After a Pew Research report found that mothers were the sole breadwinners in 40% of American households with children, Erick Erickson said on Fox Business that it is “anti-science” to suggest that’s acceptable.
Said Erickson: “I’m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they’re anti-science. But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology — when you look at the natural world — the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role.”
Also too, what’s the proposed conservative policy to combat this unnatural abomination? Just pay women less?
sparrow
I suggest Erick’s woman (if he has one) emulate the natural world, preferably the Praying Mantis.
mapaghimagsik
He keeps stressing his dominance. Perhaps it just posturing?
IowaOldLady
“We will never give you cause to hate us.”
It’s amazing the stuff that floats around in my brain when I can’t remember what day it is.
Jay B.
Liberals are cool with women being the breadwinners. If they are single moms, that’s a lot harder and liberals would like there to be more of a support structure. What was the accusation again?
Doug Milhous J
@IowaOldLady:
I’m glad someone got one of my “Mary Poppins” references this time.
Gin & Tonic
As a dude, I look at biology and I’m scared shitless with the number of species where the female kills the male after he performs his “dominant” duty to help preserve the species. I’m glad my wife let me live after I deposited my sperm.
Cassidy
@mapaghimagsik: Some people never get over being bullied.
Jay C
OK, so is Erick Erickson going to be the first one to volunteer to take his clothes off, leave his house, and run around on all fours in the forest only eating what he can catch and eat with his bare hands, to better emulate the “natural world”??
And will it be on YouTube?
quannlace
Oh please, that whole ‘King of the Jungle’ idea is pure nonsense. Speaking of which, look a pride of lions. The male takes it pretty easy; it’s the lioness’ that do all the hunting, i.e. bring home the bacon.
ericblair
Blah, blah, getcher butt back in the kitchen because SCIENCE!!!!, whut?
I thought they hated SCIENCE!!! because scientists hate oil and Jeebus. Maybe they only hate SCIENCE!!! on odd-numbered weeks or something.
beltane
The men must be spending all their money on gunz instead of contributing to their children’s upbringing. Wouldn’t Ericksen consider this a good thing?
Shakezula
I wonder what animals he has in mind? Can’t be the ones where the male fertilizes the female and then the parents part. Can’t be the ones where both parents work their tails off to rear the brood. Could it be the animals where a dominant male has a harem of females? Possibly.
But not lions. The lionesses do all of the work and that would offend his Lardship.
Luthe
Dear Erik bin Erik,
Female lions are the breadwinners of the pride. The male sits on his ass all day and sometimes roars. Sound familiar?
ericblair
@Gin & Tonic:
Mine’s asking me about exactly how much life insurance I’ve got. I think she’s still working on it.
catclub
@quannlace: Also, female hawks are larger than male ones.
Luthe
@Jay C:
Please, think of the children. And my poor bleeding eyes. *drinks brain bleach*
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Boy howdy does he not know anything about the natural world. For most species – at least mammals – the male takes off well prior to birth and has nothing to do with being a bread-winner, sole or otherwise, for the family. Even in those instances where the male sticks around (e.g. wolf packs) the female is a co-equal in helping provide food for the offspring. The male may be “dominant” socially, but when it comes to bringing home the bacon to the kids, he’s at best a co-equal, and more often than not a deadbeat.
shortstop
Well done, sister suffragettes. Sometimes I can’t believe my kind has been able to vote for less than a century. And sometimes I look around at the current GOP and can’t believe I’ve managed to hang onto my franchise.
catclub
@Shakezula: “dominant male has a harem of females”
Rats, Its Jonah Lardberg who reminds one of an elephant seal.
Except, of course, for the actual harem. And the dominant.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Argh! Me man, me king! Right, honey?
pacem appellant
Some aberrant animals, in Erikson’s World:
Sea horse males carry the eggs until they hatch in a kangaroo-like pouch.
Praying mantis females are known to eat anything, including the male inseminating her.
Laysan albatross females shack up and raise an egg together.
Penguin males spend an equal amount of time nurturing the egg and chick as their female partners.
Clown fish can change their sex on demand.
The list goes on and on. The more one actually knows about the animal kingdom, the less one is prone to utter anthropomorphic jibberish.
