Eurgh

[bredalot]

Ok, so the more I learn about the human skeleton, the more I understand Brennan's stance on not wanting children. It made sense to me before that she wouldn't want them, necessarily, as career-focused as she is, but it didn't make sense anthropologically. Anthropologically speaking, procreation is a biological drive which she fully acknowledges

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[bredalot]

China! I hear they have lots of extra.

(I have so many related icons I don't know which to use. This is new.)

[oregonblondie]

Apparently (according to my physical anthropology teacher), our bodies are also sort of designed to only be able to naturally birth childern along our own ethnic/geneal lines. So cross-culturalization over the milennia have made delivery even more difficult.

Though babies skulls and things are designed for delivery (like the skulls bones can form and overlap to get through).

We can't stop having babies! Where will all the world's cute come from?! Puppies and sunshine and flowers can't handle that enormous burden all on their own!

[bredalot]

Really? That's interesting - I'll have to ask my professor about that. It seems bizarre, though, unless, say, it's a tiny Asian woman bearing the child of a huge black/Scandinavian man (I don't know why those two are what come to mind when I think "giant"), and that's more a function of size than anything else. I'm intrigued.

That's part of what scares me: obviously, since it happens, it can't be THAT unnatural, but it seems like it was bad planning to make the infant's skull, where the BRAIN is, rearrange itself. :P Seriously, people who believe in intelligent design over evolution confuse me a little: they really think God designed humans so poorly? Besides which, the two aren't mutually exclusive. :D

Babies are most definitely an essential factor in relieving the world's cuteness burden. Think of the puppies, people! :D

[bredalot]

Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, either. I mean, there are also definite distinctions between racial characteristics of the skull, but they aren't radical enough to alter something as violent as childbirth (it's more like "nasal shape" and "ocular orbit size"), and they're variable anyway. There are so many variables that it's hard to say something like that. So I'll ask my professor and report back tomorrow. :D

Yup, exactly. Most animals take a practical approach to childhood: SURVIVE. We take the intellectual approach. :P

[severuslovesme]

OMG I love this excuse to not have babies! I am totally using it. No babies for me. None ;)

[bredalot]

Haha, isn't it great? No, I will NOT crack my pelvis for your children. It's unnatural. Sorry. :D

Of course, that knowledge also makes for great guilt-trips if you DO have them. :P

[stop_theworld]

Someone should tell Violet to use this defense!

[severuslovesme]

Umm, YES. Freaking word :)

[_onebreath]

Wow, this is completely fascinating! I don't know if it stops me wanting to have kids one day, but still, omg! :O

[mysticxf]

LOL! I think if Brennan wanted to say childbirth was unnatural, she'd say it, and really, there's a lot of shit in nature I'd say was just unnatural, but I'm human. Heh.

I always though it interesting that Brennan accepts sex, but not children and when she kind of made a stance based on her experience with Booth and crime solving -- an opinion, IMO, more from her heart than her head -- it humanized her a bit more. It's always awesome when she just SAYS things and isn't sitting there validating it with facts.

[bredalot]

Heh. You're probably right - she doesn't really have an issue with communicating things like that - but still. It's got to be somewhere in the back of her mind. :D

I do love when she says things that she doesn't - or can't - rationalize. She's closed a lot of that part of herself off, but it's been opening up a lot lately, between her father and Booth and Angela, and it's really great to see. :D