Women's influence on Baby's Gender...

... Is (finally) being taken into consideration, even if it is based on something that seems as unimportant as the mother's nutritional habbits around the time of conception and during pregnancy.

I have to admitt that this research is a step in the right direction, but there is still a very long way to go until science realizes HOW truly influential is the woman's contribution to the baby's gender. Something that, until now, was awarded to the male and father who -as science thought- determined the baby's gender through his sperm.

If an X sperm would fertilize the woman's egg then it would be a girl, and if it's a Y sperm, it would be a boy.

Based on this 'rusted' scientific assumption, the male and father was the sole contributor to the baby's gender leaving the woman's role to mainly be that of the womb that would carry the baby to term.

Now, it seems that this is old-fashioned idea will be changing. Finally, science is discovering HOW important a woman's and mother's contribution to humankind actually is, and it begins by also influencing her baby's gender.

Through this new information, based on something as simple as what kind of nutrition did the mother consume around the time of conception, and during her pregnancy, it seems that the mother's body has a lot more to say about the child's gender than science ever thought possible.

It is a scientific fact that what food we eat and what diet we follow, influnces our body's chemistry and the chemical reactions (communication) that take place between different organs, including our brain that influnces our emotions, as they too are chemical reactions. Food can play thus a vital role in the body's chemistry, and now it is also shown through this latest research that food can also play a role in the conception process.

What if the chemistry of the woman's body influnces which sperm (the X or the Y) gets to fertilize the woman's egg? What if the outer layer of the egg for example, based on this chemistry, plays the role of a bouncer and either permits or fences off the wanted or unwanted 'gender' of the sperm?

What if the woman's body, based on the food it eats -which food represents environmental conditions and give the body an indication of the 'outside' circumstances and conditions where the baby will be born- can decide what gender is necessary to either strengthen these outside circumstances and conditions or change them? Think about it for a minute...

The environmental changes in the water, earth, sun-light, and air - representing the four basic elements of water, air, fire and earth, are present in the food we eat as they influnce the quality and the chemicals present in what we eat that then enter our body and affect the chemical reaction within our body and now these chemical reaction can affect and also influence the gender of the child that a woman concives while living in these environmental changes.

A full circle!

This knowledge will not only change the way society perceives the females and maybe realize that it should be a female oriented society instead of the male oriented society it is today, since all of the male superiority and machoism all around the world is based on the fact that the male is the one that gives the world its two genders. Because until now we had to thank the male for other males and females being born, because ONLY the male has the two variations of X and Y in their genetic material that the new organism needs. The male sperm, thought science until now, was the sole determinant of which way the mix would go: a male child or a female child.

Surprise, surprise!!!

The new evidence shows that it may very well be that the male gets to offer both X and Y in his sperm, but ... it is the WOMAN'S BODY that decides which one will be accepted and allowed to fertilize the egg! The woman's body, and the chemistry inside that body form the link between environmental changes and the new generations, and that link is placed through the food we eat, because the food is the part of the environment that enters our body and 'changes it' accordingly to match whatever is happening in the environment.

And we thought that as civilized creatures we had escaped Darwin's profecy of the survival of the fittest, where the environment decides who exactly the fittest will be. Wrong. All we did with our civilization was affect the environment, which is now kicking back and showing us that we are all connected more than we want to know.

All these years, by disregarding the true contribution of the woman, the female, in the course of the humankind, we created the stage for situations to happen that we are now paying for. If we had realized how the environment influnces the very gender of each generation, and if so maybe think of what more might it be influncing (could autism be one of them? Actually yes, it is... more on this later) we might have been more careful of what we do with our water, air, soil and sun-light!!!

But maybe it is not too late. Finally the truth is out. I have foretold many times throughout my blog the rise of the female, the rise of the YIN, and the slow eclipse of the YANG!

The time has come for mankind to realize that we are entering an era that I call the 'Eclipse of the Male' and the 'Dawn of the Female'. The world needs women to take over and help the world heal, by nurishing it - the female nature is the nurishing that we all need.

Ladies, it is time for humanity to see, know, and realize HOW important is a woman, and how much she deserves a place -that is not just in word equal to the male- but in full practice.

It is us WOMEN who hold mankind's future in our bodies, it is us who have been neglected and abused and ruled over by male dominance because they thought we were just a hollow body that the male could fertilize and thus procreate.

Now, our importance and contribution is slowly surfacing. This research is a small step, a small step that is just as huge for humanity as the small step mankind took on the Moon ... Yes, the Moon, the symbol of womanhood and the female. Coincidence? Maybe not. The future will show.

