Self-Winding Doll

Many have noted that Taylor's power allows her a "perfect" view of fights. Through her bugs, Taylor gains a kind of weak omniscience. This way, her first person narration becomes, in turn, a kind of weak omniscient third person.

But this, too, is a facet of her trauma response. Her bugs allow her to escape the pain of her human body, but such a tactic has lasting consequences for her mental well-being. She loses the ability to easily move between this bird's-eye view of life and a more personal view, centered around her own body. She can multitask impeccably, she can forgo food and sleep with ease (to the point of being dangerously underweight), but she cannot locate her own ego within her human body.

And this pathology finds its formal counterpart in the kind of numb distance of Taylor's first person narration, where her own thoughts must struggle to burst in at the edges via the intervention of italics.

This wreaks havoc in her interpersonal relationships, as can be seen in her awkwardness with Brian. She cannot process something so deeply centralized within the body as sexuality, and so the banal embarrassment of a crush is rendered in a dull, distant first person--as though she is describing someone else entirely. The sex act itself, therefore, cannot be articulated at all, hence the total absence of it from her thoughts.

Apparently if you put a red band on a male red wing blackbird his harem size can double

Previously when the researchers had run these tests, they found a certain amount of infidelity was common for these birds. Somewhere around 10% of eggs were fathered by males who were not the primary mates of females.

After the advent of the Super Sexy Male, however, stuff got crazy in bird world. Infidelity skyrocketed, with upwards of 25% of ALL EGGS in the area being fathered by this specific male. Furthermore, his mate’s eggs were 100% his.