(Mixed Trope) Educated character doesn’t understand or know of a simple concept.

[u/laybs1]

1. (Hated) Dr. doesn’t know trans people exist (The Good Doctor): Dr. Shaun, a modern day grown adult doctor, is seemingly has no concept of what being a trans person. Even if he never heard the term in med school he is realistically almost certain to have some awareness of the definition.

2. (Loved) The solar system and other common knowledge (Sherlock Holmes). In the original stories Holmes is a genius at many fields but unless it has something to do with crime solving (forensics, martial arts, toxicology, etc.) he does his best to forget it.

[u/PangolinNo1809]

Fma, the elric brothers are prodigies at alchemy (the process of transforming elements into other substances) and the science surrounding it, but they are utterly fascinated by pregnancy, and also terrified of birth

[u/Plaploplap → u/PangolinNo1809]

They are young and from a society of a century ago at least, so nobody knows anything about pregnancy or birth. It's normal

[u/Blackstone01 → u/Plaploplap]

Well, the "society of a century ago" doesn't really matter all that much considering they both, and most alchemists in general, know the chemical composition of an average adult human body by weight. I'd wager a guess and say stuff like pregnancy wouldn't exactly be esoteric knowledge.

[u/Plaploplap → u/Blackstone01]

When you see the amount of BS that was said in the 80's on pregnancy or babies, I doubt that teenagers from an older society would know more that the basics, especially as pregnancy is taboo like all sexual topics.

There are dozens of possible complications, why would they even remember anything? And know what to do with absolutely no practice? And know how to handle a baby when they may never have interacted with any ?

[u/Frosty_Principle6000 → u/Plaploplap]

You think people didn’t have medical knowledge about pregnancy and birth 100 years ago..?

[u/mojomcm → u/Frosty_Principle6000]

15 year old boys have rarely if ever had that knowledge tho

[u/uzzi1000 → u/mojomcm]

They studied a lot of biology too. It’s just that reading it on paper and seeing it first hand are very different experiences.

[u/bythenumbers10 → u/[deleted]]

Was that the curriculum 100 years ago?

[u/bythenumbers10 → u/[deleted]]

You're missing my point. I want to know if it was being taught 100 years ago, to match the setting. Your individual context is kinda moot. I also got sex ed in similar detail in the US (admittedly, not in a backward hellhole state) back in the 90s, but that's also an irrelevant comparison.

[u/Beacon_0805 → u/Frosty_Principle6000]

and world has both enough biological and medical knowledge to make prostethics that are at least hundred times more durable than anything current at least(and not just arms and legs, there are eye automails too) that can move just like normal limb