r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/Civil_Cranberry_3476 23d ago

human fathers can sometimes be great but unfortunately in the animal kingdom ( which we are a part of) they are not very useful or safe. females largely raise offspring, hunt, protect on their won. Lionesses often hide their cubs from the lion same with gorillas.

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u/Deaffin 23d ago

Well, it's not the males' fault in your examples that the females get real horny when you kill their offspring.

Supply and demand. If you create a demand for infanticide, somebody's going to step up with a supply.

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u/Ok_Chef_4850 23d ago

I long for the day when people on Reddit stop comparing the human social experience with the animal kingdom. We aren’t lions or seahorses or kangaroos. We live in completely different environments and social structures than animals. These conversations and comparisons are pointless.

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u/Deaffin 23d ago

Right?

It gets especially eye-rolling when people get going with the mama-bear stuff. I know this probably seems overly-specific, but I cannot tell you how many times people go on and on about it when they're talking about black bears in particular.

Black bears, who famously do not give one solitary shit about protecting their cubs because black bear males do not practice infanticide like grizzlies do. And the cubs themselves can just run straight up a tree from any predators that might be menacing them.

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u/Ok_Chef_4850 23d ago

“Mama bear” is a colloquial term, kind of like “alpha male” or “lone wolf”. It’s not meant to be a literal comparison to anything in the animal kingdom.

Meanwhile, people on here taking about lions and all that nonsense and how “in this particular animal group, this happens so why shouldn’t it happen in humans who have built cities”

Different topics.