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[–]BEB[S] 23 insightful - 8 fun23 insightful - 7 fun24 insightful - 8 fun -  (16 children)

Of course, they have to throw seahorses in there. Because mammals and seahorses are interchangeable. In fact, many kangaroos are impregnated by seahorses every year!

This is SCIENTIFIC fucking AMERICAN, not a Marvel comic book - proof that gender ideology is on a mission to destroy science.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (15 children)

Do seahorses do anything odd other than have the female give the father her eggs to carry? That's more like a mom leaving the kids with the father than anything that could possibly ever be used as "evidence" that males are interchangeable with females. Clownfish fit this BS narative more than anything I've ever heard about seahorses

[–]reluctant_commenter 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Off-topic, but I really love marine life and I'm delighted that this discussion has come up in this sub of all places. Lol

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 16 insightful - 3 fun16 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Marine life can be both amazingly beautiful and terrifyingly demonic. Pretty much any large crab belongs either in the deepest pit of hell or served with butter. But reefs do showcase the more beautiful things that the sea has to offer. Unfortunately we're so distracted by pandas not having sex that we're letting entire ecosystems go by the wayside. I hope one day to legitimately build an artificial reef far from human influence to act as a safehaven for these amazing species. We'll just need an arc to collect a bunch of every reef dweller to start it.

[–]reluctant_commenter 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Pretty much any large crab belongs either in the deepest pit of hell or served with butter.

What a hilarious quote, hahaha. I like it.

I totally agree. So much attention given to very specific land animals. That sounds like a super cool idea, about the reef!!

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 9 insightful - 7 fun9 insightful - 6 fun10 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

Since humans can't seem to be trusted with them, I'll make my own reef, without blackjack or hookers so no humans come to screw it up!

[–]davids877Straight Male Man 11 insightful - 7 fun11 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

I just like using the 'seahorse' is to 'horse' as 'transwoman' is to 'woman' analogy. Which is to say there's no analogy there at all.

[–]PenseePansyBio-Sex or Bust 6 insightful - 7 fun6 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 7 fun -  (3 children)

Clownfish fit this BS narative more than anything I've ever heard about seahorses

Well, while these trans-fanatics aren't actual clownfish, they sure have the "clown" part down, anyway...

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

A youtube channel (I think minute earth?) proved that humans are more closely related to fish than sharks, sort of proving that we are "fish" if you define fish in a kinda incorrect way. So, from a certain point of view, they're also fish. Now they just need to find a way to go from clown fish to clownfish so they can finally prove that they're actually a different sex than their "assigned" one

[–]supersmokio6420 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Its based on using cladistic definitions. All tetrapods (mammals, reptiles, ampibians) are members of the Sarcopterygii clade, 'lobe finned fish'.

Lobe finned fish are all members of Ostiechthyes, 'bony fish', a group which includes most types of fish.

Sharks however are members of Chondrichthyes, 'cartilaginous fish'.

Both the bony and cartilaginous fish are members of Gnathostomata, 'jawed vertebrates'.

With a group like mammals, there's a last common ancestor where you can say that everything descended from it is a mammal. But with fish, there's no last common ancestor that would include everything we think of as a 'fish' without also including all tetrapods.

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's all because fish split into bony and cartilaginous subgroups first, then the bony fish had a branch where some of them gained lungs and became every land vertabrate. So since fish was sort of the "default," we have this unusual situation where there is no evolutionary branch that contains every modern fish and nothing else, unless we want to redefine cartilaginous animals

[–]diapason 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

They really think they're actually like Mr. Baldwin from Fish Hooks lol

[–]Three_oneFourWanted for thought crimes in countless ideologies 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

Except they forget that fish don't have live birth in most cases, and the fact that a male carries (pre-fertilized) eggs proves literally nothing other than that fathers are important in a nonzero number of animal species out there.

[–]blahblahgcer 6 insightful - 6 fun6 insightful - 5 fun7 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

Lol, this is probably the first time I've seen confirmation that that show wasn't actually a fever dream

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

It really felt like one TBH hahaha

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

They are super weird fish in other ways, they swim using their back fin which is not the way literally every other type of fish moves.

[–]BEB[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If you have the internal fortitude, read the actual Scientific American article itself (it's linked at the tweet). It goes into all sorts of craziness to make the case that the penis is a social construct, or something. Actually, you'll probably laugh out loud more than once, so it's worth the read.