ETA: who can forget the matriarchal female hyena, whose a clitoris larger than the male’s penis?
ranchandsyrup
It’s SCIENCE and the HARD TRUTH. Which he will not demonstrate even though that is the fucking point of using SCIENCE and TRUTH to justify your position.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?:
Erick, son of Erick, is simply furthering the time honored tradition of troglodytes of warping science to whatever they want it to mean, even if it’s 180 degrees of what science actually says.
dedc79
He also wants to eliminate the social safety net, you know, because people (including women) who don’t work must be lazy. Got that? A single mother who doesn’t get a job gets no assistance because she’s lazy. A single mother who finds a way to work while raising her children is going against biology.
Roger Moore
I guess Erick doesn’t know about all the species where the males play no role in raising the offspring. Free hint: make sure you know something about science before criticizing others for their lack of knowledge.
ranchandsyrup
@shortstop: Sure, you opened your franchise in Suffragette City. Try it in Misogynyville.
shortstop
@quannlace:
Damn right. (But the male lions do always eat first. And they will hunt if no chick is around to do it for them.)
I find this theory of human male dominance particularly amusing when it’s espoused by guys who’d clearly keel over from MIs if they goutily attempted to do the original human “breadwinning,” i.e., procurement of food minus handy modern weaponry.
ChrisNYC
There is a good, which is to say extra appalling, picture of Erick at TPM. Is that terrible pig-eyed thing he and Scarborough both have related to the GOP or to Ga/Fla or both?
scav
Mea Wiki, but I like the image:
Haplophryne mollis (female, with atrophied male attached)
shortstop
@ranchandsyrup: It isn’t very pretty what that town without pity will do.
danimal
Perhaps conservatives can now back federally-funded social science research, as long as the research confirms Ericson’s biases.
Jackass.
Citizen_X
Dear Ewick: Science /= 19th century Victorian prejudices.
dmsilev
@Jay C:
Let’s fervently hope not.
ranchandsyrup
@shortstop: Yep. Exile in Guyville. But sisters be doin’ it for themselves.
gene108
@Luthe:
If you look at human history, it’s mostly women, who do the day-to-day stuff that keeps the family fed. They tended the crops, cook, etc. It’s only since the late Industrial Revolution that men became the sole bread winners and women “lazed” around at home.
Men hunted for meat and – like the male lions – made sure other men, from other tribes (pride, in lion’s case) did not attempt to loot and pillage their women.
Jay C
@catclub:
Well, look where that gets them! At least for red-tails, the most famous of them has lived to be 23 (! No one thought hawks could live that long) – and run through seven mates in the process: though some of them seem to have just run off….
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’d forgotten, he was shitcanned by CNN in their post-election purge?
Karen in GA (who really needs a better name)
What a
n insecure little wussRepublican.FTFMe.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Citizen_X:
He probably believes Phrenology is still the cutting edge of scientific rigor.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
There’s also a lot of evidence that being gay is not limited to western liberal homosapiens. Does Erick want to acknowledge that science as well?
joes527
Absolutely. Reduce their wages enough and they will self-deport. Problem solved.
Cassidy
@shortstop: Erik would keel over if actually confronted by the alpha male he fantisizes about being.
EconWatcher
Ah, more GOP outreach. Carry on, guys.
Roger Moore
@catclub:
Biology (actual biology, not the crap ibn Erick is spewing) shows that in species that depend on sexual reproduction, sex ratios tend toward 1:1 no matter the reproductive strategy. That means that for every big bull with a harem of 10 females, there are 9 loser males who sit around on the fringes and try to sneak in for a quickie with one of the females while the bull is otherwise occupied. I think I see Jonah’s position in the system.
SatanicPanic
Well if most animals do it is a good excuse I plan on crapping on Erick’s lawn.
Nerdlinger
@Jay C:
scav
Let us also consider the Clownfish:
same wiki-source, so as not to overwhelm their science-fu. This is certainly one way to break the glass-ceiling.
nancydarling
Not to mention the bonobos (Pan paniscus) where the old girls run the show. It’s not for nothing that their cousins who share the same genus are called Pan troglodyte.
belieber
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and bologna
Liquor and whores
I went down
Drinkin’ at the Legion
I met a girl she was nice
She was pretty and pleasing
She said “Hey boy
We should do some marrying”
I said sure but before we do
There’s something that you should know
I like
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and bologna
Liquor and whores…
Then one night down at the legion
She walked in, I was drunk on gin
Dancin with a lady friend
She said hey boy, You’d better fly the fuck home
I said no cause five little words I coulda
Swore I said to you
I like
Liquor and whores
Liquor and whores
Cigarettes and dope and mustard and bologna
Liquor and whores…
shortstop
@ranchandsyrup: Pipe down, doll, I’m voting over here.
