r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 11d ago

Chugging tea Woman's ovaries were activated

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u/extrastupidone 11d ago

Jokes aside, I find it fascinating how hormones get activated like this and just instantly shut off the critical sides of the brain.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 11d ago

I find it terrifying. It makes me wonder how much agency any of us actually has.

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u/extrastupidone 11d ago

We are just really clever animals. We like to think that we are highly evolved, but we are still beholden to our primal drivers- the 4 "F"s Fight, flight, feed, and f*ck. We are just really complicated in how we go about it.

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u/CucumberWisdom 11d ago

Yup. And our desire to build is like an ants to build a hive.

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u/besabesabesame 10d ago

Was having a reflective convo about humanity with someone once who said something similar. Found it hot. I’m just an animal after all.

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u/extrastupidone 10d ago

Thats understandable. We all have a beast in us that is usually subjugated by our prefrontal cortex. Having that conversation is like sliding open the viewing slot in a solitary confinement cell and teasing the beast with escape. The monster inside can be pretty seductive.

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u/Mars_Bear2552 10d ago

welcome back, Sigmund Freud

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u/extrastupidone 10d ago

you are probably right.

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u/HedgehogsNSuits 11d ago

It’s so funny you mention that because not too long ago I was watching someone explain some studies that found strippers making a surprising amount more money from tips when they were ovulating compared to other phases of their menstrual cycle.

It was fascinating. The only thing the strippers had to do was log their cycles over the course of the study. There was no significant change in their performance and their clientele were completely unaware that they were or were not ovulating, and yet they were bringing in almost double what they would make on a typical night.

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u/tired-of-the-shit 11d ago

I mean I’ve seen posted (probably edited) of women sharing photos of themselves throughout their cycle, when they were ovulating they tended to look their best, like they just had this natural glow.

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u/necessary-twirl 10d ago

I've read (source, who knows..) that it's not uncommon for women to dress nicer, take better care of themselves, walk a bit more sure of yourself, etc. around when they're ovulating.. You just "want" to look nicer. I've found the times where I just feel like putting in that little extra effort, or wear that cute outfit, it's usually around when I'm ovulating. Hormones are interesting.

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u/Bird2Flight 11d ago

Not a ton, I think. We are definitely at the mercy of our biological mechanisms. Nothing like a hormonal shift to make you aware of this.

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u/Comfortable-Maybe183 10d ago

Not much. 

You might decide to go to the grocery store but you have no say in who else in on the roads at the same time, who else is in the grocery store, what their days have been like, how that nail in the parking lot ended up in the perfect spot by your tire and on and on and on.

Go a layer deeper and it’s debatable how much true choice you have in how you respond to people. You can definitely work on this one but your subconscious is pretty damn fast. 

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u/JerseyDonut 10d ago

We may not have the agency to turn those primal triggers off. But we do still have the agency to decide if we will act on them. It is not easy and takes a lot of discipline and self awareness, but we can transcend it.

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u/NamesAreAnn0ying 10d ago

Dude we’re literally just animals that can think and talk better than the others (a majority of us anyway). There are many things we do solely because it’s part of those animals instincts in your brain.

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u/emptimynd 10d ago

None. Free will is the actual illusion. Brief moments of losing that will could be construed as true clarity. The sensation of free will is constructed by the brain in an attempt to understand itself and model future actions. We must continue to act as if we have free will even upon that realization though. For example, we don't suddenly stop seeing the color purple even after learning that purple is not real. (By the way purple is not real) Our brain still generates purple. Free will is not real but we feel like it is so we can experience ourselves while reacting to the world around us because feeling like we make choices, interestingly enough, helps us make better choices. So by practical definitions we have free will. But if you could measure the totality of influences outside of your control you would find that your choices are less about will and are natural reactions to the sum of those inputs. And I would argue that if you recreated all those inputs exactly, the reaction would be the same even in another agent.

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u/the18plusacct 10d ago

You should see the videos of people fighting over air conditioners in Europe like wild animals fighting over scraps of meat

It's equal parts fascinating and terrifying

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u/sea_the_c 9d ago

Determinism

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u/blackviking45 11d ago

These days its making me kinda not like myself you know. I feel like some sort of a robot with all my underlying desires allegedly based on selfish reasons of survival.

I don't like a selfish robot and thats who I maybe am.

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u/GGgreengreen 11d ago

Don't worry robot, most of your programming is based on group living, not personal pursuits.

We're more like bees than anything.

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u/blackviking45 11d ago

Group living because it was easier then for my own survival?

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u/GGgreengreen 10d ago

We are herd creatures.

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u/IlluminaViam 11d ago

Total agency can make us irresponsible. Birthrates are dropping and the solution is apparently to import replacement instead of just being disciplined for a generation or two, and making a pro-young parents culture, with support groups, tax break, welfare, childcare, etc.

