# Women and meat

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 10, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903 "2006-02-10T19:36:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/1 "2006-02-10T19:36:54Z")

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Is it true that wimmin synchronize their periods when they live in close quarters? Has there been any hypothoses hypothosized about why this phenomenon occurs, if in fact it does?

And how about cooking meat? And eggs too, I guess. Does it affect the nutritional value significantly? How about different cooking methods (roasting vs. boiling, etc).

And is there still no way to destroy prions with any degree of reliability without also destroying the meat?

These questions are not related.

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**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/2 "2006-02-10T19:38:57Z")

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#1 is true. It is believed to be caused by pheromones. I did a couple search and looked what came up first:

[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_306.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_306.html)

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**Author:** ![Electronic\_Chaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Electronic\_Chaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Electronic_Chaos)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/3 "2006-02-10T19:48:25Z")

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Yes, women are made of meat. As are men, and most animals for that matter.

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**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/4 "2006-02-10T19:54:22Z")

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> [@Cecil](#):
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> McClintock tells of seven female lifeguards who started out one summer with widely scattered periods.

I totally read this wrong the first time.

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**Author:** ![AFAIKnow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a6a055/32.png) [@AFAIKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AFAIKnow)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/5 "2006-02-10T19:54:23Z")

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> [@Electronic Chaos](#):
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> Yes, women are made of meat. As are men, and most animals for that matter.

Not all women prefer meat, unless you count fish. :smack:

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/6 "2006-02-10T19:57:05Z")

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> [@Inigo Montoya](#):
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> Is it true that wimmin synchronize their periods when they live in close quarters? Has there been any hypothoses hypothosized about why this phenomenon occurs, if in fact it does?
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> And how about cooking meat? And eggs too, I guess. Does it affect the nutritional value significantly? How about different cooking methods (roasting vs. boiling, etc).
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> And is there still no way to destroy prions with any degree of reliability without also destroying the meat?
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> These questions are not related.

Since you ain’t a Rookie here, you should know better than to ask multiple, unrelated questions in the OP. Don’t do it again.

**samclem**

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2006, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-and-meat/343903/7 "2006-02-10T20:07:10Z")

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And now that I go back and realize that all you wanted to do was have a suggestive title to a post, I’m closing this.

Stay out of GQ unless you have a serious question.

Yip! Yip! Un-Huh!

**samclem** GQ moderator