OT, I cannot believe the number of Chicago “liberals” bitching about the president tying up traffic last night for his House fundraiser. Obama almost always takes Marine One from O’Hare to avoid bringing down the Kennedy Expressway. His copter (plus the fakeout second) often flies over my house on the nort’ side, then goes over the lake to avoid flying directly over the Loop, then cuts back over land on the sout’ side to land in Jackson Park.
So he very rarely messes up vehicular traffic and when he does he tries to do it for the shortest length of time/street possible, unlike some previous presidents and vice presidents I could name. Additionally, we need to win some House races next year, and Obama keynoting events is the best way to raise large coin here. But these people will not stop whining.
gnomedad
This word “science” you keep using …
Southern Beale
The only proof we need that Erick Erickson and his kind are anti-science is the fact that they keep spouting shit that is scientifically inaccurate.
But hey, when facts trump ideology, you know what wins: ideology. Always, always.
MattF
Are we now going to get a lecture from Erick on ‘shrinkage’? “It’s completely natural. Completely. Natural.”
shortstop
@MattF: Classic. He just got out of a cold pool.
J.W. Hamner
Kind of awesome how conservatives will always argue that the worst consequences of any cultural issue is white men being made to feel bad about themselves.
Heliopause
Actually, Erick, if you look at the natural world males of most species don’t contribute much to child-rearing beyond sperm. If the ideal is a male-female couple raising the young together then you do have many bird species as a good example, but then we should be feeding our kids insects and regurgitated fish.
Redshirt
Have you SEEN most male birds?! Flashy colors, elaborate dances, extensive nest building!
If we were to follow this natural model, RuPaul would be our masculine ideal.
Jane2
The GOP should propose mandatory hiring of all American males to bloviate on US cable news. Problem solved.
shortstop
@Redshirt: What if everyone turned gay, like birds?! The human race would die out!
Sorry, working on this IL marriage equality bill (please let today be the day) has put me too close too often to hysterical antigay folk.
Chris
Ah, that actually really depends on the animal, bro. I think you’d be hard-pressed to argue that these species of insects where the female actually eats the male are “male dominant” in any way. Hyena females don’t go that far, but are still stronger and bigger than the male. Killer whales and elephants are similarly matriarchal. Etc, etc, etc.
Next, please.
jl
@scav: Clownfish life sounds interesting. Except for the rigid hierarchy stuff, and no action for most of the poor clownfish.
As for the women breadwinners stuff, why on earth does anyone think this means that women are “winning’ and dominant, and this is good news for anybody?
Women still earn less on average than men doing the same job.
Men with lower education and in certain sectors (construction and manufacturing) got hammered much harder and have been unemployed longer than in previous recessions.
And what is the income level of these lucky ducky women? Are they raking in bucks stealing money in the big banking and finance industry?
And of course, in our current messed up society, being a sole bread winner of the family, whether man or woman, is just a peachy situation.
I’m not sure, but I think the statistic is more a results of our relatively crummy and weak economic recovery than anything else.
The main upside is that the stat gives EE an opportunity to spew bigoted gibberish, which he does well, and it is amusing, if you like black humor.
Shakezula
@Roger Moore: Yes. Getting kicked by an angry cow.
@Heliopause: And with birds where both parents rear the young, both parents usually contribute equally to feeding/protecting.
Nerdlinger
@Southern Beale: His line of reasoning is also fallacious.
Soonergrunt
It does not shock me that Erick SonofErick* said this. It shocks me that there’s a woman who actually fucks Erick SonofErick.
*h/t Tbogg
Shakezula
@shortstop: Go! Go! Go!
bemused
Oh, absolutely pay women less, much less and to guarantee the dominant natural order keep them barefoot and pregnant.
eric
@shortstop: where you be on the nort’ side?
fuckwit
Small. Fucking. Penis.
bemused
@Soonergrunt:
Exactly. These women are idiots.
fuckwit
Small. Fucking. Pen15.
