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Sniffing women's tears reduces male aggression by 44%, study finds (newatlas.com)
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[–] 98 points 2 years ago (3 children)
  1. Build woman beating robot
  2. Harvest tears from beatings
  3. Expose violent husbands to harvested tears. Domestic Abuse Abolished 👍
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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I don't know if tears of joy or sadness will work, but maybe just try those before we build an army of woman pummeling robots? Surely synthetic tears are an option.

    All I am saying is we don't need to go right to having robots take our jobs on this one.

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    • [–] 50 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You know what we should study? What happens when you sniff women's tears.

    Uh, what did you say Steve?

    I said sniffing women's tears! It'll be awesome!!

    Steve, are you ok man?

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    • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Nature has ways of self-regulating, but some of them are pretty dark.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Male aggression leads to a lot of messed up shit. But some stuff is funny. There is this species of hummingbirds where males develop a bright purple star shaped plumage around their face. About 25 percent of females develop these characteristics too. Because bluffing yourself out of male aggression, outweighed the pro's of camouflage against predators. The biologist said that people often ask how it influnenced fheir chances at mating, to which he replied with: "I've seen male hummingbirds try to mate with a stump, so I don't expect it to be much of a problem." Adding to this, is that if too many females develop a male phenotype, the signaling "I am terretorial, stay away or I'll attack" of the feathers loses it's meaning and thus its protection.

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    • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This 44 percents says a lot about scale of study and it's makes me uncomfortable that someone actually wanted to make people sniff women's tears for no reason at all

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    • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    "Your tears sustain my chill!"

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    [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I smell a business opportunity.

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    [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    There was a New Wave band back in the 70s called Sniff and the Tears. I think they were ahead of their time.

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Me, making this my slack profile of the week:

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I keep a bottle in the glove box.

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    [+] -28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What about male tears? What about female aggression? Sounds like a strange framing for the study.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Have you considered reading the article? Sound smile a strange comment making for the subject.

    Having confirmed the effect of sniffing tears on men’s behavior, the researchers are keen to expand their research.

    “When we looked for volunteers who could donate tears, we found mostly women because, for them, it’s much more socially acceptable to cry,” Agron said. “Now, however, we must extend this research to include women to obtain a fuller picture of this impact.”

    From the study itself

    Moreover, although we tested tears from women donors, we speculate that all tears would have a similar effect. This becomes particularly ecologically relevant with infant tears, as infants lack verbal tools to curb aggression against them and are therefore more likely to rely on chemosignals.

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