{"id":668,"date":"2005-01-25T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T02:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/25\/hon-does-my-left-tit-appear-smaller-to-you\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T18:15:14","slug":"smaller-left-tit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/25\/smaller-left-tit\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon&#8217; does my left tit really look smaller to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Jeremy, at <a href=\"http:\/\/antipixel.com\">Antipixel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipixel.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/15\/fearful_asymmetry.html\">commented on the deceitfully symmetrical appearance of the human body<\/a> after stumbling upon the frightening realization that he was a freak of nature whose eyes <em>and<\/em> ears were both uneven.<\/p>\n<p>His findings on feet sizes are perfectly accurate too: as any shoe store clerk will gladly confirm, it is no secret that practically everyone has got one foot a tad bigger than the other. It took me many years to finally remember how crucial it is that I try <em>both<\/em> shoes before buying, no matter how great the right side fits. My left foot&#8217;s big toe, permanently traumatized by years of dancing in undersized sneakers, is a sore reminder of the dangers of impulsive shopping.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy is too much of a gentleman to allude to another famous occurrence of body asymmetry. One that only members of the feminine gent usually worry about (although they certainly shouldn&#8217;t: I think it&#8217;s awfully cute).<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->My own, ahem, scientifically gathered data on the matter had convinced me until recently that there had to be some sort of correlation between the side of the smaller breast and left\/right-handedness. Which made sense after all: if you are going to use a side more, it could likely either build more muscle mass, or inversely hinder development ever so subtly.<\/p>\n<p>I was very disappointed to find out this isn&#8217;t the accepted official explanation to this day: scientists seem to agree that body asymmetry is caused by prenatal &#8220;stressors&#8221;, such as consumption of tabacco, alcohol, crack or reality-TV. <\/p>\n<p>I remain sceptical. <\/p>\n<p>Not about reality-TV, mind you: reality-TV is most definitely harmful to any kind of semi-intelligent lifeform that get exposed to it. If anything, it&#8217;s been clearly proven to cause your left hemisphere to shrivel to microscopic levels while the right side slowly bleeds to death.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps of more concern to Jeremy and myself, is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/entrez\/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&#038;db=pubmed&#038;dopt=Abstract&#038;list_uids=9470212\">recent psychological studies<\/a> point to a significant correlation between fluctuating asymmetry of the body and aggressive behaviours among male patients.<\/p>\n<p>A team of searchers would have already been dispatched in the Japanese peninsula with mission to collect size samples of Godzilla footprints so as to validate this theory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, Jeremy, at <a href=\"http:\/\/antipixel.com\">Antipixel<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.antipixel.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/01\/15\/fearful_asymmetry.html\">commented on the deceitfully symmetrical appearance of the human body<\/a> after stumbling upon the frightening realization that he was a freak of nature whose eyes <em>and<\/em> ears were both uneven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insignificant-details"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}