Friday, June 13, 2008

Science, Man Boobs and Harrison Ford



According to Meredith Small, Human Nature Columnist for LiveScience, the above photo supposedly shows Harrison Ford wearing a man-bra. She claims, "Ford is dressed in a pair of black pants and a slate blue T-shirt that shows off his buff mid section. But that T-shirt also reveals the shadow of what has to be a manzeer, in the parlance of Seinfeld."
I still don't see it, but whether or not Harrison Ford shops at Victoria's Secret is not the point here. The real issue is why do men have breasts in the first place?
They have them because men start out as women.
As much as men hate to hear this, the human fetal blueprint is initially female. We all begin as a ball of cells that quickly differentiates into various body parts. At five weeks of gestation, the fetus sports a neural tube that eventually become the spine, but other than that, we all look like a wad of chewing gum. Then at six weeks' gestation, the outlines of eyes, arms, legs and a face (and let's not mention the tail that also shows up for a while) appear.
In other words, men have breasts and nipples because they already had them before they became male.(Source: LiveScience)

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