Women less likely to be idealists? smoothbrains.net — Estrogen: A trip report https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-06-15-estrogen.html
“there is greater acceptance of gay (vs. transgender) people in most Western countries, whereas the reverse is true in most non-Western countries.” huh
There are some aphids that are switch hitters between asexual and sexual reproduction. When conditions are nice, you just pop out clones of yourself and avoid the huge cost overhead that comes with sexual reproduction. If your aphid works, you can keep it. But then as conditions get worse, you switch to sexual reproduction to get a more diverse book of strategies.
Male birds are beautiful because most male birds don’t have penises, and so can’t rape, and so females have selection power, which males have to compete for by being beautiful. This is why the least beautiful kinds of birds do have penises.
- Ok then why Wodaabe: Herdsman of the Sun?