As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

Many people regard bare female breasts to be erotic, and they can elicit heightened sexual desires in some men in some cultures.

Both male and female fleas hematophagy | feed on blood and can transmit the infection.

A female lays 8, 000 – 25, 000 eggs at once and the strings can stretch up to in length.

Although often appearing in stories as male, Coyote can be female, hermaphrodite, or gender changing, in traditional Aboriginal stories.

Within a week, the young can eat grass, but will continue to suckle — from any female in the group — until weaned at about 16 weeks.

A male and female can form consortship and mate outside their community.

Some adjectives borrowed from other languages are, or can be, declined for gender, at least in writing: blond ( male ) and blonde ( female ) or a bonie lad as compared to a bonnie lass.

Note that a dominatrix does not necessarily dominate a male partner ; a dominatrix may well have female submissives, nor must the role of a dominatrix involve pain toward the submissive ; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks and servitude.

In it, the female narrator can be found wielding a pen and scribbling her diary entries under the most dramatic and unlikely of circumstances.

" Milk stealers " that suckle from unrelated, sleeping females are not uncommon ; this often results in the death of the mother's pup, since a single female can only feed one pup.

This third perspective allows the male audience to take the female character as his own personal sex object because he can relate himself, through looking, to the male character in the film.

In addressing the heterosexual female spectator, she revised her stance to argue that women can take two possible roles in relation to film: a masochistic identification with the female object of desire that is ultimately self-defeating or a transsexual identification with men as the active viewers of the text.

The genre also deals with male / female categories, showing how female roles can differ from feminine roles.

Three DNA types are of particular interest: mitochondrial DNA that we all possess and that is passed down with only minor mutations through the matrilineal ( direct female ) line ; the Y-chromosome, present only in males, which is passed down with only minor mutations through the patrilineal ( direct male ) line ; and the Autosomal DNA, which is found in the 22 non-gender specific chromosomes ( autosomes ) inherited from both parents, which can uncover relatives from any branch of the family.

In humans, an ovum can carry only an X chromosome ( of the X and Y chromosomes ), whereas a sperm may carry either an X or a Y ; thus the male sperm determines the sex of any resulting zygote, if the zygote has two X chromosomes it will develop into a female, if it has an X and a Y chromosome, it will develop into a male.

In Tibetan Buddhism, the highest achievement any person can achieve is to become like the " great " female Buddhas ( e. g. Arya Tara ) who are depicted as being supreme protectors, fearless and filled with compassion for all beings.

This can be compared to Pausanias ' report that in the Ionaian city of Colophon in Asia Minor a sacrifice of a black female puppy was made to Hecate as " the wayside goddess ", and Plutarch's observation that in Boeotia dogs were killed in purificatory rites.

In some cases, male hamsters can die after being attacked by the female.

If captive female hamsters are left for extended periods ( three weeks or more ) with their litter, they may cannibalize the litter, so the litter must be removed by the time the young can feed and drink independently.

Rarely, large killer whale pods can overwhelm even adult female sperm whales.

Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra ) describes Avalokiteśvara as a bodhisattva who can take the form of any type of male or female, adult or child, human or non-human being, in order to teach the Dharma to sentient beings.

A healthy female koala can produce one young each year for about 12 years.

Judges is remarkable for the number of female characters who " play significant roles, active and passive, in the narratives.

The game was historic as not only the first time in chess history a female player beat the world's No. 1 player in competitive play, it was the first time in any sport that the No. 1 ranked male player has lost to the No. 1 ranked female player.

However, every game since then has stated her as being a female, the reasoning behind this is likely that the ending of the game revealed that Mario had been dreaming, therefore the game doesn't necessarily play into other elements of the series.

Due to the show's strong themes of female empowerment, the most powerful members of the team are often female ( Buffy and Willow ), while the men play passive roles such as that of father-figure ( Giles ) and supportive best friend ( Xander ).

Theatre licenses granted by Charles were the first in England to permit women to play female roles on stage ( they were previously played by boys ), and Restoration literature celebrated or reacted to the restored court, which included libertines like John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester.

For example, Ursula, a female robot, sings, play music, dances, and speaks to her audiences at Universal Studios.

However it has proved that teen models whether male or female play an important roles also in fashion industries like Akash Soukhee who is only sixteen and a half has been one of the male supermodels in Mauritius.

" The play seems to be a harshly misogynistic celebration of patriarchy and female submission, and as such, it has generated heated debates about its true meaning.

For example, Joel Fineman suggests that the play draws a distinction between male and female language, and further subcategorises the latter into good and bad, epitomised by Bianca and Katherina respectively.

In productions of the play, it is often a director's interpretation of Katherina's final speech that defines the tone of the entire production, such is the importance of this speech and what it says, or implies, about female submission.

Some critics believe that as the speech and play were written by a man, performed by men, and viewed by a predominantly male audience, what is represented in the speech is the patriarchal ideal of female compliance.

Antoon's 1990 production at the New York Shakespeare Festival, starring Morgan Freeman and Tracey Ullman, which was set in the old west ; Bill Alexander's 1992 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Anton Lesser and Amanda Harris, in which the Induction was rewritten in modern language, and the play-within-the-play featured actors carrying scripts and continually forgetting lines ; Delia Taylor's 1999 production at the Clark Street Playhouse, which featured an all female cast, with Diane Manning as Petruchio and Elizabeth Perotti as Katherina ; Phyllida Lloyd's 2003 production at the Globe, again with an all female cast, starring Janet McTeer as Petruchio and Kathryn Hunter as Katherina ; Gregory Doran's 2003 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, where the play was presented with Fletcher's The Tamer Tamed as a two-part piece, with Jasper Britton and Alexandra Gilbreath ( playing both Katherina in The Shrew and Maria ( Petruchio's second wife ) in The Tamer Tamed ); Edward Hall's 2006 Propeller Company production at the Courtyard Theatre as part of the RSC's presentation of the Complete Works, featuring an all-male cast, with Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Petruchio and Simon Scardifield as Katherina ; and Conall Morrison's 2008 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Stephen Boxer and Michelle Gomez.

Many consider the role of Cleopatra in this play one of the most complex female roles in Shakespeare's work.

The straightforwardness of the binary between male Rome and female Egypt has been challenged in later 20th century criticism of the play: “ In the wake of feminist, poststructuralist, and cultural-materialist critiques of gender essentialism, most modern Shakespeare scholars are inclined to be far more skeptical about claims that Shakespeare possessed a unique insight into a timeless ‘ femininity .’”.

Antony and Cleopatra is essentially a male dominated play in which the character of Cleopatra takes significance as one of few female figures and definitely the only strong female character.

The male-male relationship, some critics have offered, between the male audience and the boy actor performing the female sexuality of the play would have been less threatening than had the part been played by a woman.

He has traveled throughout Asia and other foreign lands, gathering a cult of female worshipers ( Bacchantes ), and at the start of the play has returned to take revenge on the house of Cadmus, disguised as a stranger.

It is common for young female indri's, occasionally adult females, to silently play wrestle anywhere from a few seconds up to 15 minutes.

Contraltos sometimes are assigned feminine roles like Angelina in La Cenerentola, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, and Olga in Eugene Onegin, but more frequently they play female villains or assume trouser roles originally written for castrati.

In response to a sarcastic interjection about " starving permanent secretaries ", Sir Humphrey patronises her as " dear lady " ( as he did " that Wainwright female " in the TV series ).< ref >< Jay & Lynn ( 2010 ) Yes, Prime Minister, especially pages 14, 32 and 81-3 .</ ref > Emily Joyce, who played Claire both at Chichester and in London, was forty-one when the play opened.

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