I was taking some time to decide on the word for X and requested my daughter to help me. She suggested this. The moment she said this, I just had a flash into my younger years.
When I was in school, we studied cell division, new cells, and all that stuff. We were beating around the bush but the topic of sex education was never approached. The herd of sheep was brought up without any basic knowledge of the most basic function of human beings. I was rudely shocked to read about it in some book. Am glad that sex education is part of the system now. I just hope that the transfer of knowledge happens at the basic level.
I wondered if I had been curious to know what is the big fuss about all the things like – don’t wear revealing clothes, cover up your chest, start wearing pavadai davani as soon as you start developing the breasts, and many such things. Personally, I feel that pavadai davani reveals more than it can cover!
Coming to the topic, my ignorance about the sex chromosomes continued till I joined college. Even though I studied Engineering and our brains were filled with numbers and equations, thankfully the gossip was more biologically oriented. I think it was some news about female infanticide that caught my attention and I started learning more about it.
I was pleasantly surprised to know that the gender of the baby is decided by the chromosome of the man! I came to understand this rude truth after I crossed the age to vote. WOW! And why do women go through such painful moments of not keeping a baby because someone in the family desired a boy to be born! This kind of news disturbed me a lot.
The play of the chromosomes happens in a few minutes. But when the XX or XY (and there is an XYY too) forms, too many people interfere in the decision. (Read more on the sex chromosomes here – link)
May the mothers have the freedom to be and may the child have the freedom to live!
UmaS Reflections 
What an important topic to cover in X. Wish people have the freedom to choose. Female infanticide disturbs me a lot too. I can’t imagine the mom’s plight.
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I love how this one brings awareness to the fact that most of Us, just go through the cultural norms of “Marry, have children, raise children, get them married, get them to have children……” without knowing the basics of how children happen; the idea that others can decide what happens with a Girl/female/Woman; And the Heights of Irony- the hypocrisy of people acting surprised at the fact that women are the first ones to get stomped on in any event. Just Mindboggling!
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