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Super Dad

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The way some folks react to being cautioned against anthropomorphising animal behaviour, I think there’s often a misunderstanding about precisely what sort of anthropomorphism we’re talking about.

Yes, it’s true that at one time, pure behaviourism – i.e., the notion that non-human animals are basically meat robots executing simple stimulus-response programs and have no subjective experience of reality – was the norm in animal behaviour studies, and any suggestion that non-human animals have an internal life would have been dismissed as anthropomorphism.

However, in this context, “at one time” basically means “the 1970s”; if you’re operating on the assumption that pure behaviourism is still the dominant paradigm in the study of animal behaviour, your understanding of the field is literally half a century out of date, and that’s typically not what’s meant when folks talk about anthropomorphism.

Rather, when folks say you shouldn’t anthropomorphise non-human animals, they’re not talking about assuming that animals are experiencing any motivation at all for the things that they do: they’re talking about assuming that animals are experiencing exactly the same motivation that a human would under comparable circumstances. The fact that a human and a non-human animal do the same thing in response to the same circumstance doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re doing it for the same reason, and failing to check your assumption they are can lead to some pretty serious problems.

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On the 50th Anniversary of Scooby-Doo let us celebrate the musical group of goddesses known as the Hex Girls (x)

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The Joker’s violent attention-comedy bullshit would 100% just not work if his main opponent was John Constantine. Both because John is funnier than he is and just does NOT care. Joker would be bouncing around like “look at me, I’m so EEEEVILLLL” and John’s just bored because this isn’t even in the top ten evil things he’s seen this morning

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They started doing it in the USA too. Look up what residential schools you are near that have already been investigated. Mine had 21 children and it is 45 minutes away from me. Please please please learn how you can help these hurting communities near you.

Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

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“trans men don’t experience misogyny because they’re men thus cannot experience women’s oppression”

I hate to tell you this but even cis men experience misogyny if they step a toe over the line of what our incredibly sexist society sees as “proper” for a man. You really don’t think that a man with interests or expression the world sees as “female” aren’t treated with violence?

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As much as I need to accept and be okay with that mspec in common terms is coming to mean multiple gender attraction spectrum... I really really don't like it. It is like another long damn acronym that feels like it lacks genuine unity. Monosexual vs multisexual/plurisexual/plurian makes sense because they are both one word but monosexual vs multiple gender attraction spectrum is such a god damn mouthful and hard for me damnit. I miss being able to have an actual umbrella term rather than a mouthful string of words that is not self explanatory

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Y’all know that like…. being fat isn’t bad right

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Lets go bitches

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men be like women don't have a sense of humour they don't laugh when I make them uncomfortable