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The Y chromosome: Fixing problems on one's own
posted by Thomas on Wednesday June 18, @03:23PM
from the News dept.
News For years we've heard gleeful titters from feminists about how defects in the Y chromosome can't be repaired. Every other chromosome is paired and can take information from its partner to correct faults. The Y chromosome, having no match, has been cast as inferior, unable to correct its damaged genes. It has even been stated that the chromosome and, therefore, men would disappear in about a million years.

Well knock me over with a feather. Guess what? That clever bit of genetic information that makes a man a man seems to have a way of solving the dilemma. It just works things out on its own! Problem solving on one's own can be difficult, of course, and in this case causes trouble in one out of every several thousand boys, but "'Y chromosomes really have a big trick up their sleeves,' said David Page of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass."

Take a look and have yourselves a good laugh of satisfaction. The Y chromosome is not the decaying piece of trash that feminists would have us believe. It just solves problems in its own way.

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That's great ! (Score:1)
by rage on Wednesday June 18, @04:36PM EST (#1)
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These findings also mean that the scandalous Steve Jones' book "Y : the descent of man" is now totally meaningless and stupid......sorry male-feminazi, but men aren't going to disappear in millions of years from now !

Great news, really.

Re:That's great ! (Score:2)
by Thomas on Wednesday June 18, @04:50PM EST (#2)
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Steve Jones strikes me as one of the most pathetic femboys ever to come down the pike. Yes, his book is ridiculous trash.
Re:That's great ! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Wednesday June 18, @07:23PM EST (#3)
Ya and I never needed a new study to tell me those feminists were full of shit with their nazi style propaganda studies, or if that dickweed had any substance to his bullshit in the first place.

Dan Lynch
Re:That's great ! (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday June 19, @01:44PM EST (#5)
It is.

Someone could just as easily now since we know the Y chromosone maintains itself, write a book saying that females are useless since we could just use artificial wombs and as you remember from a previous article, male eggs.

Imagine that, since many males would have the same Y chromosone, you could just pick some select Y chromosones, says an Einstein here, a Newton here, a Da Vinchi there, and a Mozart over here ( I just used those names because they are well known, we would find living equivalents), have those continously passed on, and they will keep themselves repaired. Wow, amazing.

Of course such an idea is stupid, but it just goes to femboy steve jones isn't the only one who can make up crazy ideas of a one gender world.
Re:That's great ! (Score:1)
by BusterB on Thursday June 19, @02:10PM EST (#6)
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Anyone who writes a book about what will happen in millions of years, unless it's on the scale of cosmology, is automatically an idiot.

Too much can happen between now and then to make such ditherings meaningful.
Here's a better article (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday June 19, @08:04AM EST (#4)
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceN ews&storyID=2950615 This one is more positive sounding
Re:Here's a better article (Score:1)
by thatold55 on Thursday June 19, @04:16PM EST (#8)
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No. I don't think so. Look at these statements...

      ...it [the Y chromosome] is not as puny as
        scientists believed

      "Does analyzing the sequence of the Y
      chromosome tell us why men are incapable
      of stopping to ask for directions?" asked
      Dr. David Page... "I don't think we have an
      answer to that yet. It remains a great
      mystery."

      "It was believed for years that the Y,
      a small, fragile chromosome compared to
      the X, was a genetic wasteland."

      "It [the Y chromosome] is not merely a
      rotted-out version of an ancient, ordinary,
      [X] chromosome."

      "This gene says 'I can can do it myself',"
      joked Dr. Francis Collins...

Once again, members of the scientific community and media have taken very interesting research and let their anti-male bias creep in like some intellectual virus. Also, they keep talking about the Y-chromosome's affect on humans, as though only human males have Y-chromosomes. I am not a biologist, but don't all birds and mammals, and most fish and reptiles have males of the specied with Y-chromosomes? Something must be right with the concept for these species to have continued evolving for hundreds of millions of years.


A thing of beauty (Score:2)
by Thomas on Thursday June 19, @02:53PM EST (#7)
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One of the beautiful things about this is the evidence that the Y chromosome not only repairs its defects, when the defects remain they are generally associated with infertility. Not only do they not end up degrading all other Y chromosomes over time, they don't even make it into the next generation.
Good observation (nt) (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday June 19, @04:45PM EST (#9)
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Time for science with Mister Chromosome (Score:0)
by Anonymous User on Thursday June 19, @05:24PM EST (#10)
One thing I've always wanted to say to every disrespecting thing I've ever heard about the Y chromosome. I might as well say it here where it would be better respected... Please keep in mind that I read this one fact a while ago, and I may have gotten mixed up with which species does what.:

Did you know that MALE birds have XX chromosomes and FEMALE birds have XY? And along that lines, there are several species that have YY chromosomes. Hence, the Y chromosome is NOT just a piece of genetic trash to be cleansed in whatever new world order happens. It's just as important.
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