Nerdiness of Nic

It makes me irrationally annoyed when I read femslash fanfic that has it where two cisgendered women having sex leads to pregnancy and then their child is a BOY. Not because, ewww, boys have cooties! But because science! Cisgendered women have XX chromosome which in humans only leads to other women. XY chromosome possessed by men is what makes it able for the fetus to develop into the male sex. You need the Y chromosome to have a boy and if two women having sex somehow leads to a kid then they don't have the correct chromosomes between them to have a boy since they're both XX and XX chromosomes can only reproduce other XX chromosomes or, you know, another girl.

I know, I know, f-preg is sci-fi! It's not real. Or wait, they've already done it in Japan with two female mice and guess what? They only had girls. So yeah. Science. lol. I don't know why it bothers me so much but it does. I don't read much f-preg fanfic but whenever I do and the kid ends up a boy I usually click out. I guess I can only suspend my disbelief so much?

ETA: Using my Janeway frowny face icon because it's awesome and hilarious not because I take this super seriously and it makes me frown that hard. I should do my sixth rewatch for all of Voyager again. I think it's been a year since I last did that.

So I went out yesterday for Cinco de Mayo. Pip reserved a table for a bunch of us at the Hacienda restaurant on Manchester which is one of my favorite Mexican restaurants in St. Louis. Anyway! As fun as it is man people get fucking rowdy. Especially when they show up on the day of a major holiday and expect a table (without reserving one) and don't get one or have to wait hours.

Pip made our reservations a few months ago and they were holding the table for us when we showed up exactly on time at 8 pm and this woman pitched the most embarassing huge shitfit on why were we being seated and they had to wait however many hours. I don't know, maybe because we fucking planned ahead? I hate seeing behavior like that, it's just so juvenile. Especially from someone in their forties who should know better.

The night was fun though and they have great margaritas.

I'm not sure why but it's a required course for my hopeful transfer into the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Thus I'm taking it. My first class was this morning and I wasn't looking forward to it. I'm not a fan of sociology or psychology and the ensuring discussions that result from such classes. I think the only class I dreaded more (but thankfully always was able to avoid) is gender studies.

Anyway! Today after we went through the syllabus my professor, who looks younger than me and that's something which strangely disturbs me despite the fact she has a PhD, said this: Rip a piece of paper in half and give half of it to the person sitting next to you. Then she instructed we were to write two examples of how our lives would be different if one of the three options were to occur.

1. We were born the opposite sex of what we are now.
2. We were born a difference race or ethnicity.
3. We were born into a different social class.

I picked number one because soon as I heard it I immediately thought, "Holy shit. I'd be straight." I know. I'm dorky that way. So I write that down on the paper and I wrote that I probably would've felt more... normal or accepted as a teenager back in the 90's. Then I gave the paper to my neighbor and she gave me hers and we had to discuss it briefly before everyone in the class had to share their answers.

When it got to me I said I chose the option of being born a different sex. I said exactly what I wrote down in my first answer and that was, "I'd be straight." Every other answer in the class lead to some discussion but mine was just...

:::crickets:::

Seriously? lol. So weird. I'm not looking forward to the inevitable discussion on sexual orientation that's happening in May according to the syllabus. This stuff is why I dreaded gender studies. Lame.

In other news, the gf introduced me to Pistachio ice cream this week and oh my god, it's super fucking yummy. Tonight she plans on making a drink from 3 Olives Chocolate vodka and Dr. Pepper or Coke. Katie claims it's just as good as mixing Midori Melon liquor and Mountain Dew and if that's the case I really look forward to tasting it. I swear, I've never tried more new things than I have when I started dating her. It's so fun.