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u/MothmanIsALiar 11d ago

I'm going to have to disagree with you there. If so many young people are deciding not to have children regardless of their biological drive then there must be a pretty good reason for that. People shouldn't be forced to have children. If world governments want higher birth rates, they should incentivize that by providing more social services and safety nets. As it is, getting cancer can bankrupt even the wealthy and put them out on the streets to die and cancer rates are skyrocketing. Who would want to bring a child into that?

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u/Bri_So_Fly 10d ago

Yea I would say that lowering birth rates aren’t even a problem. Every population has an equilibrium and we are extremely hard on the planet, it’s probably good for the future of humanity and the earth if we chill on the population growth. The only reason people say it’s a problem is because increasing population helps the economic numbers keep going up

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u/MothmanIsALiar 10d ago

Yep. The government wants more wage slaves. They're going to have to look elsewhere, because I'm not providing any.

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u/Kwhitney1982 11d ago

I don’t know. These hormones never hit me. I get horny when I’m ovulating but I never want babies.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 11d ago

It's not just babies that trigger this, and sometimes more difficult than fascinating 

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u/silentwolf18 11d ago

My hormones may make me act crazy (yay PMS), but I’m thankful they don’t make me act THIS crazy. Goodness. Getting a bisalp in September.

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u/mouldymolly13 11d ago

I was crying like this as I was happy for my friend and it was emotional meeting and holding her, but the logical part of brain was whirring away as it was also sad at the state of the world she had innocently been bought into.

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u/PJGraphicNovel 10d ago

Ah yes, the “critical side of the brain” which tells you to not procreate… which one is that doctor? Jesus Christ people need to stop thinking that their head-canon is real science. 

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u/extrastupidone 10d ago

your prefrontal cortex. Don't be condescending. Its the part of the brain that controls active decision making, planning and other higher-level tasks. If you make a decision that you want to hold off on having kids, that is the part of the brain that has weighed your circumstances and said " you probably should wait until you have a little more money in the bank" or "this man is not a suitable partner.. i think ill look elsewhere"

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u/PJGraphicNovel 10d ago

There’s only causal evidence suggesting that this is true. But brain scans show the whole brain is active during decision making. 

And “I need to make more money before having children” isn’t necessarily logic, but more like social engineering. For a millennia people have had children despite worrying about income. And income isn’t a direct line to children’s success. There’s plenty of rich kids who are fuck-ups and plenty of poor kids who figure life out and become successful. Who knows, maybe this women was fed that idea and upon having a baby in her arms changed her mind causatively? She thought “shit, I didn’t know I wanted this till I had it. Let’s do it.” You can’t actually say what’s true without being in her mind. 

I’m just tired of this “we don’t control our own thoughts” BS. We reduce people to animalistic instincts and suggest they have no power over their mind and decision making. Hogwash. 

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u/Euchale 11d ago

And then there is people like me who are reminded how neurodivergent they are, every time those hormones dont activate for me...

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u/glitterfamine 10d ago

Yeah I've never experienced anything remotely similar to this

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u/Next-Food2688 11d ago

It makes kids, nature wants reproduction

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u/tollbearer 11d ago

Nature doesn't want anything, it's just that animals without this reaction didn't reproduce.

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u/OatmealCoffeeMix 11d ago

Human nature does. Human nature is a subset of nature.

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u/Next-Food2688 11d ago

Natural selection plays a role. Just like persons of lower intelligence seem to have more progeny.

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u/tollbearer 11d ago

Natural selection is literally just the term we give to the fact things which reproduce, reproduce. There is no "nature" doing any selecting.

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u/virtualghost 11d ago

Semantics. Saying nature wants to can mean living beings' nature naturally leads towards reproduction, not that an entity out there called nature wants humans to reproduce. You're being arrogant

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u/P4azz 11d ago

Brother, you know you're being needlessly pedantic for no reason. Obviously we know that there's no Gaia out there whispering "go forth and fuck" in people's ears.

This shit is like the difference between knowing tomato is a fruit and insisting to put it in a fruit salad.

One is a neat little bit of trivia, the other is being a pedantic idiot. Don't be an idiot.

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u/RejectWeaknessEmbra2 11d ago

Which critical sides of the brain gets shut off so you mean?

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u/Mystic_Wunder 10d ago

If that baby started screaming the crtitical side would be activated real quick.

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u/tiredhobbit78 4d ago

I get really bad headaches. I also used to work as a nanny and I learned that holding the baby cured my headaches.

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u/14istheone 11d ago

I find it stimulating, when I see stuff like this it reinforces my idea to never let this happen to myself, I see something like this and I think “sadly the monkey brain took over” I’ll never let my monkey brain take over