Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-38015773-20191019185730/@comment-44123106-20191207220133

Spockmum wrote: Portia Chwiliydd wrote: That's not as daft as it sounds...chemical changes, body temperature changes. The temperature one would make a difference to mayonnaise Do you mix it with your hands LOL ? No 😋, but I would hold the bowl against my body to beat the mixture - I'm guessing the book was written before electic whisks/mixers.😀

I wonder what the actually basis for his comment was - old wives' tales or something else.🤔

I can't remember the name of the story, but there's a scifi story about a world where women rule and men are kept in an inferior position because their natural chemical cycles are measured in minutes/hours and therefore they are more unstable, whereas the women's longer and more predictable cycles makes them better suited to running everything. Then the men have a revolution. It's interesting to see the sexism the same but different.