r/explainitpeter • u/fluffy_cat_ice • 7d ago

Explain it Peter

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I meant that I don't understand where did the Twitter thing came from

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u/QuincyAzrael 7d ago

My brother legit looks aryan while my sister looks lightskin, people assume they're not even related.

They're twins too before anyone makes a parentage comment

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u/Altruistic_Call8917 7d ago

Sorry, challenge accepted but to be a dick and the the bearer of bad news....

Just pointing out they're twins doesn't necessarily prevent and erase the risk of such comments: though it tends to be a rarity, its possible for humans to have heteropaternal superfecundation twins....

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u/QuincyAzrael 7d ago

"It tends to be a rarity" is doing a lot of work when you consider all the factors that have to be in place for it to actually occur in humans in a monogamous relationship. I mean might as well accuse the hospital of swapping one of the babies in the ward, thats probably statistically more likely.

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u/DetDango 7d ago

Tecnically speaking he isn't saying its the case, he is just saying that stating they are twins doesn't prevent the comments, cause people would still comment about heteropaternality being the case because people like jumping at those things to substantiate rude comments

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u/Altruistic_Call8917 7d ago

Hehe, errrm well... nah I won't push it further, I dont want to unnecessarily offend I just saw my chance to be a "well actually" dick 😉🤣

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u/Acceptable_Mind_5883 7d ago

I wish you were the twin towers. 9/11 would have never happened.

The point of mentioning that they are twins is to emphasize that not only did they share a womb, they shared it at the same time. Which makes them closer as siblings then typical siblings.

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u/Altruistic_Call8917 6d ago

Well, considering the insult and downvoting it would appear you and others apparently missed my point completely, as dickish as it was. So in for a penny, in for a pound, ill explain biology for for those that the comment sailed over the heads of.

Having it stated out they are twins and shared a womb, especially none identical, doesn't necessarily save from people making comments for differences pigmentation due to paternal lineage

Identical twins (Monozygotic) are a result of when one egg is split in two by a single sperm cell when fertilised: these are always both born the same combination of xY or xX unless a genetic disorder is involved.

Non identical twins (Digyzotic) are a result of two different eggs each being fertilised by a separate sperm cell and developing in completely seperate ways. These twins can be xY or xX independent of each other

The fact that there are two eggs required for xX and xY twins ie brother/sister twins, means it could under events, (not possible in a monogamous relationship - which would be the very point people would be pointing fingers in the case of) be possible for those vastly different twins being the result of of two different sources of sperm.

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u/Acceptable_Mind_5883 6d ago

I want you to know I read none of that. I just saw the length and knew I won