Anonymous #2 3d

CAME HERE TO COMMENT THIS LMAO

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Anonymous #6 3d

I can surely promise you we don’t care about gay penguins

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Anonymous #8 3d

I love Matthew and Paul 😭😭😭

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Holy cope

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I think 2 males of any species count as gay lol

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Anonymous #9 3d

Factually untrue

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Anonymous #6 3d

It’s a joke guys, ik they both couldn’t have had the egg lol

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Anonymous #9 3d

No it’s factually untrue that conservatives don’t care. Given a book about this exact situation was the big reason for all those book bans

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Anonymous #16 3d

Ya…. Penguins understand wokeness

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Bonobos, as well as over 1000 other species, are gonna blow your fucking mind.

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Two males: *have penetrative sex* #21: “clearly this isn’t evidence of actual homosexual activity.”

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Anonymous #11 3d

A little late for pride but oh well I’m down

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 3d

#21 was god crazy but couldn’t accept nature lol

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 3d

Funniest response to homophobia I’ve ever seen

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Anonymous #2 3d

HELP

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Anonymous #29 3d

It literally is a part of the natural world

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Anonymous #5 3d

Cap

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Anonymous #3 3d

Bro it’s a joke 😭

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Anonymous #3 3d

At least amongst us queers

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Anonymous #27 3d

Fashionably late, iconic

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Anonymous #6 3d

What part? The part where two male penguins decide to raise a child. That is natural. Even though they may be trapped outside of nature in a cramped space where environment can change behavior… I guess that is somewhat natural because they are doing what they know. Now… Us relating and reasoning why and how they are doing it and applying it to our own relationships and ideas of natural love… that’s not natural.

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Anonymous #29 3d

what about the homosexual animals that aren’t in a controlled environment?? why do you care sm about gay penguins

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Anonymous #29 2d

Yes it is natural

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Anonymous #29 2d

Actually penguins have been shown to exhibit this behavior in the wild too. Why choose a male penguin when they can choose a female to raise the baby with? Animals have been shown to exhibit queer behaviors however it is more rare as animals primarily have sex to reproduce

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Anonymous #8 2d

Omg yasss

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Anonymous #17 2d

Technically penguins aren’t naturally “gay.” They can’t tell the difference between other male and female penguins until they have sex, and penguins mate for life. “Homosexuality” in penguins is not comparable to homosexuality in humans

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Anonymous #40 2d

Plus, now I could be wrong here, but, I don’t think there are lesbian penguins

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Anonymous #40 2d

I believe in nature there are clear distinction between both sex’s in animals, and at least to animals they definitely would know the distinction in there own kind.

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Anonymous #40 2d

no it definitely says that they can tell the gender apart, i don’t know where you got this from, maybe that we can’t tell them apart because the size difference isn’t that much. Plus there are lesbian penguins, Electra and Viola

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Anonymous #25 2d

I love that I can come back to this post and see a new argument each time. Why do people care so much about 2 male penguins caring for an egg together. Like honestly there is more to argue about in the world. Let the penguins be

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Anonymous #40 2d

They can tell the difference between other male and female penguins by scent and pheromones. That’s how animals usually identify species

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Anonymous #4 2d

wrong person 😭

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Anonymous #42 2d

Elite reference

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2d

“It immoral and sets a bad example” motherfucker they are PENGUINS. 🏴‍☠️ is a legend

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Anonymous #43 2d

Way, way, wayyyyyy before 🦕🦤

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Anonymous #16 2d

That "st" is doing heavy lifting for my psyche

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Why do you wanna know the intimate activities of a penguin. That’s gross bro

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Anonymous #20 2d

I’m asking an informative question to see whether or not these penguins are gay as implied by the person I asked or if they are simply cohabitating but have no sexual desire between each other as if they are roommates.