Keep your eyes and ears peeled! This is my prediction: The future belongs to the FEMALE!

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Some Basic Stuff as a Warm Up

To begin explaining some things about Autism, I need to first 'review' some basic stuff, like for example the difference between the male and the female brain. This is necessary, because Autism has been referred to as the 'extreme male brain' by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, because of the way that the autistic mind functions.

Yet, one needs to realize that there are males and females who have autism, and thus it is of great importance to understand how the autistic extreme male brain will interact with the brain of a male and the brain of a female.

The female brain is wired in a different way, it is wired for empathy and this means that the extreme male brain's tendency of the autistic way of thinking will be put into a different kind of use than with male Auties and Aspies. Males in general because of their male brain wiring are more concerned with their own personal advancement, their own career, their own greatness, their own kingdom on earth.

Women on the other hand are more concerned with helping others, teaching others, networking with others, not for personal gratification but for feeling that they have managed to bring forth (give birth to) a better life, a better world, not for the world but for the people. Women want to help people in particular, while men want to help the world in general.

This difference is based on our genetic gender goals: a female seeks a safe nest, a safe place to give birth and bring up her young, this will compel her to create this safe place by making sure that the people around her are foe and not enemies. That is why women are more interested in socializing, networking, creating a group of allies around them that will help them protect her young. After all humans are part predators (meat eaters) but also part prey (we can be eaten by other predatory meat eaters).

Like the female animals of a herd that become sexually available and give birth at the same time to ensure that safety is in numbers is present when the young are born, the same way human females 'network' to create a timing, a perceived safety, for their young. It is common knowledge that if several women live in close proximity with each other, in the same household, their menstrual cycle will eventually become the same. They will become like the female animals of a herb that time their pregnancies and birthing so that it corresponds with the rest of the females in the herd.

This is what empathy is, it the instinct of the herd as a group that cooperates together, it is the HERDING instinct that promotes safety and eventually the survival of the species. Males on the other hand are more concerned of their own personal image, they have to prove to the female that they are worth mating with her and allowing the next generation to carry his genes. Males do whatever they do as a show-off of their ability and talents so they will attract the female's attention. They also have to fight off other males, by for example butting heads with each other like rams do, by proving their superiority to them, and showing that they deserve more than the other male(s) the prize of procreation.

Likewise a male with High Functioning Autism (HFA) or Asperger's Syndrome (AS), is doing whatever he is doing as a proof of their own self-worth, as a proof that they are better than another male (or more intelligent for example), and that they are someone worth mating with. If you look carefully you will see that it is mostly men (with HFA or AS or not) that have gotten Nobel prizes, and NOT that many women. Not because women are less capable, or because their work is less groundbreaking. It is because women are more concerned to benefiting others in an individual basis, than with promoting their self-worth through generalized impersonal non-individualized work.

Men are out for the prize: the honor to allow their genes to exist in future generations. Whether men are aware of that or not it is not important, it is still the underlining motivation to anything and everything they do. With HFA/AS men, because of their extreme male brain coupled with the male wiring of their brain, this need is even more extreme and so are the disappointments if this end is not achieved.

This means that a HFA/AS male that has not been given the opportunity to fulfill that need will reject society all together, will reject the competitiveness, feeling he can't compete with other males and that will he will never find a female (love shyness). A HFA/ASfemale feels more the effects of loneliness as an isolation. It is the HFA/AS female that suffer more from the lack of friends and social networking. Men suffer loneliness because of the lack of a (female) partner more than the lack of friends or a social network.

But there is a catch. Because of their extreme male brain-ness HFA/AS females tend to feel the same need (even if it is at a lesser degree than the HFA/AS male) to prove their self-worth by butting heads. They will do that either with their peers and come across as tomboys, either with their boyfriends and come across as dominant and aggressive, or with their husbands and come across as overbearing and controlling. A female, according to the gender stereotyping of society, is not expected to butt heads with others and when this happens the others are taken back by this exhibition of male aggressiveness.

If the 'others' don't butt heads back, the HFA/AS female will not be able to accept them as equal to her, or better. She will then either see them as 'weak' and needy and take over the roll of caregiver, by acting as a 'mother' or will see them as week and intellectually inferior and manipulate them by becoming a control freak as a means for survival.

Or will find them too weak, needy and intellectually inferior and refuse to mother them, control them, deal with them all together and choose isolation. This last kind of withdrawal can also happen to HFA/AS males, too, who see the people and the society around them as not worth dealing with at all and live a life withdrawn from social contacts.