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[–] 219 points 10 months ago (9 children)

I'm a cis white male with hair long enough to ponytail. Playing with my daughter at the park, a little one asked me if I was her mom or dad. When I told her that I was her father, she asked me why I had a ponytail. Without missing a beat I responded with "because my hair is long." Little girl thought for a moment, put on a "yeah, that makes sense" look, and went about to go play.

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  • [–] 73 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    The next question I’d expect from a little kid would be “why is your hair long?”.

    And another why, and another, and another…

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    A good way to break the unending question sequence is to ask them what they think about whatever they asked.

    "Why is your hair long?" "Well, why do you think someone might have long hair?"

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    As a dad of a three year old with a VERY ravenous appetite for knowledge, I can confirm this. It somehow also feels like that kinda seems to be developing some thinking skills because the kid is sometimes surprisingly profound and has a magnificent imagination.

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  • [–] 29 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sibling and I were visiting my mum. Neighbour kids were playing outside when we arrived. They loudly asked 'why does the boy have long hair and the girl short hair?' Mum said 'Because they each like their hair that way!' and the kids were also like 'yeah that makes sense'. Kids love learning new stuff, it comes easily to most of them to learn that humans can differ.

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  • [–] 137 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Huh, TIL

    https://www.kqed.org/science/1446777/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-snail-sex

    When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts. Both snails in a pairing transfer sperm, but whichever snail got in the best shot with the dart has a better chance of ultimately fertilizing eggs.

    First they stab eachother. The better the stab, the more effective the stabber's sperm will be. Then they exchange fluids. Then they settle down, buy a minivan, and waste away in an office until they die.

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  • [–] 68 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    They're snails, they are the minivans.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts.

    That reminds me of this sweet old love song by an old cowboy band.

    [Outro]
    Criticize what you wreck
    We're fucking you back
    Fucking you back

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  • [+] 116 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
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  • [–] 56 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    Until it is abused out of them, on Sundays, at a special building.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I went to church and sunday school for years and they never mentioned homosexuality. Or sexuality really.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I grew up in the Bible Belt and churches in my hometown would put up homophobic messages on those outdoor notice boards that you see as you drive by. Not every single one, but not none of them, either. This was going on until the late 2000s at least, I’ve heard it’s marginally improved.

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    For those that don't get it this is survivorship bias.

    During World War 2 they were attempting to figure out how to better equip the planes they had to survive. A certain statistician by the name of Wald figured out that the holes in the planes that they could track weren't that important because those were the planes that returned. Instead it was safer to assume that everywhere else needed better protection, as the planes that received damage in those areas weren't returning.

    Sorry if I ruined the funny, but I saw the downvotes and was concerned.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I don't know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I've ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I only interact with kids who don't have shitty parents

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    It's not shitty parenting. Kids at a certain age just don't take correction from people who they don't feel have a right to correct them. Sometimes that person is no one. My kid refuses to believe the sun is not a planet. She will argue until she's blue in the face. She has argued that she's a boy. Later that she's a girl. She misgendered people all the time and wasn't open to correction from anyone including me for a while. You think, "call people what they want to be called" is an easy lesson to teach. It is not. It took over a year to make it stick. Kids are just dicks sometimes.

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  • [–] 50 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Don't fucking compare yourself to snails unless you can stab your lovers with spears from your own body.

    At best, you're a clown fish or a frog.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    I told u that, snails are hermafrodites.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Isn't it snails where 'male' and 'female' is decided by who wins the slow-motion penis-knife fight?

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    My friend said they were being drilled by some guy for over an hour who needed to know, male or female. My friend is genderfluid, and they had a great time making that guy look like an idiot. He even threatened to inform the authorities. I hope they do, because anyone who reads that conversation will realize how stupid that guy looked.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    God, this explains SO MUCH about snails.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    As someone who owns snails, who told you that? I have a tank with females and one with males

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    working as a bagger as a grocery store I interact with hundreds of people daily. In an ENTIRE 7 hour shift I only had 2 customers say sir and ma'am respectively.

    it's honestly crazy to go from constant "thank you sir"s to literally only 2. And it's always 50/50 which one they say 😭. It's not that they don't respect me either, they're all really respectful! they just like aren't confident enough in their guess to give a solid answer

    my favorite person ever is when I helped an old guy put a package of water into his car and he said "oh thank you "sir-uh-ma'a-....they-uh....Quinn?" while I just stood there like🧍‍♀️

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