Friday, February 27, 2009

Yeah. I'm an Egg. What's it to ya?


First of all, let me begin this blog by saying that the image at the bottom left is not French Vanilla ice cream with a tinge of whipped cream. It's a human egg- mostly found in females, but with technology, Apple televisions, and electric toothbrushes today, they just might be in some males. Who knows?

Okay. In all seriousness- it's a haploid egg. It can do great things such as aid conception. In my previous blog about the sperm, I decided that sperm are focused, goal oriented, purpose driven, and essentially, have one thing in mind. I was pleased to see all of the feedback in response to what the egg is like by the way; they are all appreciated. I'll give you my spin on this egg business, then I'll announce who's comment came closest to my supreme and infallible judgement (lol) on the egg. Here we go beginning with her life cycle.

From what I've heard (ladies, correct me if I'm wrong), the females release ONE egg a month. If it's not fertilized, it dies, combines with tissues and blood in the uterus, and exits in a process called menstruation. Provided it is fertilized, a zygote is produced which forms in the fallopian tube. As you can imagine, describing the egg is about as complex as describing a woman. This is no easy task.

Due to these two paths, I claim there are two personalities of the egg. Chances are, the eggs all know they wont be fertilized for quite some time, so they're probably depressed, crestfallen, moody, and sad all the time because they're aware of their monthly and irreversible demise. At this point, folks, the egg is emo, and I'd wager, this is why females are very emotional and easily peeved during "that time". Guys, I hope you're taking notes.

At this juncture, I feel a seemingly irrelevant but very necessary side-note is critical. Have you ever had an amazing friend who at one point in time was. . . . . .no so attractive? I don't meant to be superficial here. Her attractiveness, or lack thereof, doesn't diminish from the fact that she's a great person with awesome morals and all that jazz, but physically. . . .ehh. . . well, you all get the point. So you have this friend then ALL OF A SUDDEN (usually over the summer) SHE CHANGES COMPLETELY! It's like a makeover or metamorphosis-a spectacular change. She goes from not to hot in what feels like a fortnight, and with the same quickness that her physical appearance changes, so does her personality (and it's usually a change for the worse). I hope we all agree on this point. Watch this!

THE SAME THING HAPPENS WITH THE EGG! Once she gets a glimmer of hope in the form of a fusiform, flagellated sperm swimming her way, a change happens, and it's for the worse. She becomes proud and narcissistic. "OOOH look at meee. I'm the only egg. There are 30,000 of you sperm, and there's one of me." That's what she says. I've heard it. All the while, she's playing hard to get while whirling around in a most concentric and seductive manner. She makes the sperm go crazy, and they lose all rational thinking. Instead of joining forces and fertilizing her all at once, they fight against each other until one valiant sperm wins. She brings her past of pain and loss to the sperm because, just like with her, one sperm engages in fertilization, and all the rest die. What a shame, folks. What a shame.

Now, use your imaginations, viewers. If the emotional state of the egg during menstruation has an affect on the female as a whole, do you think this change in the egg who has hopes to be fertilized will have an affect on the female as a whole? The answer is yes. I've seen it all too many times. A group of males find a female attractive, and the female wreaks havoc on on them and all sorts of bad stuff happens. It's a social tragedy that results in complete destruction of the male social dynamic until that female is removed, or those males calm down and think. I won't even go further in to that aspect, but that's my take on the egg.

Again, thanks for reading!
Is my concept of the egg right?
Post thoughts, responses, concerns, and everything in between in the comments section.

VERDICT!
The viewer who's perspective of the egg matched mine most was Chelsea. Congratulations, Chelsea, for thinking outside the box, sprinkling your ideas with a LITTLE feminism, and coming as close as possible to my ideas. All other comments made the egg seem weak, listless, and in need of a sperm in shining armor to save/fertilize her. Talk about sterotypical!

Update!
Katy, in her comments, brought to my attention an error I made concerning the unused sperm in fertilization. The unused sperm remain in the female from 2-5days after which they die and are flushed to Waste Management in via pee. Katy, thanks for the comment, and I hope this helps.

1 comment:

Chelsea said...

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
I won the egg challenge!