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On the topic of 'the things we believe', how about this earth-shaking revelation (well it was for me anyway!)
Female praying mantis don't eat their male mates after mating!
From Iblamethepatriarchy.com
Mantid of the week
"Stressed by unnatural laboratory conditions, mantid females go into survival mode and may eat the odd male or two. Who wouldn’t? Yet mantid researchers of yore obtained the result they wanted (female mantids are super-kinky brain-eating zombie bitches) by manipulating the subjects (starving them) until they exhibited the desired aberrant behavior (encephalophagia) that they could then characterize as abnormal compared to the default (male) subject. Thus was the time-honored Pyschotic Sexual Predator Sexpot narrative transubstantiated by dudescience into Mantistown. Where it’s become the bug world equivalent of “Snapped.”
Read the rest of the quirky article here (if you are at all interested).
6 comments:
"super-kinky brain-eating zombie bitches"
The best line I've read in many a year...and who amongst us sisters hasn't felt like that at certain times!!
I just don't get it Suz :-)
"super-kinky brain-eating zombie bitches"
Yeah I've met a few of those, at least praying mantises only do it when they are near starving. :)
Never under-estimate the frightningly awesome powers of female hormones Shunda.
I have photographic evidence that might suggest otherwise
http://loveplantlife.com/2010/06/13/mange-a-trois/
Your photos do suggest otherwise Anna and if I were a male mantis, I'd be watching my back. Perhaps they're so delerious with joy they don't feel a thing!
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