Cuddly gerbils
from ickplant@lemmy.world to science_memes@mander.xyz on 12 Oct 00:20
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ickplant@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 00:21 next collapse

Study in question: news.emory.edu/stories/2022/08/…/story.html

Zkuld@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 07:29 collapse
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 00:25 next collapse

Looks like a Rodentdendron.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 00:26 next collapse

Then why is there an odd number of gerbils?

SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 00:33 next collapse

Pepper couldn’t make the shoot.

OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today on 12 Oct 05:11 next collapse

Someone had to take the picture!

ryedaft@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 08:43 collapse

Because you are bad at counting. There’s one more at the very end, behind the branch. You can only see an eye and an ear.

ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works on 12 Oct 15:13 collapse

You’re right!

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 12 Oct 01:39 next collapse

Testosterone makes the boys more cuddly? Explains a lot.

0x0@infosec.pub on 12 Oct 02:22 next collapse

Roid rage is mostly a myth when it comes to regular T

FerretyFever0@fedia.io on 12 Oct 03:02 next collapse

I know, just didn't realize it could potentially be the opposite.

FoxyGrandpa@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 03:35 collapse

Testosterone doesn’t create, it exacerbates. So the cuddly becomes more cuddly

QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works on 13 Oct 05:01 collapse

i have tried both testosterone and estrogen (trans). Testosterone rage is definitely real and so is estrogen mood swings. It’s not like the movies though, moreso you can’t solve a puzzle so you ragequit and just are really pissed off sulking on the couch.
Same thing happens no matter the hormones but it’s WAY less common to me on E.

estrogen will make you cry over a pidgin because it walks cute. I genuinely can’t describe it.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 15:39 collapse

The gym makes so much more sense now.

Mobiuthuselah@mander.xyz on 12 Oct 04:27 next collapse

I can think of one male friend who prefers handshakes, but the rest, we all hug at each greeting and parting and regularly tell each other we love one another.

We don’t really cuddle all that often though.

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 15:39 collapse

Sounds like maybe you’re too much of a pussy to cuddle your boys?

Septimaeus@infosec.pub on 12 Oct 10:09 next collapse

Welcome to Gerbil Orgy. We just begin cuddle puddle. You will join?

ivanafterall@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 15:38 collapse
tomenzgg@midwest.social on 12 Oct 10:23 next collapse

Pair-bonded? This is just what we in the field of Gender Studies call homosocial.

Just in Case

/s

This2ShallPass@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 12:32 next collapse

What testosterone really does is when your status is being challenged, testosterone makes you do whatever you need to do to maintain status. You can have an economic game where people get status by making generous offers and give people testosterone and they become more generous in the game. In other words, if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.

Testosterone doesn’t make you aggressive

redchert@lemmygrad.ml on 13 Oct 07:35 collapse

if you shot up a whole bunch of Buddhist monks with testosterone, they would run amok doing random acts of kindness all over the place.

Thats a very mystical view of buddhism.

RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 16:00 next collapse

…and they also looked like gerbils?

Godric@lemmy.world on 12 Oct 17:20 next collapse

I get it, I too am filled with immense rage and could use a hug, it checks out!

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today on 12 Oct 17:30 collapse

I envy these creatures, they get to cuddle all the time, and not worry about someone overthinking it.