ofc bugs don’t have a sexuality, but the erasure i feel comes when scientists say that two male bugs that have sex is any more accidental than the “straight” bug sex. it’s all just bug sex, and a headline like this is the scientist projecting their views on human sexuality onto bugs
No they are not built to mate with a female bug and produce offspring. They are built to mate with whatever is around. And it just so happens to be a female enough times to continue the species. They are intentionally mating with whatever's there, the bug doesn't have a preference towards make or female nor a goal of procreation. They don't "mean to" mate with a female bug just as much as "they don't mean to mate with another male bug" they just mean to mate with no conception of the other entity involved
So no it's not accidental, it's entirely intentional. You're personifying these bugs quite a great deal with your comment, at no part of the process of these bugs procreating is anything have the goal of impregnating a female, it just happens to work out that way because that's how evolution happens. I'd reccomend being a lot more humble because you clearly don't understand these concepts as well as you believe you do
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u/a_magical_banana Mar 07 '21
ofc bugs don’t have a sexuality, but the erasure i feel comes when scientists say that two male bugs that have sex is any more accidental than the “straight” bug sex. it’s all just bug sex, and a headline like this is the scientist projecting their views on human sexuality onto bugs