(Also FYWP moderation)
jl
And, Erickson should study the seahorse.
Seahorses are cute. Erickson is cute (until he opens his mouth). It would be a good match.
And seahorses can’t open their mouths much. It could be a multidimensional learning experience for Erickson.
jeffreyw
Who amongst us would deny the role of Nature?
Redshirt
Factcheck ErickbinErick – more women graduate college today then men, and that’s been the case for a while, and will only continue to increase.
Or, to sum: Well, the world needs ditch diggers too.
NickT
@Redshirt:
Whaddaya mean, RuPaul isn’t your masculine ideal?!
Splitter!
Citizen_X
Needs moar Vincent Price:
Trollhattan
@Doug Milhous J:
If I find out The Clash covered a Mary Poppins song you have officially blown my mind, man.
Shinobi (@shinobi42)
It IS kindof bad that women are now the main breadwinners in so many households, because women don’t get paid as much. (Obviously I think it is fine from a social/moral/competitive bullshit standpoint. It just sucks that it is now probably these couples are making less money because of sexism.)
But hey, if he wants my male partner to be the breadwinner that’s fine with me, why don’t you give him an F-ing job Erik the Red?
Roger Moore
@Jay C:
Birds are very good evidence for the theory that it’s problems with the Y chromosome (and not having a spare X) that leads to men having a shorter average lifespan than women. Birds have W and Z chromosomes, rather than X and Y, so it’s males who have duplicated full size chromosomes and females who have one full and one vestigial chromosome. In their case, males tend to live longer.
Roger Moore
@Redshirt:
And lots and lots of singing to attract mates and mark their territory. I’m thinking that maybe Liberace is the ideal male in that system.
Anna in PDX
@dedc79: As usual, women are in a no-win situation here.
Higgs Boson's Mate
FWIW. In the late 60’s I signed a blank check to the gov for any amount up to and including my life. A couple of years later I volunteered to go to The Most God Awful Place Imaginable (Known as West Bumfuck at the time).
To prepare for this I was sent to a school at the amphibase at Coronado. Part of the school was survival. Some of the exercises involved being dropped off alone in nowhere for a few days with a knife of our choice, a lighter or matches, and a pack of cigarettes. They did give us a parachute for the piece where you survive along the ocean. Erickson would have been considered food once you cleaned up the residue of him having shat himself to death.
Roger Moore
@Shakezula:
Unfortunately, he has not taken after his namesake and been eaten by a whale.
Svensker
If the female role is complementary, then isn’t the male role complementary, as well?
I don’t get how this works.
How are these guys different from the Taliban, again?
shortstop
@eric: Nort’ Wrigleyville/sout’ Uptown. You?
JGabriel
Erik Erikson
You know, I don’t know any liberals who say being a single mother (or single father) is better than having two stable, loving parents in a stable, loving relationship.
What we say is: the reality for most people is not that ideal. And we should do our best through gov’t. programs to make sure that single parents and their children can still get food, health care, shelter, and a good education, to ameliorate the effects of poverty that often accompanies single parent families,
Since every Republican and Conservative disagrees, they have no business whining about the problems of single parenthood when they fucking refuse to spend the money or do anything to alleviate them.
More Erikson:
Hey, Erik. Who wears the most makeup in your famliy and who has the bigger gun? If the stereotypically traditional roles aren’t even maintained in the Erickson household, why should anyone listen to you whinge about other people not maintaining them?
Sounds kind of hypocritical to me, but I guess hypocrisy’s what Fox pays you for.
shortstop
@Trollhattan: On the rooftops of London..coo, what a white riot.
ETA: I’m rethinking this. I was going for a rhyme with “coo, what a sight.”
Roger Moore
@Svensker:
They’re here in America actively threatening our freedom.
JGabriel
Svensker:
One calls their Flying Spaghetti Monster Allah, the other calls her God.
Other than that, not much.
Edit to Add: Also, what Roger Moore said.
Comrade Dread
@scav:
Well, that will certainly make the Finding Nemo sequel a bit awkward, what with finding out that his dad turned into a girl and they’ll be mixing genetic material to carry on the school.
Shakezula
@Roger Moore: He got the being a whiny shit part down all right.
