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Originally posted by Arbiter Man I don't think we ever got to that subject. I feel robbed.

The class clowns had serious fun with that. We were all on the floor in tears.

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I mean, is this a failure of teaching, or are guys just fooling around in class?

The latter, at least in my class.

Seriously who actually pays attention in health class? And who is actually stupid enough to not know what a woman's cycle is at least five years before you get to health class? I'd say the average person is.

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Average person is stupid enoughnot to know??

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Originally posted by Frenchie Average person is stupid enoughnot to know??

Most definitely.

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Originally posted by Zild Seriously who actually pays attention in health class? And who is actually stupid enough to not know what a woman's cycle is at least five years before you get to health class? I'd say the average person is.

I dunno... I didn't know what the actual blood was from, or why it happened until I was about 13, which was some time after I had ACTUALLY gotten my first period.

It's definitely not like it is just common sense. Unless someone tells you, how the hell are you supposed to know?

If you claim to want to be with us.. you need to know about us.

axe about , nigga axe about me.

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Originally posted by Zild I was joking. But seriously that is the amount of females (at least ones I can tell are female) in my physics and calculus classes.

Yeah, the ratio is similar at the school I went to, as far as I can gather. It's also very obvious in the computer science and engineering departments.

This is kind of a conundrum, because these fields all appear to be ones which reward genuine ability very consistently: there's extremely little room for bullshitting or cronyism in math proofs or physics experiments, so "institutional bias" and "old boys networks" seem rather unlikely as explanations.

Is it just that women are subtly encouraged from a young age to think that they are innately bad in quantitative fields? Do women find them uninteresting? Some other factor or a combination?

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Originally posted by Theresa I dunno... I didn't know what the actual blood was from, or why it happened until I was about 13, which was some time after I had ACTUALLY gotten my first period. It's definitely not like it is just common sense. Unless someone tells you, how the hell are you supposed to know?

Like I said. The average person isn't all that intelligent.

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Originally posted by Theresa I dunno... I didn't know what the actual blood was from, or why it happened until I was about 13, which was some time after I had ACTUALLY gotten my first period. It's definitely not like it is just common sense. Unless someone tells you, how the hell are you supposed to know?

We were taught that in Gr. 5...

a week later *BAM* I hemorrhaged.

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Originally posted by Theresa It's definitely not like it is just common sense. Unless someone tells you, how the hell are you supposed to know?

All families should keep a good medical reference book around. Naturally inquisitive children will find it pretty fascinating.

For the rest, there is health class, which they will pay no attention in.

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Originally posted by Frenchie We were taught that in Gr. 5...

They showed us, with a dildo, how to put a condom on. What ten year-old is going to have use for a condom?