I Went To OP's Blog Thinking "surely, Surely They Can't Be THAT Stupid, Right?".

I went to OP's blog thinking "surely, surely they can't be THAT stupid, right?".

One of their top posts is blaming a 6 year old child for commiting a sex crime. A 6 year old. For being male. I cannot imagine being that miserable of a person.

“There are reports that, even when the facts about conception and birth were made known to primitive peoples, they refused to accept them as true. Some were inclined to view the information as a defect in the intelligence of the white man. Malinowski relates how the Trobrianders went to great pains to explain to him that sexual intercourse had nothing to do with the birth of a child.

Their attitude to their own children also bears witness to their ignorance of any causal relation between congress and the ensuing pregnancy. A man whose wife has conceived during his absence will cheerfully accept the fact and the child, and he will see no reason at all for suspecting her of adultery. One of my informants told me that after over a year's absence he returned to find a newly born child at home. He volunteered this statement as an illustration and final proof of the truth that sexual intercourse has nothing to do with conception. . . .

My friend Layseta, a great sailor and magician of Sinaketa, spent a long time in his later youth in the Amphlett Islands. On his return he found two children, borne by his wife during his absence. He is very fond of them and of his wife; and when I discussed the matter with others, suggesting that one at least of these children could not be his, my interlocutors did not understand what I meant. (Sexual Life of Savages, pp. 193-94)

Frazer points out that the biological facts of life we take for granted could not have been known to primitive peoples. While the part played by the mother in the birth process is obvious, he wrote, how could people in the prescientific era "perceive that the child which comes forth from the womb is the fruit of the seed which was sowed there nine months before?" (Totemism and Exogamy, vol. IV, pp. 61-62).

Margaret Mead makes the even more important point that to the primitive mind children were not the fruit of a momentary act of sexual congress but of years of patient nurture and care:

The Arapesh have no idea that after the initial act which establishes physiological paternity, the father can go away and return nine months later to find his wife safely delivered of a child. Such a form of parenthood they would consider impossible, and furthermore, repellent. For the child is not the product of a moment's passion, but is made by both father and mother, carefully, over time. (Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies, p. 31)

Mead here puts a finger on the most essential characteristic that made the husband the father of a woman's child, namely, that he now had the right to assist his wife in the care and protection of her child. From this standpoint, a new "male mother" makes his appearance in history—the "husband-mother"—as against the former male mother, the mother's brother. Thus fatherhood as a social institution did not begin on the basis of sexual intercourse between a man and woman but as a set of maternal functions performed by the man for his wife's child.”

-Evelyn Reed, Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family

Something very funny to me about the fact that the catgirl is the one character nobody ships. Truly a top-tier manga, to hold that kind of power.

I'm afraid the call is coming from inside the house

Why are website settings temporary now. Why do I have to constantly go back and tell websites to quit showing me shit. Leave me be

I think a lot of the reason people perceive wasps as "mean" is because of the common perception of wasps as evil. In reality, they're no more aggressive on average then bees.

Personally, I've dealt with plenty of wasps, ranging from yellowjackets to great black digger wasps, and never been stung. A lot of that has to do with A, Broadly knowing what kind of wasp I'm dealing with (great black digger wasps are less likely to sting then yellowjackets if you get close), and B, knowing how wasps perceive the world in a general sense.

Little anecdote, I once had a yellowjacket in front of my back door, trying to build a nest.

While I'm actually fine with yellowjackets having a nest nearby (they're good pest control!), the placement meant the moment it got big enough, opening the door would wreck it, so it had to go.

I never used pesticides, or hurt the wasp. I'd just take a broom and gently shoo her away when she was building, or smack it near her if she was on the wall to scare her off.

Eventually I realized she'd built a small bit of nest, which was why she was coming back, so I broke it off and got rid of it and she never came back.

The reason she never stung me, even though I could have very easily been seen as a threat to her, is because while some wasps can remember faces, the thing that was threatening her was always the broom, and it's hard for a wasp to correlate human with broom since they don't really have a concept of "holding".

Oh my god you cannot just remove a species from an ecosystem and expect things to be fine there are always consequences and ecological webs are always more complicated than you think they are

I see a lot of definitions of what exactly constitutes a bug, so I want to know what you guys think makes a bug.

So if you think that earthworms are bugs but spiders aren't, you'd click "An above definition + land worms" and then say "insects only" in the tags.

I wish I had one more option so I could just have a "see results" button but I won't. 😭 Please reblog so the rest of bugblr can see it!

We did it boys

i found an unfinished uquiz a made right after the supernatural final and reading it feels like reliving a fever dream