Along with many other people in the class, I found the reading by Emily Martin very interesting. The concept of women being wasteful with their eggs, while men are not wasteful with their sperm is strange to me. All I kept thinking of was a scene from Legally Blonde. In the scene, the law class is having a discussion and Elle Woods says, "For that matter, any masturbatory emissions, where the sperm is clearly not seeking an egg, could be termed reckless abandonment." It is a funny quote, but does apply well in this context. Men are wasting sperm every time they masturabate, but it isn't wasteful because they can make more sperm? It is almost annoying that science textbooks are so biased in their wording. Based on the image they created of the egg being passive and waiting for sperm to do all the work, it should be considered wasteful then for men to release sperm when not trying to get a woman pregnant.