Article is created by a woman who’s trying to show to the public equality of sperm and egg. Author of this book wasn’t very concern about the people how’s not very familiar with biological definitions and used a lot of them. While I was reading I make a notes where I was able to find metaphors and how accurate author using them. “It is remarkable how “femininely” the egg behaves and how “masculinely” the sperm.” – We can see that author is trying to show from the science prospective of past how people thought that Sperm is much more important. Old world denied all attempts of acceptations. Time passing by and the level of science is growing and we can see a slight step to equity between those two. “Differences between egg and sperm are emphasized, and the parallels between cultural stereotypes of male and female behavior and the character of egg and sperm all point to this conclusion.” – At this period of time some people already agree that the old view may be old and unprofessional. Even thou a lot of scientists such as Like Schatten and Johns Hopkins were trying to show to the people that sperm and egg are equal the final step when some people accept the equality between happened not long time ago in 1987. After this year and officially proved and recorder that egg is doing same amount of work in sex, humanity became more open minded and ready to for a new opinion. I didn’t enjoyed reading of this book and I think that it is many definitions in it and the person without basic biology knowledge’s will be lost, but overall it was interesting to read how author is showing us a fight for the equal rights of the sperm and the egg.
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Yes, there is and should be equality between the egg and the sperm. They both does an equal amount of work. Without the sperm and egg, there will be no reproduction system. I do agree that there were some bio- terminology, but overall at least the author’s main idea was clearly stated.