• calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 天前

      Makes it easier to attract sailors though. You don’t need to move fast if food just comes towards you.

    • vagrancyand@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 天前

      Fat is less dense than water, so while it would hinder swimming it would also benefit floating for longer periods of time with less effort.

      If we assume Mermaids are indeed air-breathing amphibians this would provide an evolutionary advantage inline with most ambush predators. Their mythology encourages that characterization well ­— i.e. they wait for passing ships and lure sailors into the water or encourage fishermen to ‘catch’ them before eating them. One would imagine like a snake or lizard or indeed like many predators of the ocean the goal would then be to preserve calories as much as possible. Therefore floating at or near the surface for easy breathing, heat management, and to encourage their chosen prey to spot them so they can start their ambush is better than being able to swim quickly.

    • deft@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      3·
      2 天前

      Definitely.

      Source; otters ain’t got titties and neither do platypus. They have nipples but not titties.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      45·
      3 天前

      It’s truly sad considering how much work was done in the 60s and 70s to break through the boorish puritanical sexual repression which has infected western since the end of the roman empire.

      Sexual liberation became commodities as a consumer good in the 1980s.

    • ruuster13@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      3 天前

      In the 80s my father was a Mormon missionary in Sweden. He always talks about the day he walked through a park and saw a woman sunbathing topless. Rest assured he had dreams of all temperatures that night.

  • wrinkle2409@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    631·
    3 天前

    As we know no actual women have large breasts and the ones who do are inherently pornographic /s

    I hate the world and I hope society collapses soon

    • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
      413·
      2 天前

      But as we also know many women who are sick of being sexualised and sexually harrassed, maybe not having statues of naked women all over the place would be a respectful thing for society to consider?

      I’m with you on that last bit though.

      • nerv@fedinsfw.appEnglish
        13·
        2 天前

        The problem isn’t “naked” statues.

        The problem is a society that views sex, sexuality and, by extent, any show of body as harmful.

        Sexual harrassement is a separate issue and it is rooted much deeper into social precepts, in my understanding.

        • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
          22·
          2 天前

          Viewing women as decorative sexualised objects is harmful and promotes sexual harrassment.

          Having a bunch of statues around of naked women, promotes what perceptions?

          • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
            6·
            2 天前

            I propose we make more naked statues of not just women, but men as well. Hell let’s so some intersex ones as well. Of course keep the women ones too

            • ᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.socialEnglish
              12·
              2 天前

              It’s a nice thought but the power imbalance is still too great for this not to have a negative impact.

              The bodies of women, intersex and trans folk are not considered neutral, so displaying them as naked statues doesn’t and isn’t going to illicit neutral responses from people.

              One day maybe though, in an ideal world.

              • Zetta@mander.xyzEnglish
                11·
                1 天前

                🤨 I’d get aroused at some femboy statues, equally aroused. So totally neutral in a way

          • nerv@fedinsfw.appEnglish
            3·
            2 天前

            Art, in every single iteration it has, always tried to elevate civilization and thought.

            The Venus of Willendorf, although crude, is perhaps the earliest representation of a feminine figure, most probably a fertility goddess. There is no way to avoid pointing how potentially sexualized the sculpture is/was yet the first considered theory on it points not to an objectified woman-figure but to a superior entity materially embodied in every single woman in existence.

            If such a concept does no service to empower women, none does.

            In the same line of thought, after that statuette, many other representations of women have been created that do not reduce the woman but instead elevates her. It’s the culture surrounding those representations that - including the present day one - try to label such images as negative.

            People often overlook the message. Or ignore it for immediate satisfaction.

            I remember reading an article on a bromze statue of a fishmonger woman, in Ireland, if memory serves me well, where the woman os seen pushing her cart along the street, with a very low cut breast dress, which almost exposes her breasts. For some reason, it took on an urban legend that stroking the statues breasts brought good luck and tourists - of all people - made it a thing to do. The local counsel, very disturbed, tried to remove the statue arguing maintenance, then echoing the complaints of citizen groups that argued the statue shed bad light on the town’s image. It took historians to explain why the statue was as it was, down to period clothing and even child care!

            The statue had stood in its place for decades with no ill coming its way until puritans decided they had to be bothered on behalf of others. That alone should tell us a good deal.

            Maybe we should bring back Egyptian and Greek classical statuary. Naked people, half human/half animal representations, ambiguous sexuality and morphology… Force the dialogue a bit.

  • ruuster13@lemmy.zipEnglish
    11·
    3 天前

    In northern Europe they’re called hot dreams. In warmer/drier climates we call them wet dreams. In Russia they fantasize about warm water ports.