{"id":550,"date":"2019-12-21T15:57:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/?p=550"},"modified":"2019-12-21T15:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-12-21T20:58:35","slug":"misleading-diagram-of-genital-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/2019\/12\/21\/misleading-diagram-of-genital-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading diagram of genital development"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a 2009 cartoon of genital development from a human embryology textbook.\u00a0 At least 4 components are misleading.<\/h3>\n

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1) As illustrated, the neutral genital tubercle becomes a phallus (usually a gendered term) by 9 weeks but other regions are not gendered.<\/p>\n

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2) Other reproductive regions obtain gendered names at 12 weeks but the female side retains the \u2018legs\u2019 used for the prior, more infantile conditions.<\/p>\n

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3) An even more subtle difference is that the arrow to the male side is longer, again suggesting that the female condition is closer to the infantile state.<\/p>\n

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4) Finally, in the late fetus (8-9 mo) cartoon, the female genitalia have become smaller, but the male structures have not.<\/p>\n

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Thus, the overall impression is that female genitalia are infantile and not as developed as male genitalia.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a 2009 cartoon of genital development from a human embryology textbook.\u00a0 At least 4 components are misleading. 1) As illustrated, the neutral genital tubercle becomes a phallus (usually a gendered term) by 9 weeks but other regions are not gendered.     2) Other reproductive regions obtain gendered names at 12 weeks but… Read More Misleading diagram of genital development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias","category-when-images-go-wrong"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/reproduction-a-female-perspective\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}