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#just think   #when this gifset first passed my dash   #however long ago that was   #I didn’t even recognize the name Elon Musk   #what I wouldn’t give to return to that innocence

I've seen posts going around claiming that petting animals is basically tricking them into thinking they're being groomed, and it's bugging me because, like, there's no trickery afoot. Petting and scritching are grooming activities. They help to dislodge loose fur and foreign objects and more evenly distribute protective oils, among other things. Primates are social groomers, and the human impulse to scritch is the legacy of our primate ancestors. We see an animal we like, even a dangerous one, and the monkey brain says "groom that thing".

“Yes, the weather is bad. There’ve been only two fine days and one fine night.”

People would call them ‘close friends’.

Sexual orientation is almost one of the biggest self-identifications of straight people. When I was a kid (especially as an Asian little girl), people around me always made me ‘your future husband’-like jokes, and everyone took it for granted. Why did nobody think there was something weird about it?! And where the hell was those people so-called ‘worried about children’s misunderstanding of themselves’?!

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