in addition to every other "thought" here being wrong and stupid, it especially irritates me when people assign / conflate sexual dimorphic phenotypes/behaviors from highly divergent species to backstop their own bullshit. it's part of the jordan peterson playbook and it's about as scientific as "cats are girls" / "dogs are boys".

it's one thing to put on a silly "fascinator" type of hat and say "i'm peacocking". that's a shorthand we can all understand. but it's something else to say "this bird is performing x and that is scientifically analogous to some specific baggage i carry about humans." they're fucking BIRDS. it's a completely different class and they are on a completely distinct sex-determination system that has its own chromosome pairing.

it's not XX = female bird, XY = male bird. it's ZW. and it's oppositional to the XY system. the homogametic ZZ is the "male" bird, and the heterogametic ZW is the egg-laying "female"| bird. further, in birds the ovum (not the sperm) determines the sex of offspring. the male/female binary is something we place on ourselves and other species to make the world conform to our need for simple patterns upholding a primitive self-understand that does not challenge established power.