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[–]NastyWetSmear 8 insightful - 4 fun8 insightful - 3 fun9 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

A smidge. There were/are chemicals in the water that cause the frogs to change sex, as it's one of their biological safety nets where the male frogs can become females and carry eggs if there are no females around. However, if the frogs literally transform into females, I don't think that makes them gay.

Does raise a bunch of other questions, though:

Can animals with such low intelligence who are almost totally controlled by pure instinct ever be said to have a sexual preference? Seals sometimes fuck penguins, and penguins will happily pound the shit out of dead penguins... Are they penguiniosexuals and necrophilies, or are they just so stupid that they are unable to really tell what to bone and just mount anything that partially resembles something they can screw? Even if a seal only had sex with penguins, are we able to say that this gives the seal a sexual preference, like a homosexual, or is it more that the seal found it can satisfy its mating urge with penguins and they weren't able to stop him, making it easier to hump a flightless bird than to impress a female seal and fight off the other males? It might be less a preference and more a simple case of finding an easier solution without understanding what it entails.

Same with a frog turning into a female frog. It happens because of instinct and chemical reaction. Is it likely that the frog is sitting there just craving frog sperm and the process of releasing eggs so much that it can't help but transform to live it's "Real life"? Or is it staring blankly, thinking about basically nothing at all, reacting only to outside stimuli when suddenly the levels of X in the water cause it to react by becoming female and it has no greater thought or understanding about the process? It simply is and doesn't really know any better, nor does the male frog consider the fact that this frog before it used to be male and has transformed due to a biological process. It just knows it's time to release sperm and this female frog is croaking the right croak.

... There are, in fact, toads that croak a mating call specifically to help other male toads know not to mount'em like a $2 whore, because those toads will pour their baby gravy over pretty much anything that sits still in mating season. It might be a bit generous to call them "Pansexual", as that kind of suggests they have any kind of ability to understand what they are bukkake'ing, as opposed to the much more likely scenario in which they are just on a hair-dick trigger for evolutionary purposes and will jizz on a stick of butter if it's left out of the fridge, rather than being attracted to everything they see.

So, what I'm saying is, the real question becomes: Why haven't I seen any frogs at any Pride events?? When will the oppression of frogs end? Allow frog marriage now!!

[–]Mcheetah 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Due to their degeneracy, the toads have called for the frog genocide. To bring back pride to Amphibisrael.

Also, FUCK Penguinz0! Manlet-ass bitch.

[–]NastyWetSmear 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He gets fucked by a seal one time and you never let it go!

[–]Musky 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think this just gets funnier and funnier.

The chemical is called Atrazine, it's one of the most widely used herbicides in the US and it's a potent endocrine disruptor.

You're not wrong, this shit is nasty. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine

[–]ID10T 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hilarious soundbite from Alex Jones, but it’s a real problem. One of my favorite videos is a deep dive into the actual “gay frogs”.

https://youtu.be/i5uSbp0YDhc

[–]passionflounder 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Maybe they're tranny-frogs.

[–]hfxB0oyA 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

They're what the trannies wish they could be.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I think that's actually pretty accurate.

[–]LarrySwinger2 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

[–]Mcheetah 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Are you imitating that Sneako guy?

But no, you're not wrong. Where's the lie?

[–]makesyoudownvote 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There was this movie you may have heard of called Jurassic park.

If you remember the plot of it at all, they resurrected Dinosaurs using DNA they had found in mosquitos locked in amber. But some of the DNA was missing so they replaced it with frog DNA.

This was one of the principal mistakes they made, because while they had made all of the dinosaurs female to prevent them from breeding, some frogs, unlike humans are actually capable of changing their sex in order to fill a gap in local populations. So if you had all female frogs some frogs become male in order for the local population to reproduce.

I would say this isn't like humans who are trans because these frogs are actually capable of changing their biological sex. It is not just a cosmetic surgery and hormones.

And yes some chemicals appear to be changing the sex of these frogs. It also seems to make it difficult for frogs to determine what sex other frogs are.

So while saying it turned the frogs gay may not be accurate, it does turn them into gender confused frogs.

[–]SoCo 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Frogs don't have cocks. The have a cloaca, a one-stop vent (or hole if you will), for everything, liquid/solid waste, sperm, and eggs.

So, while they are sperm producing, they are considered male, and while they are egg producing, they are considered female....but end the end, they are both "smooth" and just expelling various genetic material out of their poop flap.