• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m guessing most animal behaviorists have priorities other than watching who is fucking whom. Unless we’re talking long-term bonding pairs, which are much easier to observe, but those are not the norm in the animal kingdom.

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      4 months ago

      No, the world and by extension science are just full of homophobia and strict, phantastical, expectations of what sexuality should look like.

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        4 months ago

        I don’t know that I would say that normalizing heterosexual behavior when it shouldn’t be normalized is homophobia. Misguided, bad science, poor bias, I would say any of that. But I don’t think you can credibly say that all of those scientists who just aren’t noticing homosexual mating practices are bigots.