Jul 7
hey man… you do realize female turtles are bigger and. Raph is the shortest in your family. And you are the tallest.?. If you lived in a society of (only) turtles..eh…you’d be called a girl every day of ur life and most people wouldn’t believe you if you said you were a male.. just a fun fact.
-a fellow turtle of science
Our humanoid mutuation makes our sexual dimorphism more aligned with that of humans, hence Raph's minuscule stature. Though you bring up an interesting point, the humanoid elements of our secondary sex characteristics conflict with our evolutionary notions of how our sex should appear externally. Perhaps that is the origin of our shared... confusion... around gender. Interesting. I shall continue to look into this...