Word: androgeneity
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...these changes in final club membership rules have me confused. I'd like to ask my friend to punch me for the Porcellian, but the problem is, he thinks I am a woman. Actually, I'm genetically male but androgen-insensitive, so only my phenotype is female. How can I bring up the subject and let him know I'd like to join the club? XY who wants...
...yellow-white substance. Despite its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential to life: it is a building block of the outer membrane of cells, and it is a principal ingredient in the digestive juice bile, in the fatty sheath that insulates nerves, and in sex hormones such as estrogen and androgen. Although most of the cholesterol found in the body is produced in the liver, 20% to 30% generally comes from the food...
...plot, what there is of it, involves classical mythology, specifically, Hera's displeasure at Zeus's chasing a girl, Swoedipus. The girl is banished to a desert island, cleverly named Isle of Lucy, from which she is rescued by Androgen, her human lover, after he has consulted various oracles, performed various labors, and, appropriately, suffered. With domineering females made to look stupid, with retarded juvenile and cardboard characters floating around and with the chorus line, the show has what most Pudding audiences like...
Acting with no character to develop, an odd exercise, becomes a contest in comparative idiocy. The losers on opening night included Rick Hagan as Androgen, Ray Nied as Pritteples, and Steven Kolzak as Swoedipus, though Kolzak was unusual in the cast for having a good voice and being audible. Generally the diction was about as muddy as the Hasty Pudding yogurt served at halftime...
...normal process of sexual differentiation, Money explains, if the genes order the gonads to become testes and to produce androgen, the embryo develops as a boy; otherwise it becomes a girl. Androgen not only shapes the external genitals but also "programs" parts of the brain, so that some types of behavior may come more naturally to one sex than to the other. For instance, both men and women can mother children-the necessary circuits are there in every brain-but the "threshold" for releasing this behavior is higher in males than in females. The same phenomenon is demonstrated by laboratory...