stackyFACTSHistory has famously blamed women for not providing male heirs, which is scientifically backwards. Because females only carry X chromosomes, the genetic sex of the offspring is entirely determined by whether the father provides an X or a Y chromosome. The patriarchs were yelling at the wrong people all along.
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