Comments by "Ginny Jolly" (@ginnyjollykidd) on "Women Have Weird Elbows..." video.

My Dad had very long eyelashes while Mom didn't. I inherited the long eyelashes and I prize them highly. Personally, I think it's genetics with long eyelashes dominant and short lashes recessive. But it might also depend on how many copies of the gene you have. Some phenotypes depend on how many gene copies you have in your chromosomes.
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@aaronfrye3083 The carrying angle of a woman allows her to use it to hold stuff on her hip. Baby and toddler included. Try stacking paperbacks on your supinated arm. How long a stack of such books can you carry? How long a stack can a lady with the same length arm carry? It's not just the muscle that determines if you can carry a lot but how that muscle is positioned. Can you pick up a pickup truck? Why not? But you can pick it up with a jack by exerting the same effort pumping the handle of a jack as you would need to lift the car with your hands. Just a little bit at a time. That's why something like a queen - sized bed mattress is hard to move. It's too big to hold in both hands, and it wobbles. You spend as much energy trying to stabilize it as move it. You have the same problem with a college art portfolio —one of the big and wide portfolios. You can't pick it up by any one side, it's unwieldy. You can't carry it well under your arm; you have troubles keeping it in place by friction. So you carry it with one corner point in your hands. Then you can't see where you are going. It's not the mass of the object but its resistance to being picked up.
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You'll have to study it carefully to be able to say that. In my family, sure, my Dad had long eyelashes, but so did I. It might not be straightforward Mendelian genetics, either. It might be affected by how many copies of this gene allele you have. You might have multiple genes with that one allele which would lead to different eyelash lengths. And the bottom eyelashes are smaller yet.
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Yes we do!
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Every characteristic we have exists because we survived to reproduce. That means everything has a use. Women have wide hips (and a waist). Women have crooked elbows. Imagine a lady with two or a few children. She can put a baby in the crook of her arm easily. I haven't seen many men do that so well (but I haven't studied it). At the same time she can keep a toddler sitting on her hip with the other arm. I think our crooked arms are just perfect for carrying youngsters who can't walk, yet. And doing this can keep us alive if a mother had to run for safety with her children. She can hold up to two youngsters while running. Maybe a third piggyback if the three year old can hold on tight. And it might be why —allowed to plan a family her way—a mother on the average would have 2 or 3 kids.
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You mean like in Bugs Bunny cartoons directed by Chuck Jones? (I think Friz Frehling did that kind of art)
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Good explanation on an aspect of elbows I didn't know! Now here's something I learned from Medieval re - creators in SCA: An advanced archer told me and showed me men and women are different in their forearms: Men's forearms are straight when —like you said—you look at them for holding a bow. Women's are angled in that position and their elbow gets in the way of the string and arrow. But women can twist their elbow out of the way of the string and arrow! That blew my mind when I did it! (and my werble was reduced) Does it have something to do with this exercise for flexibility, too?: Take an arrow (I can do it with a plastic hanger) and hold it at the ends with your fingers and put it behind your head and as far down your back as you can. I was able to put it behind my head, behind my shoulders, and, with a little work, behind my back and behind my behind. 😊 He was only able to put it behind his shoulders. Maybe carrying angle is involved there, too? Another example came from my grandmother when she worked at a distillery. Many women worked there alongside men. One thing she said was the women could carry on their arms more flasks than the men could because of women's crooked arms. I'm assuming that she meant on her supinated arms because that's how she gestured. After all, Bourbon flasks nest into each other, making them easier to carry together. In fact, I've done that kind of thing lining up paperbacks on my arm to carry them (and some books not so light! It worked like a charm!
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