I love me some Sex and the City (SATC). The show aired when I was in college and graduate school and I hardly watched it, because what college girl can afford HBO? But many years and unedited viewings later, I've grown to fucking love the show. Four women with vastly different opinions speaking frankly, FRANKLY, about topics that affect me. It's the frankness I love. I grew up in a frank family, and frank is how I like to be. Samantha may be my spirit animal.
But one thing about SATC really friggin bugs me on a scientific level. When Miranda gets pregnant she complains that it's the "Special Olympics of conception" because she has a lazy ovary (fine, so she ovulates every other month) and that Steve has only one testicle. SO FUCKING WHAT! Doesn't everyone know that millions of sperm come out the penis during each ejaculation? Perhaps having one testicle removed makes you ejaculate a few million less sperm, but only one little guy needs to penetrate that egg shell. The testes don't alternate, like ovaries. God damn. I hate to think that my Miranda doesn't know some basic biology.
Then again, she just found out she's pregnant. Maybe she was trying to make a joke, and knows it's not at all the Special Olympics.
And maybe I should get a life.
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