MomSense
I hate Erick, son of Erick and all his ilk. So as a mom supporting three sons, a dog, and two cats I would just like to say that this attitude is BS. I think he would be exhausted at the end of just one of my weeks and would not have the energy to “dominate”.
Grrrrrrr.
Chris
@Svensker:
I thought the same thing when I was reading about this El Salvador case of the woman being sentenced to death for the crime of pregnancy. (Then saw someone had beaten me to it).
gbear
@Cassidy: Maybe she blind-sided him with Science!!
scav
@Comrade Dread: But think of the tax and inheritance benefits now available to them!
eric
@shortstop: Lakeview….
Shinobi (@shinobi42)
@shortstop: I didn’t even notice last night. My commute back north was a breeze. … people
RedKitten
And people say feminism is no longer necessary. Sigh…
MomSense
O/T but it turns out McGrumpy may have posed with kidnappers in Syria.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/did-john-mccain-pose-with-two-known-kidnappers-in-syria/
EdTheRed
After filming the segment, Erick Son of Erick was confronted by a female coworker:
Coworker: Mr. Erickson, you are acting like a baby.
Erick Erickson: I’m not a baby, I am a man. I am an anchorman.
Coworker: You are not a man. You are a big fat joke.
Erick Erickson: I’m a man who discovered the wheel and built the Eiffel Tower out of metal and brawn. That’s what kind of man I am. You’re just a woman with a small brain. With a brain a third the size of us. It’s science.
Comrade Dread
Complementary relationships will vary between couples. A man may be career driven, willing to postpone his own latent personal goals or hobbies to achieve money or success, in which case, his ideal mate might be a wife who enjoys and has a passion for cooking and maintaining an orderly house.
Conversely, a man may have a passion for something less lucrative or less stable, or maybe he really wants to be involved with his kids and not spend 8-12 hours away from them every day, in which case, his complementary mate would be someone who enjoyed working and the day to day office activities/interactions, that allows him to pursue the things he’s truly passionate about without having to worry about eating from day to day.
Point being, human beings have formed mutually beneficial relationships since the dawn of time and it’s none of Mr. Erickson’s business if he happens to approve of their choices.
You want to do some good? Work towards making sure every employee gets paid a living wage, some paid sick leave and paid vacation, as well as more stable schedules, so more families can choose to spend time at home and get more involved in their children’s lives.
Suzanne
There’s always some jackass attempting to justify his shitty behavior by asserting that he’s “wired” to be a fuckhead.
dmsilev
Hold on, I think we’re all being unfair to Erick of the House of Erick. No less a eminent intellectual than Professor Newt Gingrich has pointed out essential differences between the sexes:
Shakezula
@Suzanne: That’s fine. I’m wired to give fuckheads a hard time. Silly me! (Tee hee).
I would also note that under the Republican Natural Model of Nature, mothers who find themselves without a male breadwinner due to death or divorce should drop everything and seek out a new mate in order to remain within the natural order of nature. Under no account though should they work. If the kids get hungry, send them to a friend’s house until the new male mate is secured.
Women who find themselves with a spouse who is permanently disabled should gather the entire family in the living room and serve everyone a steamy cup of hemlock.
Roger Moore
@Shakezula:
Couldn’t they serve the hemlock only to their disabled husband and then look for another man?
ranchandsyrup
There’s no downside for Erickkk. Every colossally moronic thing he says prompts a “Great job, you’re pissing off the *tolerant* liberals” response from the Cletus Chorus.
dmsilev
UPDATE: Erick ibn Erick has responded to his critics (warning: RedState link):
Just keep on fucking that chicken, Erick.
Citizen_X
Hey Erick: Here’s what a man (he used to command a goddam starship! And he supports victims of domestic violence) has to say, from his own harsh childhood experience, about all that macho dominatin’:
Julia Grey
Whut?
And hey, as long as we’re listing animals in which the female is dominant, meerkats (the Kalahari version of prairie dogs who were so popular on Animal Planet a few years ago) have a dominant female. She calls the shots. In fact, the filmmakers radio-tagged the female dominant in each “tribe” to keep track of where they went and when, because she did all the leading. She also was the only one who was supposed to breed. Occasionally one of her sisters would hook up with a wandering male and have a litter, but usually they were all driven out at the dominant female’s instigation.
