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Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days agoThe gesture almost can’t mean the same thing to a creature that doesn’t have a pair of soft appendages with some of the densest nerve clusters on its entire body in that specific location. But yeah raising a child together is pretty darn gay. I guess they could be platonically coparenting but tbh that seems like an even bigger anthropomorphization. “They’re gay, Karen” is honestly just occam’s razor for this situation.
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
I’ve seen birds kissing, and I can’t come up with any nonsexual explanation for it.
lath@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You should start streaming some old Animal Planet shows. Grooming each other is a big part of social bonding among many different animals.
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Humans cuddle platonically/familially. I also wonder if it’s maybe not more like holding hands which isn’t always romantic among humans depending on culture. Again, arguing 0% on the gayness, my only beef is with the anthropomorphization, and the whole point of acknowledging in the first place is that no human has any real way of knowing what’s going on in an animal’s head.