• KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    The nipples spook the horses and the horses spook the bears who have arrived to attack women because of their menstrual cycle.

    It’s one of natures wonderful circles.

  • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    Wait, women wear tops so they don’t scare horses?

    Great news, Ladies! There’s no horses around anymore! You can set those boobies FREE!

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          Not to ruin your day, but avoiding eye contact doesn’t make predators not want to eat you. Also, humans are evolved with forward facing eyes, so we look at stuff to see them. I don’t think this fact has anything to do with people who are uncomfortable with eye contact.

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            Tigers are less likely to attack you if there is eye contact. It is why, many times, people in tiger country wear hats with eyes on the back. Only one I can think of.

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            Huh? I’m referring to the idea that being face-to-face (ie, making straight eye contact) with a predator would naturally make someone feel tense. Ergo, it could make sense for eye contact to cause discomfort. Who said anything about making predators not wanting to eat someone?

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              “Being stared at by a predator makes me uncomfortable.”

              “But it’s your own species. You’re a predator.”

              “That also makes me uncomfortable.”

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                Most predators take direct eye contact as an act of aggression. When dogs are submissive, they lower their heads, or expose their neck or belly. Prey don’t like eye contact with predators because predators tend to look at what they are going to attack. Some cultures take direct eye contact as a sign of disrespect, others take avoiding eye contact as a sign of guilt or ill intent. As always, people are weird.

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                  cats are funny because they don’t like eye contact, unless you’re squinting at them which very explicitly means you’re super friendly, then they can just stare into your soul for hours as you rub their tummy and they rumble like a washing machine.

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    Honestly I’m amazed it’s legal for women to travel on freeways, at those speeds the chances of their uterus flying out is just so dangerous.

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    Not that surprising. I heard a pastor once say science cannot explain rainbows, and that same pastor also once said volcanoes are scientific proof that Hell is real because it proves hellfire coming out of the center of the earth (a lot of evangelical Christians believe Hell is actually physically located in the center of the earth). He also would routinely argue that the Bible says God will kill people who don’t give money to the church. Pastors can be genuinely unhinged.

  • im_me_but_better@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Interestingly enough, it may be women themselves due to societal expectations.

    It is legal in Canada. One day me, my partner and a friend (very feminist friend) were at the park in a nice spring sunny day. I removed my T-shirt and laid on the grass. She said something like “I think is should to”. I said " go ahead, why don’t you?" and she said something about feeling uncomfortable because no one else was doing it.

    (It wasn’t shyness with us. I had already seen her naked)