[stylist] thanks for the comments, plus more on male and female gender

[Eve Sanchez]

Vejas, Please be careful. I do not consider myself clueless. I am an
educated person and understand the role of genetics and DNA. The sex of a
child IS determined by the biological father. That is a proven fact that is
quite easy to understand if someone takes the time to learn about it. That
has nothing to little to do with your premise of a medical condition that
causes someone to only be able to carry one sex and not another. (Just for
clarification; there is more than two sexes if you consider that 25% of all
births are hermaphrodites.) Just because there seems to be a propensity for
something occurring does not make it medically problematic. I have not done
the research on it, but am willing to wager there is no medical cause for
such occurrences. If you want to use this 'unable to carry a boy' in a
story and make it believable, I would either do more research on the matter
or alter the wording to reflect the reality that the woman had wanted a
boy, but never successfully carried one to term, without a fictitious
medical condition, or both. I feel you enjoy writing about multiples and
will someday write something that will be important in the literary world
involving this subject. It will not happen though if you do not learn your
subject. Please consider this advice. Eve

On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 9:31 PM, vejas <brlsurfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I appreciate that you enjoyed my story and took the time to make comments,
> especially since today is Thanksgiving (but it'll probably be tomorrow by
> the time you see it lol.)
> Robert and Chris, thanks for the grammatical corrections.
> Eve and Chris, yes, it would have been strange for a textbook to have
> swear words.  Therefore I could maybe have the teacher print out a sheet
> with the words and want the kids to learn them.
> Eve, both Milena and Danny were to blame in this scene.  Milena was mad
> because Danny climbed onto the fountain and she wanted it all for herself.
>  But in adition, Danny splashed her and she pushed him.
> So about this gender thing.  It's a subject that I'm quite interested in.
>  In doing research for it, I've come up with different opinions of this.
>  First there's the clueless people that go "it's the man's choice because
> the male determines the x or y chromosome." Many say that losing a child is
> common and there's no proof that people can carry a certain gender.  But
> then there are people who have had a long list of children, and one gender
> survives and another is always lost.
> In my character's case, since multiple-birth pregnancies are so risky, it
> was most likely an unlucky coincidence that the 2 that were lost were just
> boys.  I used this to show the reason why Danny's sisters and mother valued
> him so much.
> Have a great rest of the break.
> Vejas
>
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