The reply is stooping to the same level by personifying the octopi and applying human gender theory onto them, but it's doing so specifically to show that this framing is misogynistic. It's not as simple to clearly demonstrate this sexism if you stop personifying the octopi. Because there's layers of misconstruance, it's much simpler to address the layer you specifically have issue with rather than all layers at once.
It's not really a simple issue to handle cleanly without becoming clunky with explanations. The same communication dilemma happens with STEM trying to address misinformation.
For most octopuses, the ultimate life stage is senescence. It is the breakdown of cellular function without repair or replacement. It may last from weeks to a few months at most.
Males senesce after maturity, while for females, it comes after they lay an egg clutch.
19 Comments
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 123 pts · 140d
To be fair, pelted by silt and rocks is the actual no - octopi can't speak.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 140d
Their entire skin is covered in chromophores that constantly show their emotional state.
I'm assuming the male octopus knows plenty well.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 140d
I've never seen an octopus spell "no" either. Presumably due to Black Swan effect.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 44 pts · 140d
Pretty advanced misogyny to personify octopuses and then blame the "women" octopuses for rejecting sexual advances.
krashmo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 140d
Isn't the reply doing the same thing to male octopi?
JayDee@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 140d
The reply is stooping to the same level by personifying the octopi and applying human gender theory onto them, but it's doing so specifically to show that this framing is misogynistic. It's not as simple to clearly demonstrate this sexism if you stop personifying the octopi. Because there's layers of misconstruance, it's much simpler to address the layer you specifically have issue with rather than all layers at once.
It's not really a simple issue to handle cleanly without becoming clunky with explanations. The same communication dilemma happens with STEM trying to address misinformation.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 140d
Disagreeing with a misogynist isn't misandry.
caradenada@feddit.cl · -11 pts · 140d
Yes, but, you see, misandry is cool.
plyth@feddit.org · 36 pts · 140d
... not in the mood to die.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopus
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 17 pts · 140d
Why is their biology so fucking stupid?
Huschke@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 140d
Because it worked.
Evolution is just random mutations that may or may not work out.
LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 140d
So no egg clutch = immortal female octopods?
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 140d
So women carry around purses full of rocks and pepper spray?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz · 53 pts · 140d
Pocket sand
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 140d
ch cha
searabbit@piefed.social · 21 pts · 140d
Same energy as the people who handed out bricks to pedestrians to wave threateningly at cars so they wouldn't get any funny ideas at the intersection.
raman_klogius@ani.social · 10 pts · 140d
Those are often "prop" bricks that are light enough to carry effortlessly. The handbags otoh weigh as much as the real one.
Brummbaer@pawb.social · 8 pts · 140d
Octopi are truly the next in line to develop civilization, they already got sexual harassment down.
Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 140d
octopuses can't talk genious