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Anonymous #45 2d

Penguins will often raise each other’s eggs in a communal setting.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2d

So it’s not indicative of sexual attraction. Also, why would they randomly raise another penguin’s kid? If the chick one of the two male penguin’s offspring? Why would the mother or perhaps both parents just leave and/or randomly give their offspring to someone else? It’s one thing if every adult penguin in the group raises every child penguin in the group but this post implies a family structure.

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Anonymous #45 2d

The male penguins will pair up and share signals of attraction in the same manner as a heterosexual penguin pair. You can kinda see it in the pic above.

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2d

Including simulating reproduction/having sex? Also, whose chick are they raising? Did some mother or mother and father just abandon or give up their chick?

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Anonymous #45 2d

omg give it a rest, penguins of the same sex actually do sexual acts together but I don’t know what that’s so validating for you when they also partake in mating rituals without the egg or fertilization so it’s so weird if you right now to even try to make it seem like they’re just roommates, deal with it that there are homosexual penguins.

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Anonymous #25 2d

The point is intellectual honesty and scientific reality. If they do simulate reproduction/have sex then okay, but I was asking so I would know that smh

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Anonymous #25 2d

45 probably thinks Achilles was just “special friends” with Patroclus

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Anonymous #17 2d

So two guys who are roommates in an apartment must be gay? Smh. Also, did it say in Greek mythology that Achilles and Patroclus ever had a romantic or sexual relationship? If so, then yes they’d be gay, but if not then there’s no reason to think they are gay smh.

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Anonymous #45 2d

So… have you actually tried researching the subject on your own or are you just gonna keep making arguments here?

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Anonymous #42 2d

Context… I need the chemical’s names

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Anonymous #9 2d

“They’re turning the frogs gay” - if u know, u know

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Anonymous #29 2d

Crazy how religious people focus almost solely on the “sin” of being gay when they also say “all sin is equal in the eyes of god” but then go on to sin in so many other ways acting like they’re higher than thou 🤡🤡🤡

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2d

I was asking a question on a post discussing the topic, then people start coming at me so I responded. If you don’t know the answer then just be like “idk, Google is your best shot” or something like that smh

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Anonymous #45 2d

english and comm double major here: this is definitely untrue— that last sentence collapses your argument bc of the entire existence of the subjective experience and interpretive meaning of the written word

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Anonymous #45 2d

And sapphos just had really close “gal pals”

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Anonymous #17 2d

And they were roommates…

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Anonymous #17 2d

It’s these chemicals they’re putting in the water. It also affects the frogs

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 2d

My god they were roommates!

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why are you being homophobic towards penguins

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Anonymous #49 1d

my brain just nutted at this lil blurb, beautifully written 🙏🏻

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Anonymous #45 1d

OMG NIGGA DAMN 😭 WHY DO YOU WANT TO KNOW IF THEYRE GAY? THEYRE FUCKING PENGUINS. THEY DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT GAY MEANS.

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Anonymous #55 1d

LMFAO THANK YOU

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I’m honestly at a loss as to why 45 has been so downvoted… it seems like they saw something that made them curious and want to know information, so they thought, “hey, might as well ask the OP/community if they know more about the penguins’ behavior, sexual and otherwise.” It seems to me like 45 was just trying to understand what was going on and why, which shouldn’t be offensive to anyone with any degree of patience. We all have different experiences and bodies of knowledge, so we have to…

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Anonymous #57 1d

Thank you! Finally, someone who understands

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Anonymous #57 1d

… accept that some people will not know things that we know, and might ask us for help in understanding the things we have knowledge on. So when someone asks a genuine question, either answer them politely or choose not to, but there’s no need to warp what they said or put them down for not being an expert on penguin behavior. To a layperson on animal/penguin behavior(me included), the questions 45 asked are valid!

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Anonymous #57 1d

I suspect that some of the downvoters assumed that 45 was homophobic from the start, and never engaged with what they were really asking as a result.

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Anonymous #57 1d

i'm just gonna leave this here, you can tell #45 was not coming from a place of wanting to have knowledge on it because they could've easily searched up if they had sexual relations, I have a low patience for any bigotry and them trying to debunk it and go back and forth and what they were saying also was a clear sign of them trying to go against it. Basically a place of trying to debunk it rather than learning something new.

