And yet...

Following a link to an image joke about the next actor to star in Doctor Who, one of the comments I saw provoked some thought. "not real or .... this little boy? oh my God !! and the 13th doc is a sperm or what??" It still seems as if people believe on a casual level that sexual reproduction occurs when a man deposits a new life into a woman's incubating chamber, that she is merely a passive nurturer of the child. It seems a lot of the time when people envision an age regression into absurdity they place the soul of the person in question in the sperm rather than the egg, or concede directly that there's no person for a location to be attributed to.