Why are girls afraid of spiders?
It’s so illogical. Is a tiny, less-than-one-gram predator a threat to you? I don’t think so. The real predators are the international banks, the weapons manufacturers, the other conniving humans who want to take everything you have. Whatever—at least it gives me an opportunity to appear brave and kind to you when I let it crawl onto a piece of paper and take it outside.
It’s so illogical. Is a tiny, less-than-one-gram predator a threat to you? I don’t think so. The real predators are the international banks, the weapons manufacturers, the other conniving humans who want to take everything you have. Whatever—at least it gives me an opportunity to appear brave and kind to you when I let it crawl onto a piece of paper and take it outside.
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PrimarilyParamore*
8 years ago
fears aren't rational
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Raxin
8 years ago
I guess that's the answer. I sometimes fear change, which is also completely illogical, since change is the only way I've ever gotten anything done, and change is the only way anything ever happens.
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PrimarilyParamore*
8 years ago
Yeah, I think how people deal with their fears is more important than what they are scared if
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Witty Wittian *
8 years ago
I agree with smol. Besides, one tiny spider by its own self, creeping around your bedroom and over your shoes and in their webs on your windowsills, can kill you with more ease than a knife.
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Raxin
8 years ago
I don't know about that. Death by spider has to be a lot less frequent than death by knife. Sure, exercise caution when relocating black widows, but to freak out about something you outweigh a few million times that can't outrun your shoe is kind of funny.
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celestialerror*
8 years ago
girls aren't the only one afraid of spiders. there was a study done, and anthropologists showed pictures of snakes and spiders to indigenous people who have never seen them before, and they were freaked out. it's programmed into our (our being human, not females) brains to be afraid of spiders and snakes.
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Raxin
8 years ago
OK, so substitute "some people" for "girls" and it's still illogical. I'm trying to think of where indigenous people live but neither snakes nor spiders do. It's not Brazil. It's not Australia. The Tlingit word "asgutuyiksháa" means spider, so I don't think you're talking about them.
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