes and penetrates the gentle unsuspecting egg. This innocent egg then begins to grow a baby, thanks to the hard work of one special, manly sperm.

*cue men slapping each other on the back and cheering for male dominance*

Hold the applause.

This describes the egg as simply a shell that houses the sperm. It is as if the “superior” male has won again, and it’s time for the woman to do her job and grow a baby. This is an insane story, crafted in the minds of men that have a hard time accepting that women do most of the work in reproduction.

When it comes to sex ed in schools and when we explain reproduction, all wrong. We have been taught to tell a story that says men put babies in women. This is just false. Get over it guys, you are basically a DNA donor.

I don’t say all of this to offend anyone, but if you are a man, you need to recognize that women are already offended.

The process of fertilization is an impressive chain of events and the thunder has been stolen from women for too long. This is the reality of how biased our reproduction education is and it is just another product of many inequalities of our culture.

How to make a baby, as told by real life.

Here is the real story.

The penis enters the vagina and releases sperm. The millions of sperm swim through the clean, protective vagina that has prepared itself to combat bad bacteria and misformed sperm that are a possible threat to reproduction.

The cervix allows the sperm to pass through, freeing the way to the egg that is waiting in the fallopian tubes. The egg then selects one sperm and efficiently bites it’s head off. This kills the sperm’s tail and the rest of the sperm all die. The egg then adds the DNA that was in the head of the sperm to its own DNA and begins to grow a fetus.

So in this version, the sperm does some work to get to the egg, however, the path is prepared and when it arrives the egg takes what it needs and discards the rest.

Reproduction simplified.

Think of it this way, imagine that you are trying to build a crib from Ikea(I picked Ikea because it is always overly complicated), and you have all the pieces and all the tools, but only half the instructions.

You need the rest of the instructions to build the crib and so you have to wait for the rest of the instructions to be delivered. They come in a box that protected them until they arrive and then you throw out the box.

That is is how fertilization works.

The egg already has all the biological components and all of the design mechanisms to develop a baby. It even includes half the DNA used to decide what the baby will be like. It is just waiting for the sperm carrying the male DNA to show up.

Misogynistic culture.

We live in a biased culture. There have always been more male scientists and medical researchers than female. This is not a lack of interest from women, it is, however a lack of opportunity provided to women. This is a deliberate act of exclusion. This develops many inequalities in the interpretation of science, medicine, research, and discovery.

I am often embarrassed to be a man when I look at the history of self-serving excuse for scientific research that our society is built on.

It is a “me first” mentality that has no place in honest research and discovery. We need equal representation in science and medicine. We need a society that values all voices. We need to remove the inequalities of our culture.

Equality in education.

My point is this. Creating life is a team effort. What do men gain by trying to achieve superiority in reproduction? It is a disservice to every woman. Humanity would not continue without women and yet we treat them like sh*t.

Because we live in a society that has long taught women to sit down, shut up and let the men talk, it is hard to have an equal perspective on things that affect who we are. When men with superiority perspectives are the only ones writing the textbooks, how do you think it is going to sound?

We need a shift in education and the interpretation of science.

When we lack an equal and honest perspective of sexes, we lay a foundation for misinformation and prejudice. Science needs feminism. It must be a driving force in our culture if we seek to gain a true understanding of how our world really works.