I read this - what a fantastic project. One of the fake studies was hilarious - they said they found evidence of “rape culture” in urban Portland dog parks - because people intervened 90% of the time when male dogs were humping other males, but only 30% of the times when male dogs were raping/humping females.
The authors conceded that, being human and not dogs, it was difficult to discern when the dogs where having consensual sex versus rape.
In “Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity at Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Ore.,” by “Helen Wilson,” one of their made-up researcher names, the study purported to observe dogs having sex, and how their owners reacted, to draw conclusions about humans’ sexual attitudes.
Humans intervened 97 percent of the time when male dogs were “raping/humping” other male dogs, the paper said. But when a male dog was mating with a female, humans intervened only 32 percent of the time and actually laughed out loud 18 percent of the time.
The paper’s author cautioned: “Because of my own situatedness as a human, rather than as a dog, I recognize my limitations in being able to determine when an incidence of dog humping qualifies as rape.”
Crappy article.
Not a current event per se.
Reinforces how lucky we are to have won the lottery of birth.
Most of us now have smart phones and flushing toilets.
interesting - I was just reading somewhere that scientists believe cannabinoids evolved as a defense to make herbivore animals forget where the plants were! so it didn’t matter if they ate some cannabis, they would never find their way back again.
this is crazy…southern New Hampshire is experiencing mega-death of squirrels -a friend of mine said she drove Route 101 a couple days ago and both sides were lined with dead squirrels for miles
I only skimmed the squirrelpocalypse story but still managed to hear the banjo.
Mmm…
I should chide myself now for mocking appalachian poverty(this parts serios-- fuck me) & hunger & go back to looking at @Worcestershire_Farms pizza & foccaccia display. ‘Cuz it’s makin’ me hawngry.
don’t knock it till you’ve tried it right? My father grew up in Appalachia and has eaten just about every animal that walks in the woods, squirrels are just the appetizer.
My father grew up in Appalachia and has eaten just about every animal that walks in the woods, squirrels are just the appetizer. 
