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Background: one out of every million snails has a shell that twists the wrong way; left-handed instead of right-handed. As a result, their dicks are on the wrong side and they can't mate. A scientist found one of these snails and named it Jeremy. NPR did a report about it and it went viral and everyone was looking for another left-handed snail to send to the scientist so that Jeremy could have a girlfriend.
AWWWWEEE!!!!! KAWAII!!!!!!
The point: I just think it's funny that, for any non-human species, there's this outpouring of sympathy and there are people all over the world wanting to help.
Here's a cutie that wrote a song about Jeremy and note the lyrics, "I [Jeremy] just want to belong."
See, she gets it. She's capable of understanding that loneliness is tragic - everyone is. Of course, being a foid she leverages that understanding to write a sad song ...so that she gets attention, but let's stay on the subject here. The idea of a creature being hopelessly alone is recognized by everyone as sad. Jeremy isn't the only example. People care about the 52 hertz whale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale People care about the Kauai bird:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THqAY3u5oY
...they just don't care about you. It's your fault that you're alone. You're a bad person. Nobody is going to tell a snail that he should just take a shower. Nobody is going to call the Kauai bird that he's "entitled" and that he isn't owed a mate. But they will say those things to you.
And fundamentally, this is because humans aren't really rational. We're running on instinct and one of our instincts is to believe that a man who isn't selected by a woman is a bad person. So when people here about you, they assume you're bad, because of that instinct. But when they hear about any other species (or a lonely woman), it's sad and they empathize.
AWWWWEEE!!!!! KAWAII!!!!!!
The point: I just think it's funny that, for any non-human species, there's this outpouring of sympathy and there are people all over the world wanting to help.
Here's a cutie that wrote a song about Jeremy and note the lyrics, "I [Jeremy] just want to belong."
See, she gets it. She's capable of understanding that loneliness is tragic - everyone is. Of course, being a foid she leverages that understanding to write a sad song ...so that she gets attention, but let's stay on the subject here. The idea of a creature being hopelessly alone is recognized by everyone as sad. Jeremy isn't the only example. People care about the 52 hertz whale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52-hertz_whale People care about the Kauai bird:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5THqAY3u5oY
...they just don't care about you. It's your fault that you're alone. You're a bad person. Nobody is going to tell a snail that he should just take a shower. Nobody is going to call the Kauai bird that he's "entitled" and that he isn't owed a mate. But they will say those things to you.
And fundamentally, this is because humans aren't really rational. We're running on instinct and one of our instincts is to believe that a man who isn't selected by a woman is a bad person. So when people here about you, they assume you're bad, because of that instinct. But when they hear about any other species (or a lonely woman), it's sad and they empathize.