(Her partner is the “dominant male” only by virtue of his partnership with her. When dominant female Flower died, her partner Zaphod left the tribe to become a rogue male living on his own…they often don’t last long.)
Fascinating little critters.
Brent
As many others have pointed out, Erickson has his “science” wrong here. Indeed, even on his own terms, he is engaging in a category error. But I would say that arguing with him on this level also misses the point to some extent. Human lives and human relationships are not science experiments. A respect for science is not the same as saying, we should live as animals do. Not just because it might be unpleasant but because conforming our desires to the behaviors of creatures in some other realm is no more natural or scientific than anything else. Its absurd that this even needs to be explained.
cokane
According to Richard Dawkins, the only consistent difference between male and female in the natural world is that one sex has larger gametes than the other. Does this mean that women are actually the dominant sex since they’re larger?
It’s also funny to me that the sex with the womb is considered the “complimentary” sex according to Erickson.
Tonal (visible) Crow
Please Republicans whatever you do don’t throw us in the women’s-lib-is-anti-science patch! We’ll die DIE DIE in there!
Julia Grey
Right. Someone should ask Erick: “So we should behave like animals? THEY are our ideal role models?”
Tonal (visible) Crow
@Svensker:
They don’t yet have as much power as the Taliban.
Villago Delenda Est
If Fucker von Fuckervitch were to be hit upside the head by Science with a Louisville Slugger, he still would not recognize it.
BTW, I encourage Science to do precisely that.
ruemara
@shortstop: Whining is a fine liberal tradition. Do not spite it.
I’m all for creating a reserve where Republican alpha males battle for dominance. Winner gets to mate with the harem of Michelle Malkin, K.Lo., & Ann Coulter. Fairly sure the resultant spawn will destroy any that survive.
LeeM
Obviously Eric the son of Eric hasn’t studied equine or big cat behavior (among many others) in his quest for enlightenment. In many animal groups, Males are good for protection from other males, but are not usually the top of the social order. Come to think of it, we primates are an example.
Calouste
@Svensker:
Well, there’s the beards and then there is, uh, there is…., uh, I’ll get back to you.
p
in animal kingdoms, the male doesn’t “bring home the bacon” then complain “the den is messy”, ignore the children, and go on the internet to watch porn or sit in front of the t.v. while he waits for his dinner…
NickT
I don’t think RickyRickson realizes what he’s just said. Which is probably true any given day of the week.
shortstop
@ruemara: I will spite it in this case. Talk about first-world problems. These privileged people need to pick their battles, and getting mad at Obama for adding a little time to their commute while he’s raising money to keep Democratic House seats ain’t a good one.
Elie
Have to add the Hyena to the list of matriarchal leadership structures in the animal kingdom. Males are totally subordinate and on the fringes of the pack, frequently abused and killed. Leadership of the pack goes from alpha female to her daughter — but its competitive and contested — among the females only. Hyenas are rough customers and do not play around.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Said Erickson: “I’m so used to liberals telling conservatives that they’re anti-science. But liberals who defend this and say it is not a bad thing are very anti-science. When you look at biology — when you look at the natural world — the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role. The female, it’s not antithesis, or it’s not competing, it’s a complementary role.”
Wow, this is guy has some real issues, doesn’t he?
Odie Hugh Manatee
Shorter EE: “Men go out and get their shoes muddy, women stay at home to clean his shoes.
I bet the first thing EE did when he bought his house was to go piss on a corner of it and then bay at the moon.
Jamie
Has Erik Managed to reproduce?
Herbal Infusion Bagger
Yep Erik Son of Eric. Let’s look at the clown fish, where the dominant sole breeding male becomes the female when the female in the colony dies.* How about that one? w
(* Which made ‘Finding Nemo’ rather disappointing scientifically. Nemo’s mum died? Nemo’s dad would become mum. But obviously adhering to accurate biological science for clown fish would have. Freaked. Jebusland. Out.)
Cassidy
A number of warrior societies were matriarchal.
Herbal Infusion Bagger
Sorry, didn’t see the clownfish reference earlier in the thread.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Erick is a real animal. Explains a lot about his political philosophy.
brantl
I’ve seen pictures of this asshole, he’d be lucky to be able to dominate a female tomato.