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[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 months ago

Turtles are the horniest animals on the planet.

If you don't have enough girls per male, they will not be able to eat or drink because they are constantly molested by the fuckmachine males.

If you want to live with turtles, don't mix genders, or get a whole lot of turtles..

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago

Considering their reputation for lack of speed, the sex must be extremely satisfying so of course they're always wanting more! 🤪

[-] TotallyNotADolphin@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Fun fact, the velociraptor calls from Jurassic Park were based on sounds of turtles mating

[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When I was a teen I asked my religious homophobic grandma if animals dont have rational thought but can still be gay, how did they "choose" to be gay? Her response? Gay penguins dont have souls so it doesnt count.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago

To which I'd have been tempted to reply: "Then how is it that they care for one another if they are without souls? Maybe being so callously judgemental of that which you don't understand makes you the soulless one who doesn't count."

[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago
[-] iii@mander.xyz 4 points 4 months ago
[-] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Who knows what they were up to when nobody was watching... 😅

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

I keep babbling about turtles being shell-friends. But apparently some turtles are more than just friends!

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Oh my god, they were roommates.

[-] dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago

Everything comes from nature so nothing is unnatural.

[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Well that's not true. Hatsune miku is not natural in the slightest.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Well that would just diminish the value of having both words.

[-] purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 months ago

It's cute and all but... I really hate that arguement. If it wasn't natural, it wouldn't make it any less moral. We don't need to play by their rhetorical rules. I know that this is just a cute thing, but I see this kind of things all the time and I feel quite strongly about it. So what if I wasn't born this way? So what if it's not natural? Does it somehow make things worse? Or is just an excuse to justify hatred of something that just grosses the 'phobes out?... y'know?

[-] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Glasses are not natural, pacemakers are not natural, cars are not natural.

Anyone who uses "not natural" as an argument while not living in a brush hut and cooking over a woodfire is just a hypocrite

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

To be fair, when arguing with anyone about things not being natural, point out the car they drive, the processed food they cook, the job they work: all very unnatural things that people "choose" to do.

[-] Mandrilleren@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

I've been saying this for years. It doesn't matter if you choose to be gay or not. It doesn't matter how many biological sexes there are. People should do what ever the fuck they want with their own bodies and personalities.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 4 months ago

You know what else isn't natural? Clothes, houses, cars, glasses, phones...

It's just a dumb argument to begin with, and it's not even correct. Par for the course for conservatives.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Where exactly is the line between "natural" and "unnatural" and why should Humans abide by what is Natural anyway?

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 4 points 4 months ago

Those who complain such nonsense are almost always those using religion in an attempt to control and/or manipulate others because "God" is in theory "perfect" and therefore unquestionable. They conveniently forget "God" not only isn't the one making the complaint, but is also the one who supposedly created what they're complaining about to begin with.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They always have an answer though. Always.

I don’t understand how people can be so arrogant. Religious people come in two flavors though; the leaders who tell everyone what god wants (lol), and the people who follow those leaders but aren’t arrogant enough to think that their feelies must be the will of god.

“‘at queer made me uncomfortable, and my discomfort is god talking to me.”

“Amen brother dipshit!”

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

They may have an answer, but the "logic" behind them is frequently circular/self-referential in nature, and therefore invalid. But it sounds good enough to them so they'll refuse to even think about - let alone acknowledge - the large gaps/leaps in their so-called "reasoning" that so often completely destroy the foundations of their claims.

You're right: they almost always have "an answer" & as long as they're prepared with something to say, then they'll never care about how valid it is. They've got an answer, and that makes 'em right (wingnuts), goddammit!!!

[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Nah, 90% of all christian people are supremely arrogant.

They believe they are special, and better than every one else by divine mandate.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 points 4 months ago

TBF, that description pretty much applies to virtually all religious wingnuts, regardless of their specific "faith." Arrogant fanaticism is hardly unique to Christians.

[-] CXORA@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Sure, all religions suck. Just makes it worse to chose to be religious.

[-] boringgus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I was in a band by that name. We only played instrumental national anthems.

In hindsight, both factors might have limited our marketability a bit..

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Homosexual behaviour has been exhibited by every known species. Homophobia has only been documented in one .

Who's fuckin unnatural now?

[-] CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world -2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Maybe that's why they're almost extinct. By 1840, they had almost completely died out as a species.

[-] I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Or because they were hunted to near extinction by Europeans for soup and shell based accessories..?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seychelles_giant_tortoise

[-] misterdoctor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

No, it’s gotta be the gay

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

That, or all the crayons the original commenter has been devouring (username).

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

Gay tortoises are tastier.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

But much more difficult to breed... 🤪

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Humpback whales are “least concern” and the first images we have of them fucking is male on male.

There are lots of ways that having homosexual behavior in animals can help a species survive. Gay couples can raise orphans, sex can serve as a form of social bonding or even dominance to maintain social structures… It’s an uncritical high school student’s understanding of evolution and biology to assume that all adaptive behavior directly leads to reproduction.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 months ago

I smell an aquatic sequel: Humpback Trench

In stead of Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger when he was alive, it'll star an actual humpback whale and the remains of no longer alive Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger will still be amongst a whopping 64 posthumous Oscar nominees, but the only one to be nominated for posthumous accomplishments.

[-] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

"I wish I knew how to quit you, because you have destroyed my internal organs."

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 0 points 4 months ago

There have been numerous documented occurrences of homosexuality across a wide variety of species. If they were to become extinct, it'd be unlikely to be due to a relatively small percentage of them being gay.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

Apart from anything else, does that stop them from breeding?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Weaker/smaller male cuttlefish will pretend to be female cuttlefish, take “dick” (hectocotylus) from stronger male cuttlefish, and then use the distraction to breed with a female.

[-] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 1 points 4 months ago

Not my line of expertise, but I'd guess it's little different from us humans in that there's nothing technical preventing reproduction with a member of the opposite sex - just a matter of desire to.

Maybe the list of animals displaying homosexual behavior on Wikipedia can be a good starting place for research should you genuinely be curious about this.

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