The Egg and the Sperm

Male and female, even today in society are argued almost to be as an inferior and superior sex. Even before being conceived, men are treated as the dominant sex with having more positive attributes. This is seen in the article where it is looked down upon for a woman to go through menstruation and it being considered a failure and a shedding of lining resulting in blood from a non-fertilized egg only occurring once per month. Women’s organs are also seen as old and wiped out, and eventually are deemed useless by them dying out. Men’s reproduction capabilities are seen as a tremendous capability of strength and power, because they are able to produce millions of sperm each day. When describing the reproduction process, the egg and sperm are already associated with words and qualities stereotyped as feminine and masculine, such as “the egg doesn’t move or journey, but is transported along the fallopian tube” and the sperm as mentioned “can burrow through the egg coat and penetrate it”, aggressive phrasing to prove the masculinity. These stereotypes of the egg and sperm would later be deemed to just be a myth and aren’t actually in fact the real way in which the organs act, but rather contradict the truth, in which the sperm is seen to be weak. Because of this research and study of the egg and sperm, rather than referring to these reproductive organs as aggressors and weaklings, they are just known to be different. Humans being given stereotypes shouldn’t force them to become who they are and fit into a certain mold and criteria. Humans should be free and natural to become other than what society makes them out to be before and after birth.

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