BY REQUEST: WHAT IF SOMEBODY WANTED TO READ "WHAT IF?"

[peur_evol.insanejournal.com]

Somebody requested more WHAT IF? stories a while ago.
Can't say this is one of the best ones, but it is a WHAT IF? story.
ENJOY
or not

okay no jokes about GIANT-SIZE WOMAN THING, let's try to be adults.....

Comments

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Some comics artists have problems drawing girls. Possibly unfamiliarity; what has estrogen burns at Marvel artist's touch.

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

Most of them have as much trouble drawing men, cars, dogs, trees, chairs, birds....

[raattgift.insanejournal.com]

Interestingly, all the living things of any sex in that list produce and require estrogen and estrogen analogues, and if the chairs are wooden and well sealed, it may still have small traces of phytoestrogens in it (being mainly dead tree).

With respect to that list, because of the way the matrix of (flying!) avian bone is laid down, and the necessity of low skeletal mass, estrogens are probably most important to birds of both sexes as a way of controlling osteoclast (cells involved in bone turnover) activity, and if they don't have enough estrogens through a combination of self-production and diet then they develop aggressive osteoporosis and also serious problems with blood chemistry. (http://ps.fass.org/cgi/reprint/83/2/200.pdf is a cool overview, and there is lots more about the way estrogen interacts with the lysozyme genes in bird osteoclasts on the intarrweb).

Cars have negligible estrogen; they also have negligible testosterone.

[dr_hermes.insanejournal.com]

Another reply to the frequent comment that comics artists can't draw women because they've never seen one is that nearly all of them are married. They may choose to draw women in as stylized a way as they draw men or they may simply be untalented. But if you told an artist's wife that he had never seen a real woman, she might blow up. "What the hell do you think I am, missy?"