• mvirts@lemmy.world
    139·
    11 months ago

    Fysa, humans are born with moveable skull plates to accommodate brain growth and development after birth. You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

    Also brain size correlates weakly with intelligence scores, but is not a major factor.

      • qyron
        71·
        11 months ago

        So… Can we collectively infer from that sentence you were birthed or dropped?

        Giraffes do the last and it works but unless you present your Giraffe Card, I’m going to default count you as human and being dropped head first into the floor is not good for human newborns.

        But if you are indeed a giraffe: how do you type?

    • mutant_zz@lemmy.world
      34·
      11 months ago

      Obsessing over brain size and the hip width of women is a big eugenics / white supremacist thing… the kind of thing the nazis were really into… what a surprise to see Musk spouting this kind of bullshit

    • undeffeined@lemmy.ml
      24·
      11 months ago

      You learn a lot being an active participant in parenting children.

      There’s the issue, like with most of his ventures, Elon outsources all the actual work.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      255·
      11 months ago

      To be clear, Elon is the idiot in that regard here, and the person he’s replying to, not myself. I understand that perfectly well. If you’re providing this info to the bigots on lemmy at large, good on you then.

      And it’s not so much “moveable bones” as it is bones that are still soft and connected by soft fascial sutures called fontanels that harden over time, most likely to make birth easier and to accommodate significant growth for the first stages.

    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      11 months ago

      From my understanding, the ratio of brain size to body size is a much better way of getting a general estimate for intelligence.

  • SomeonePrime@lemmy.world
    41·
    11 months ago

    Wow, at least it’s better than the “people who had c-sections never gave birth so are not mothers” belief. Still a ridiculous belief, though.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      201·
      11 months ago

      … what?

      That’s actually an argument circulating around out there? Just when I thought the debate couldn’t get any lower.

      • SomeonePrime@lemmy.world
        7·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, as per usual it’s hard to tell when people are just trolling or if it’s just completely made up, but I’ve seen it from screenshots of some particularly deranged “moms only” Facebook groups.

        • mateomaui@reddthat.comOPEnglish
          5·
          11 months ago

          All I can do is shake my head at it. Someone carries a child to term, and opts for a manner of birth that was probably safer for their situation, and so the conservative party of family values decides they aren’t technically a mother. That is as dumb and insulting as it can get.

      • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
        31·
        11 months ago

        Yeah this is something that has been circulating right wing women’s groups, conservative mom fora, trad wife fora, trad/conservative family channels on YT, etc.

          • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Yeah, cesarean birth has been around a long time. Our first real records of it being performed successfully to today’s standards, both mother and child survive, came form the 1500s. Since then various different places, and cultures, have had different views on it. This one being on that floated with others.

    • CallumWells@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      11 months ago

      C-section babies can say they were considered important enough to be extracted. (with implications to covert operations)

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      11 months ago

      Not sure if it is actually better. They both seem to be equally horrible and incredibly stupid takes to me.

      • SomeonePrime@lemmy.world
        4·
        11 months ago

        Hehe, perhaps. To me one seems to have more malice in it than the other, but I could just need some time to really warm up to despising Musk’s statement equally.

  • qyron
    26·
    11 months ago

    That was a trainwreck to read. In slow motion.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    Is this him trying to bury this in the search engine results?

    In a new Musk biography by Walter Isaacson, which goes into detail about Musk’s life, his relationships, and his children, Grimes reveals that Musk took a photo of her while she was having a C-section for their baby X Æ A-Xii and circulated it without her consent.

    • mateomaui@reddthat.comOPEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      More likely just him being stupid and bringing it up in search results more due to some Streisand effect. But your theory is also entirely plausible with him.