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What exactly did I say was homophobic? How is asking for clarification on a topic homophobic? How is intellectual honesty homophobic? Smh

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Anonymous #54 1d

I’m not. What did I say was homophobic?

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Anonymous #45 1d

Personally, I don’t think you’re homophobic. I’m just pointing out that if you want the nitty gritty on homosexuality in nature, there are plenty of scientific papers on the subject. I’ve read them, they’re good reading. I was (albeit rudely, I apologize) suggested you look elsewhere.

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Anonymous #45 1d

This one’s abbreviated, but it’s an old favorite of mine.

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Anonymous #25 1d

Honestly, I can’t speak to why 45 asked that question here rather than search for the answers on their own online. Perhaps they figured there was a community that might know more about penguins’ sexual and amorous behaviors who could answer their questions quickly without them having to do all that research theirself.

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Anonymous #57 1d

In the Popbase comment section??? 😭

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Anonymous #57 1d

Googling takes 5 seconds 😭

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Anonymous #57 1d

Tbh it’s because I thought maybe OP or OC would know because they’d have the details so it would be more drive by than going to do the research myself separately. At least it was worth a shot

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Anonymous #56 1d

It’s about the curiosity of the subject matter that someone brought up smh and if they willingly partake in homosexual activity that would make them gay or bisexual, how would it not?

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Anonymous #49 1d

What exactly did I say was untrue?

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Anonymous #58 1d

Yeah for dominance not like humans just stop 😂😂

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Anonymous #45 1d

the last sentence, like i said

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Anonymous #36 18h

Not exactly. It happens in more social species because their survival depends on strong communities. For that, you need a few members of the community that are childless and have free time to do things like guard areas or find the best feeding grounds or defend against predators. Also, they serve as great backup parents if one couple dies and another needs to take care of the kid. For species that take a lot of work to raise young, this is especially important.

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Anonymous #45 17h

You think they made the penguins be gay? Weird asf ever heard of a foundling before? If not look it up it may help! Male Penguins almost always stay and sit on the egg while their partner goes and provides. Very opposite of our proposed reality yet you still feel the need to fit animals into the same box as humans. At the end of the day the baby penguin has parents and that's all that matters!

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Anonymous #45 16h

Biologist here: penguins are known to be gay in the wild as well. They treat each other as mates. There is more to sexual interactions between individuals in the wild is more than sex and clearly you have no understanding of that

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Anonymous ireallylikepancakes 16h

“It’s immoral” BITCH ITS NATURAL IT HAPPENS IN THE FUCKING WILD

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Anonymous #29 16h

Penguins are also gay in the wild. This is basic common fucking biology

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Anonymous #47 16h

Your view on religion has been tainted. It’s about acknowledging sin as sin. Those who are truly “religious” are truly repentful. They See the errors in themselves and all their earthly beliefs/ and possessions and understand they aren’t “enough” (as modern ideology would like you to believe) but need an intervener.

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Anonymous #62 16h

I’m sure some are, but definitely not for the same reasons as we would think. It’s not lust or love. It’s instinct and confusion. I’m just trying to say we shouldn’t be comparing ourselves to penguins just because two decide to be together.

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Anonymous #17 16h

My argument is not that it isn’t in nature that two male penguins come together I literally said “…to raise a child. That is natural EVEN though they may trapped outside of nature” and the second half was stating that environment can change behavior. MY point is that we can’t be relating the instincts and some of the behaviors penguins or any other animal to support our own beliefs on relationships. Dolphins rape, praying mantises eat their partners head, and many others hurt their mate

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Anonymous #29 13h

Well you should tell that to them so they can stop verbally harassing and abusing others for their choice of beliefs. It’s insane that people think it’s ok to force their beliefs upon others who already told them to STOP. That’s called ignoring lack of given consent.

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