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In bonobo societies, all bonobos frequently engage in sexual contact with other members of the community, regardless of sex. Female bonobos in particular are quite promiscuous with both fellow females and males; thus, bonobo society is matrilineal or matrifocal. Since the patriline of each member is unknown due to female bonobos having many sexual partners, the female bonobos take communal care of their collective young, and the male bonobos take on other community-care roles instead. It is theorized that this leads to lower levels of violent conflict, as opposed to chimpanzee, human, and other primate societies that are patriarchal, since male members of these societies must find ways to identify their offspring which inevitably leads to violent, controlling behavior toward female members as well as violence & competitive behavior toward other males who may pose a threat to their social statuses. Bonobo societies are extremely peaceful in comparison to other primate societies.

The feature musical film Mamma Mia! (2008), directed by Phyllida Lloyd, shows an example of what a matrifocal society, resembling the structure of bonobo society, could look like for humans; where several females care for a child whose exact paternity is unknown, and instead of violence resort to prosocial behavior (joyfully singing and dancing) in order to resolve conflict. In this essay I will attempt to

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oh dang, it's gonna take them even longer to get home in that

[Image description a news screenshot reading "Physicists make tiny model of Star Trek's USS Voyager that's smaller than a human hair"]

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today's bug thing is this button caterpillar hat!

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"You think you're informed just because you read a bunch of grainy PDFs?"

Yeah man. Reading scholarly works on a topic informs you on that topic. That's how this works.

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a second bumblebee has hit the flowers

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Yellowjackets / Girl bullying stock photos parallels part2

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One day after the other...in the right order. I always wondered what it would be like. And do you know what it was like? Amazing. And you know why it was amazing? You. A whole year of you. Wow.

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DOCTOR WHO (2023 - ) I Joy to the World

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me: I think I'm actually being very fair and level-headed in my queer analysis of Wicked. I think a lot of this was done completely intentionally. I really think all my points about Lesbian Glinda are completely reasonable and well-informed.

also me: I just feel like Glinda's weird little two-second obsession with the mustached train conductor reads very lesbian, you know? every lesbian needs to have a little guy. she latched onto that cute little mustached old man in a distinctly lesbian way. i've done it, you've done it, every lesbian has done it. including Glinda. with her weird little mustache man.

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Only on TARDIS wiki

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an incomplete taxonomy of christmas music

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Wicked book fan comic

I got motivated for the comic after a friend of mine read the book before going to watch the film. We were commenting the chapters so I revisited some of the scenes to remember. This is one of my favorites. I love them so much 🥺

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24 DAYS OF HORROR-MAS ( 10 / 24 )

Christmas is fast becoming my least favorite "C" word. You wouldn't be saying that if you were dressed like a festive legend! Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) dir. John McPhail

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WIP

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Well you see minors under 25 years old should not be allowed to get gender reassignment surgery because what if they go to the clinic but instead of giving them a normal penis the nurses mess up and give them the evil penis. That's irreversible