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[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Well, if you look at any animal species, assume variations to occur. There are so many different sexes, genders and sexualities out in the animal kingdom, but our society's cisheterosexual bias has conditioned us to believe that all animals are straight and cis...

As a reading suggestion you may look into Evolution's Rainbow by Joan Roughgarden

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It was just my lame attempt at being funny. I'm fully aware that the animal kingdom is as diverse in sexuality as our own. ;)

[–] flora_explora@beehaw.org 1 points 2 hours ago

Aw sorry, didn't get the irony in your original statement...