There's another reason that talking to your doctor about your health and gross stuff is really, really important.
與醫生談論健康和惡心的東西有很重要的另外一個原因。
Doctors and the scientific community can only address issues when they know there's something to address.
醫生和科研人員只有了解哪里出了問題,才能有針對性地解決這些問題。
So one of the really interesting things I learned while making the video on periods,
當制作關于月經的視頻時,我所了解的一件非常有趣的事是:
is that I was talking to this one scientist who told me there's actually still a lot we don't know about periods.
曾經有一名科學家告訴我,我們關于月經的認知實際上還很有限。
There's a lot of basic research that still hasn't been done.
許多基礎研究尚未完成。
In part, that's just because there weren't a lot of scientists in the field who were women, to ask questions about it.
部分原因是,很多該領域的科學家,尤其是女性,并未對月經表達出任何疑問。
And it's also not a topic that women talk about publicly.
這也不是女性們會公開討論的話題。
So there's this gap in what we know, just because no one was there to ask a question.
我們在認知上的缺陷,正是因為沒人提出問題。
There's one final reason that I think talking about gross stuff is so important,
我認為談論惡心的東西很重要,還有最后一層原因:
and that's because you just never know what you're going to find when you peel back all those layers of disgustingness.
當剝開惡心的外皮時,你們并不知道會有什么樣的發現。
So, take the California brown sea hare.
例如加州的棕色海兔。
This is a sea slug that squirts this lovely, bright purple ink at any creature that tries to eat it.
這是一種向捕食者噴射這種可愛、明亮的紫色墨水的海蛞蝓。
But it also happens to be one of the kinkiest creatures in the animal kingdom.
它同時也適用于動物界中最扭曲的生物。
So these guys are hermaphrodites, which means they have both male and female genitalia.
它們就是兩性生物,意味著它們兼具雌雄生殖器官。
And when it's time to mate, up to 20 individuals will all get together in this kind of, like, conga line and they'll all mate together.
當到了交配的時期,像(古巴的)康加舞一樣,20多個個體會聚集一堂,互相交配。