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Fascinating how what's considered feminine and what's considered masculine can change over time. The rebranding of being a horse girl into being a stereotypical feminine girly trait needs to be studied.

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Look at classic children's novels. As recently as the 50s and early 60s, being obsessed with horses as a girl was depicted as strange and tomboyish, and the very concept of being obsessed with horses from early childhood and loving toy horses and desperately wanting your own horse being a "little girl thing" and not a "little boy thing" would send someone from the 1800s and earlier into a coma.

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There's maybe a point to be made here somewhere about how when keeping and riding horses stopped being necessary to the functioning of society and became a more "frivolous" thing, it was rapidly rebranded as silly and girly and for women, but what do I know.

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i wrote a paper in my masculinity studies class in college about this exact phenomenon, specifically about how high heeled shoes started as a practical way for Persian cavalry to keep their feet on their stirrups, then likely due to that association, became a popular fashion item and status symbol among the upper classes of Europe, before the Great Male Renunciation of the 18th-19th centuries, when men started shunning opulence in favor of utility, leaving them as a fashion item for women instead.

I've joked that the two genders are Aesthetic and Utility before but thats just kinda the case

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*RIPS OFF SHIRT* RAUUUGH New shark just dropped!!! Pride month shark everyone LETS FUCKING GO

A night dive off Papua New Guinea to study wild sharks that can walk on land has surfaced with something even more rare – a species un

LOOK AT EM!! This little guy makes turns the total number of walking sharks from a odd number to an even number - that's right, there's now 10 species of walking sharks!! This one's called the officially Dudgeon walking shark, but it's local name is the kadedekedewa, and its found in Papua New Guinea! Little guy can be differentiated from other walking sharks by the spot pattern on its side (white dashes instead of normal rosettes or dots) but also by genetic testing!! News of him was released in a review of walking sharks two days ago, and look at this picture from the review!!

A very polite little guy, as you can tell. And you can see the dashes down his body very easily in this picture! The review also took a closer look at some of the other walking shark species in the area, and discovered new populations of previously existing species, but also expanded the range of some walking sharks as well! Check it out, it's a pretty neat study.

Walking sharks (Hemiscyllium) comprise 9 morphologically similar species whose identification relies on distinctive color patterns, genetic

There's also potential for cryptic species complexes or hybridization in these areas, which is like - some of the COOLEST Stuff ever. Sharks are so cool man. Read the review. Lots of super neat stuff in there!! Happy pride, Dudgeon’s Walking Shark!