Comment on Can someone explain the Birds and the Bees to me? I get its related to sex somehow but was never told the story or where it got started or how come a plant and insect?

• FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  yes but tv shows predate televisions

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨34⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    On the way across the great plains, families traveling the Oregon trail would sit around the campfire imagining what Leave It To Beaver would be like one day

    landed families in the 1500s would invite company over to watch the servants act out the episode where the earl of leicester accidentally makes dates with two women he is courting at the same time and has to be in both places at once

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• YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I am not trying to be rude, but did you read the literal first thing they typed? I’m fairly certain they are aware that a sitcom from the early aughts, focusing on an era from 20+years earlier, on popular television, was addressing something that was relatable to people from way before the show was even about?

  I’m genuinely sorry, cause it does sound rude.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨44⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Yes, that’s what I replied to. It sounded like they were genuinely not sure (but thought it wasn’t), not making a tongue-in-cheek comment. Guess I was being dumb.

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• Fondots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  True, but fathers have been threatening their daughters’ suitors since time immemorial.

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  • ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨43⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    True

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