Submitted 1 month ago by Kaelygon@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
-Easier birth control: Make the egg into an omelette
-Relaxed child support laws: Requires deliberate decision to incubate the egg
-Clean packaged periods: Egg = No mess!
Although, there would be stories about partners hiding fertilized eggs: Instead of unplanned parenthood we would have unconsensual parenthood
There’s probably more nuances I am missing. But do discuss it in the comments.
You know damn well lawmakers would make omelettes illegal
Yup. Eggs>livebirth. They’re also easier to expel because the shell helps it to slide through. Once you get it about 2/3rds of the way out, simply relaxing causes the rest to come out on its own. Still painful, but at least goes part of the way itself. Plus you don’t have to deal with a squirming, screaming creature wanting to gorge itself on your nutrient sacks while you’re trying to recover.
Shock eggs are horrifying though. Yanno, when you thought your boyfriend pulled out and then you accidently commit infanticide.
And how much are you asking for in research funding?
Ever raise chicks? It’s very informative of what egglaying requires.
Keep in mind the animals that lay eggs have a type of body that can sit and incubate and often it requires both parents to sit.
Additionally sit- Incubating this way is super inefficient and means you have to sit in one place to keep a constant temperature as opposed to our current strapped on method which means the child is constantly incubated in an ideal environment leaving the parent free to do things like keep a job to support child/hunt for food.
It has the best means for survival as you don’t end up leaving your embryo to be snatched or crushed.
And usually if your holding a child you’re also supplying milk which means the parent only has to look after feeding themselves traditionally while supplying milk which is far more readily available vitamins for the baby.
If anything you have to be much more dedicated with your time and intention and worry to be an egg layer.
Yes, my parents used to have chickens. It’s unlikely that the incubation period would be 9 months and being oviparous has It’s own challenges. If humans did evolve that route I’d imagine that we’d have overcome most of the issues. Dinosaurs being one example, it’s possible humans would be cold blooded and have learned the joy of regurgitation. It comes down to speculation whether human like intelligence could have evolved with these limitations.
Hasn’t it been discovered that dinosaurs were largely warm blooded like the birds they evolved into?
A single shoot for everything like the cloaca sounds terrible though
The GOP would have you tried for murder if you didn’t incubate. I’m not sure why you think their stance on women not having control of their own bodies would change.
It did brush my mind as I’m still baffled about some abortion laws even if there’s no brain development. But if it was an egg, it would be hard to enforce it and some eggs aren’t fertilized. I bet someone would try to outlaw having a miscarriage if they could.
Considering some states are already doing criminal investigations around miscarriages, probably.
Return to monotreme.
The thing with eggs is that they would probably have to be huge. I guess that the egg would maybe have to be 10x the size of the finished baby (Idk for sure though) due to inefficiencies in the food metabolism. While for chickens, that’s not a problem because the babies are small, for humans it would be difficult.
Yeah, nah mate. Shiela’s should grow a pouch.
“ohh yeah cum inside me” will now be changed into “ohh yeah bukkake right onto this egg i just laid”
Isn’t that just fish?
I thought birds still fuc
If by “fuc” you mean pushing cloaca at each other then yes they fuck. But for most bird species males don’t have a penis for penetration
The image of a period being a single neat package made me unable to consider anything else then bird eggs.
I was so confused by your comment, i had to look it up.
-Easier birth control: Make the egg into an omelette
That’s abortion, at least going by bird eggs.
Much safer than whatever people did before abortion clinics, though!
There’s a movie about that. Well, it’s about high-tech incubator eggs that promise relief from the toils of pregnancy so mothers can go on working (so they can afford said proprietary incubator eggs). Not a great movie, but it was interesting. Don’t remember the title unfortunately.
frickineh@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No thank you. The eggs would have to be enormous to develop into a human baby, and laying one of those every month would suck.
Kaelygon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dinosaurs were pretty big too
vsg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
But their newborns were tiny.
gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yeah but the babies were small, which is what matters here.