ColI just bought an answering machine.
What should I ask it?
What should I ask it?
🇨🇦 Little-k@kibcol1049
Why do we have belly buttons?
I mean, why didn't it just heal over like all other wounds or injuries?
Dud (Mx)@OohOkayKay Because it's where we were injection moulded. @kibcol1049
Andy Wootton@BackFromTheDud @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049 I just realised there used to be a tube connecting us all back to pre-humans, via a long line of mothers. It's very odd that men are given priority on family trees.
@woo Some cultures trace the family line through the female, because you KNOW who the mum is (usually, there are exceptions). I went back to the end of the 18th century using parish records from mother to mother, tracing my own lineage. I got to Wolverhampton in the west Midlands. @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049
isotope239 🥸💻🇺🇦😣@BackFromTheDud @woo @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049 Shakespeare has a line for everything: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/it_is_a_wise_child_that_knows_his_own_father
@BackFromTheDud @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049 I live 8 Miles from Wolverhampton. I was born in Walsall WS1.
Steve Holden@woo @BackFromTheDud @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049
Not at all odd in a patriarchy, now almost universal and the primary cause of the sad state of the world.
Not at all odd in a patriarchy, now almost universal and the primary cause of the sad state of the world.
HighlandLawyer@woo @BackFromTheDud @OohOkayKay @kibcol1049
There's a whole lot of interesting links. Like mitochondria descend solely along the female line. Every woman has an x chromosome from both of her grandmothers. Every man has a y chromosome descended through their paternal line.
But family trees are entirely social constructs, so simply reflect the attitudes of the society in which they are constructed.