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    My female professor calls our skeleton a he, my male professor calls it a she.


    My female professor calls our skeleton a he, my male professor calls it a she.

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    1. zerbey on

      I’m willing to bet someone on reddit can tell you the gender. My med student cousin informed me ours was a girl.

    6. gyroqx on

      It’s a “she”

      Her pelvic bones are wider, large pelvic opening adapted for birth, and finally wide symphysis pubis angle.

    8. Jetztinberlin on

      Pelvic outlet looks male, and I’ll just say as a sometimes anatomy teacher, male physio skeletons are both much more common and cheaper than female. Male anatomy is still usually the teaching default, unfair as that may be to half the world’s population.

    10. everytingalldatime on

      As a female, I call most things that I can’t tell the gender of easily (like animals and I don’t have skeletal knowledge to tell the pelvic differences), I’d call it a he too, likely. Just something I’ve noticed about myself.

    12. LEANiscrack on

      Really what it tells us all is that just looking at a skeleton isnt as straight forward for determining gender as some might think.
      Now overall we can assume its most likely male as those are by far more abundant.

    13. Big-black-banana-man on

      It’s likely a female btw because of the combination of a wide, gynecoid pelvis and a skull with gracile (less robust) features maybe idk

    22. SatBurner on

      One of my teachers had an actual skeleton in his classroom. His wife worked in the medical examiners office and loaned it to the school as an educational tool. In one of our classes identifying its gender was a project we did. It was a her as verified in the documentation in her box. She died at like 50 years old, something like 100 years ago.

    25. DinosaurAlive on

      I live by a zoo, have a pass and go frequently. I sometimes hear people of any age and gender talking to each other about the animals. 99% of the time they refer to the animals as “he”. Very rarely does anyone refer to any animal as a “she” and in those rare times it’s always a mom or grandma figure talking to little ones.

    27. K_the_farmer on

      In norwegian, he noun for skeleton, skjelett, is neuter. That is not a grammatical possibility in english. I wonder if some old gendered noun grammar rules still inform us as to what’s a *he* and what’s a *she* when we anthrophomorphise stuff around us. Like that teaching skeleton, or a cantankerous computer or whatever else we in our talk at that moment ensoul.

    29. UselessLezbian on

      I do tend to call things “he” more readily than I assign “she”. In fact, making objects feminine feels more wrong to me somehow? I wonder if it’s a gender thing? I’m not around men enough to pay attention, but I feel like you typically see men call objects “she” more. (Cars, boats, etc.)

      I wonder if it’s because we instinctually assign the opposite gender, because assigning our own gender feels intrinsically wrong to our brains? Like we won’t equate it to ourselves because we’re not on the same level as an inanimate object, but have no issue doing the opposite. 

    36. Sirico on

      Doesn’t have a well defined superorbital ridge so it’s female.
      This has been a high-school archaeology students deduction

    44. suchstigma on

      Eye socket shape also suggest female. Women have more circular sockets and men have more oblong/rectangular.

    49. XClamX on

      Best indication is the lower portion of the back of the skull. Males have a little bump of bone. Yes size of pelvis can also help make an identification but when we were taught in middle school about the bump thing.

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