Bitch and moan March 3, 2007
Posted by spacemom in : Life...otherwise , trackbackI swear, I am not all bitch and moan, although lately, it feel like it is!
I am past my science crisis, although I will have a lengthy email to my boss on why it happened and how we can fix it in the future (yeah, it was partially my fault, but the person who bitched the loudest at the work I made was really the person who screwed this all up!
Today, Soleil was playing with her Tar-zhey dollar bin Barbie (her legs fall off when you have her sit down, it’s hysterical!) and she pressed the left mammary gland in. I removed the torso (don’t try this with the trademarked Mattel Barbie) and popped it back out. She thought about this and then asked "mommy, why do girls get breasts?"
I answered with the basic, "well, girls and boys are different and boys get a penis, but girls get vulvae and when they are older they grow breasts for their babies." But it did bring up an interesting question. Why DO humans develop breasts so damn early? And should the tissue develop later, when the hormones associated with pregnancy start? And why do other mammals (think a pregnant dog or cat) only get enlarged nipples, not really a breast?
Food for thought, my friends, food for thought.
(On a completely unrelated topic, how many female readers here call their mothers once or more a day? Am I a freak who calls once a week? Am I a terrible daughter or something?)
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Boobs. Maybe it takes a while to build up the mammaries to the point where they are actually physically able to lactate enough to support a child. Thus, it would be better to start developing them first, so that by the time the girl is theoretically able to have a child, the boobs are ready & waiting. Also, they serve as visual sexual symbols–when they get big enough, they’re signalling, come & get it! to the guys. Dogs and cats have olfactory signals. Maybe the composition of human milk is such that (a) you need bigger stores of it to satisfy the kiddo; (b) it’s not easily constructed right away?
Bitching & moaning: Okay with me. I’ve been B&Ming all over the place lately, so it’s nice to know I’m not alone!
Moms: Much to my embarassment, now that mom is blogging and available via email, we do a helluva lot of our communicating electronically. Buuut…we fire off emails all the time.
Mom? a couple of times a week, or once a week or once every three weeks. Totally depends on my mood. My sister, on the other hand….twice a day?
Unless there’s something particular going on, I speak with my mother every week, sometimes two, so if you’re a freak, so am I!lol
Julie
Male readers… they exist…
I call my mom every other week or so (she’s 5200 miles away)… but we email several times a week; and she reads my blog to know all that’s going on in the life of the twins
My mom passed away, but I used to call her once every two weeks or so. I rarely talk to my Dad on the phone, but he reads my blog!
My mom is in the same city as me. We talk about 3 times per week. Unless I am having a crisis. (She is a clergy person and sometimes I feel like I have to make an appointment to have my crisis, in between her meeting with the members of her flock who are having their own crises…sometimes I resent that…)
I talk to my mom once every few months, maybe. It’s not that we don’t like each other (although we have our moments), it’s just that neither of us are really chatty on the phone. My stepdad, who faithfully phones his family once a week, thinks this is dreadful and will sometimes call me while he’s at work just to make sure I’m still alive.