What I learned today: Manmilk
14 years ago
General
This time he hits you in the face right off.
"what do you think the common features or traits of these Fertility idols are?"
Then after that he just starts to talk about the idols and review the last five minutes of the last class.
After a brief translation of the word Paleolithic we go back to the "features" the dolls have in common.
So this inevitably leads to the fact that men can actually make themselves lactate. Thats right... MANMILK!
Then he goes on to talk about how nipples are special modified sweat glands. Not only that he also tells us that milk is a type of modified sweat. Pretty picture when your eating your coco puffs.
He finally gets to how hunter/gatherer society. back on track you might say? no.
He starts the "where babys come from" talk. Dead serious. Then he went on to talk about the dangers of childbirth, and that giving birth is like a grapefruit going through a garden hose.
Then we get a sesame street type lesson called "differences between men and women."
Then we-... HE talked about womens hips and why they are larger. Then he rants about... I have no idea long about pregnancy's in general.
Then he starts talking about how obelisks are phallic references to old Egyptian culture.
Then he spends a while on fertility worship.
he started talking about the cave paintings and hunters. and explains to us these unters on not some guys with miniguns shooting in the forest.... (yeah no idea where that one came from either.
Finally he said that the caves the paintings were painted in were not used for living in. SO he said that the hunters went into these cave "Which symbolize the Womb" and when they did they painted these drawings all over the walls "Which symbolize seed". So theyre you have it. its apparently all an elaborate metaphor for impregnation.
"what do you think the common features or traits of these Fertility idols are?"
Then after that he just starts to talk about the idols and review the last five minutes of the last class.
After a brief translation of the word Paleolithic we go back to the "features" the dolls have in common.
So this inevitably leads to the fact that men can actually make themselves lactate. Thats right... MANMILK!
Then he goes on to talk about how nipples are special modified sweat glands. Not only that he also tells us that milk is a type of modified sweat. Pretty picture when your eating your coco puffs.
He finally gets to how hunter/gatherer society. back on track you might say? no.
He starts the "where babys come from" talk. Dead serious. Then he went on to talk about the dangers of childbirth, and that giving birth is like a grapefruit going through a garden hose.
Then we get a sesame street type lesson called "differences between men and women."
Then we-... HE talked about womens hips and why they are larger. Then he rants about... I have no idea long about pregnancy's in general.
Then he starts talking about how obelisks are phallic references to old Egyptian culture.
Then he spends a while on fertility worship.
he started talking about the cave paintings and hunters. and explains to us these unters on not some guys with miniguns shooting in the forest.... (yeah no idea where that one came from either.
Finally he said that the caves the paintings were painted in were not used for living in. SO he said that the hunters went into these cave "Which symbolize the Womb" and when they did they painted these drawings all over the walls "Which symbolize seed". So theyre you have it. its apparently all an elaborate metaphor for impregnation.
FA+

He is right about the manmilk though. Male mammals still have mammary glans, albeit drastically reduced ones. Fun fact, men can get breast cancer.
You can see the "mammary glans as modified sweat glans" thing in duckbilled platypuses. To nurse their babies, they ooze sweat from their pores, and the babies lap it up with their beaks.