>>35678832Except that's completely inaccurate on multiple levels.
In nature these types often fill a void that needs to be filled. Taking care of orphaned young, providing release when there are no possible mates which with some animals can genuinely be a matter of life and death, or in some cases literally switching sexes to reproduce.
Now, let's argue that it WASN'T absolute bullshit pulled out from a fifth grade biology textbook for the sake of you not bothering to do actual research. You're focusing on evolutionary traits like it's this flawless thing. It's really not. It's why we still have tailbones and an appendix, and hairs that stick on end to try to seem bigger to predators when we're scared. You're talking about a basic evolutionary trait who's function served when we were still underpopulated and still needed to breed to survive. We're pretty good on the population count, and current research shows that mentally we're diverging from that more and more very much because said primal instincts are no longer necessary, making your example kind of irrelevant.
BUT, let's further argue your head isn't up your own ass just for funsies, because your comparison gets even dumber when you realize you've met more than one person. There's no default human mentality. One of the things that make us top of the food chain is our ability to adapt and not be ruled by primal instinct. That's why shit like The Stepford Wives or Invasion of The Body Snatchers, because there IS no "normal" human behavior and attempts to create them are ususally unnerving because it's so unnatural. Going further with your previous half-assed comparison though, when you look at the higher functioning brains in the animal kingdom you start to see more divergence in sex and gender. Gay chimp parents, transgender dolphins, etc. (granted, they're also some of the only other animals to indulge in killing for fun, but that's another topic altogether).
