Exactly, and your average woman eats it right up. My mom showed me this story and I immediately said it was horseshit. I thought she would know better but it's the kind of story designed to make women react first and think later (or not at all).
There’s a multitude of factors being looked at for why sexual development it’s being impacted so rapidly. One of the leading theories is the use of plastics and human consumption of plastics. This is the “taint measuring” Joe Rogan often references. Other theories track with the mass use of birth control having untended consequences to female hormone regulation. So women pregnant even after being off birth control have messed up hormone cycles that impact fetus development. Both would be massive trends that track chronologically and we know how birth control had caused fetus issues before, it’s not hard to see this as one of the reason why. The frogs being gay was a Berkeley study on pesticide runoff impact on environment. The pesticides messed with the frogs so much it mutated their gender.
The other one I'm aware of is lack of males in the home leading to quicker onset of puberty so they'll become sexually desirable and therefor some male will acquire them and presumably provide for them, or at least that's how I understand the mechanism to play out in a state of nature.
Dunno if there's validity to that one, but it sounds plausible on paper at least.
I think the average is like 11.9, I looked it up yesterday after a very similar discussion.
I'm not sure how much variance there is, but I'd imagine 10 is, while still uncommon, well within the realm of possibility.
Doesn't make this story any less bullshit, though. The issue isn't just her age, it's the bias of the primary source, the lack of other sources or any corroborating evidence, and the zero actual digging surrounding it. This is an incredibly convenient story that everyone is running with, and they won't look into because it's more useful to assume it's true than uncover that it isn't.
What percentage of girls have even reached puberty by age 10? It seems like this is an age picked for the most shock value and being semi realistic.
Exactly, and your average woman eats it right up. My mom showed me this story and I immediately said it was horseshit. I thought she would know better but it's the kind of story designed to make women react first and think later (or not at all).
girls are getting periods earlier and guys are developing later, almost like theres something happening that could have caused this trend......
What? Same thing that turns the frogs gay?
There’s a multitude of factors being looked at for why sexual development it’s being impacted so rapidly. One of the leading theories is the use of plastics and human consumption of plastics. This is the “taint measuring” Joe Rogan often references. Other theories track with the mass use of birth control having untended consequences to female hormone regulation. So women pregnant even after being off birth control have messed up hormone cycles that impact fetus development. Both would be massive trends that track chronologically and we know how birth control had caused fetus issues before, it’s not hard to see this as one of the reason why. The frogs being gay was a Berkeley study on pesticide runoff impact on environment. The pesticides messed with the frogs so much it mutated their gender.
The other one I'm aware of is lack of males in the home leading to quicker onset of puberty so they'll become sexually desirable and therefor some male will acquire them and presumably provide for them, or at least that's how I understand the mechanism to play out in a state of nature.
Dunno if there's validity to that one, but it sounds plausible on paper at least.
I think the average is like 11.9, I looked it up yesterday after a very similar discussion.
I'm not sure how much variance there is, but I'd imagine 10 is, while still uncommon, well within the realm of possibility.
Doesn't make this story any less bullshit, though. The issue isn't just her age, it's the bias of the primary source, the lack of other sources or any corroborating evidence, and the zero actual digging surrounding it. This is an incredibly convenient story that everyone is running with, and they won't look into because it's more useful to assume it's true than uncover that it isn't.
It's true, Aisha apparently started at age 9. But she didn't get pregnant from Muhammad.
Guinness says the youngest pregnancy ever was nine.
Of course, like most world records, that's an EXTREME OUTLIER.
We do not change laws based on fringe cases.