• frankenswine@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    according to my biology teacher, this is not cultural but rather a biological fact prevalent in (most? all?) animals - not that this would help in any debate

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      1 month ago

      What exactly? Dispensability of males? It is indeed common in the animal world, though not universal; besides, we don’t struggle to survive as a species, and culturally evolved to be humane.

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        1 month ago

        imho the “humane” part is mostly propaganda to hide the insane atrocities of our time. there is way more (hu)man-made misery than in earlier times

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          Earlier times featured slavery, neverending wars everywhere, and a lot of other sources of completely man-made misery.

          Now we got to understand all lives matter, sudden deaths of people are perceived as a big tragedy, yet men are still less grieved upon.

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      Interesting offside note from an old 1958 experiment that I recently read on attempts at raising Grouse (extremely difficult due to their ineffective immune systems), but one test batch lost all males to disease. Eventually, one of the hens took on male mating mannerisms and behaviors with the other females. The other females self-ovulated and laid unfertilized eggs. It was only during autopsy that the “male” was determined to be a female because it had convinced the researchers so well.

      Biologically, males are a necessary component (under the logic of “at least one”) of dimorphic species but people really should ensure that the limiting factors aren’t largely based on primitive sexual and reproductive requirements. People just need to take better care of each other, period.