KINE 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cultural Capital, Racialization, Sweatshop
8 Apr 2014
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By extolling female cycle as productive enterprise, menstruation must necessarily be viewed as a failure. Menstruation as debris of uterine lining- making scraps, products of no use. Male reproductive system seems more dominant, because they produce hundreds of millions of sperm per day, while women only shed single gametes per month. Sperm are always produced, ovarian follicles sit, age like overstocked inventory. New born females have all the germ cell they will ever need: reach full maturity during active productive life and then degenerate during menopause. Females- stocked piled germ cell by birth which degenerates. Ovaries become old and worn out from hundreds of cycles. Egg production is inferior, because it is finished at birth. Degeneration of eggs- 300 000 eggs remain by puberty and only 400-500 are released during 40 or so years of a women"s reproductive life. For every baby produced, women only waste 200 eggs, men waste more than one trillion sperm.
