Key differences between a male and female skeleton.

If it’s a complete skeleton, the opening in the pelvis is the easiest way to tell.

Fist to the pelvis is the way to go. Got it

That baby yeet 😭

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I just noticed the Brest plate on the man. Skeleton is bigger than the woman’s which is quite interesting.

The fact women can literally create a human inside you and push it out another human is crazy. Kind of feels like an premium upgrade package we guys did not get.

Masha Potemkin /  Bone Museum in Brooklyn, New York

That really was interesting

I love how the captions wrote “grass aisle” instead of “gracile”

>In the female skeleton, I have plenty of room

Everyone who has given birth disagrees that it’s ”plenty”.

The video editing sucks, the closed captioning is covering the chin area they’re describing, and also, “grass aisle” for “gracile” jfc

Edit: the video itself is great though and well explained

The daydreaming zoned out skeleton is male

Oh boy this video gonna trigger a whole lot of people who still trying to figure their stuff out. LOL

Wow I’m surprised this wasn’t flagged for hate speech

This great as i’m currently re-watching Bones!!

It’s all the hips, it’s all in the hips

Ooh i have so much to say about this as someone trained in Forensic Anthropology but tldr; a lot of what she said can ID someone’s sex via bones isn’t reliable outside of pelvic bone and one or two features on the skull because of things like DNA, hormonal changes, gender affirming care/cosmetic surgery, and nutrition can skew this data. There’s only like a handful of forensic anthropologists who are actually good enough at bone ID to somewhat accurately parse out these ‘artificial’ changes to correctly ID without guessing.

Example: Jaw shape isn’t reliable because even things like early menopause cause a woman’s body to change and look more ‘masculine’ due to the over abundance of androgen/testosterone vs estrogen. Same with gender affirming care (that doesn’t have to be transition related!!) like getting testosterone treatments or estrogen. Like cis men using testosterone gel. Or people getting cosmetic surgery to change their facial structure. Injuries and malnutrition can also mess with bone development. You can also be born with weird bones because of mutation or bc of genes. There’s so many reasons why most bones would lie to you about a skeleton’s sex.

Couple of things to help ID that typically are not affected by hormonal changes or surgeries:
– Mastoid process. Male: you can hide two fingers behind it, it protrudes pretty far. In female skeletons you can’t.
– Next: Tilt your head down. Run your fingers up from the top of your neck to the middle of the back of your skull. Female: You will not feel a bump. Men: you will feel a bump. There’s a little bone protrusion on males that does not occur in female skeletons. You can try this out on anyone.
– Last: Pelvis! The most bonafide and accurate way to ID someone’s sex. Female: O/U shaped pelvis. You can fit a baby in that bad boy. Men. V shaped. You cannot fit a baby in that. It will never change for any reason. Not even if it’s broken or malnourished.

If you don’t have the pelvis of the skeleton ur like 80% guessing the sex. I’d only believe the person isn’t guessing if and only if they got trained at Ball State’s Body Farm. Or possibly one of the 6 Body Farms in the country. Best one is at Ball State tho bc that’s the OG one and where some of the handful of people who could eyeball it accurately would be.

Edit: What i mean by never change for any reason: you won’t suddenly have a male skeleton getting a dramatic hormonal change that it’ll suddenly fit a baby. Any hormonal changes are incremental but overall will not significantly affect ID. It’s incredibly obvious when you are looking at a pelvis which one is which because the entire structure is very clearly different even if small changes occur in the ancillary parts of the structure like cartilage or openings

I don’t know the difference between those two skeletons, but I do have a hypothesis that she is an absolute banger in the bedroom.

No longer donating my body to science out of fear of getting fisted on reddit

I knew immediately which was which because I already knew the pelvis thing

I need more videos with her in them.

Fisting skeletons, nice!