I read it, my jaw sagging in astonishment, jotting down favourite parts to send to friends and reading out snippets gleefully to my male housemates for days. “Female animals,” she writes, “are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive, dominant and dynamic as males.”īitch is a blast. There is plenty more of that in her new book, Bitch: A Revolutionary Guide to Sex, Evolution & the Female Animal, a dazzling, funny and elegantly angry demolition of our preconceptions about female behaviour and sex in the animal kingdom (queendom?).įemale animals are just as promiscuous, competitive, aggressive, dominant and dynamic as males Lucy Cookeįor too long, Cooke argues, we have uncritically accepted a view of nature “through a Victorian pinhole camera” and worse, those misconceptions have been co-opted by ideologues “to claim that a host of grim male behaviours – from rape to compulsive skirt-chasing to male supremacy – were only natural for humans because Darwin said so.” That is simply, demonstrably wrong, as she outlines, combining colourful revelations with limpidly clear explanations of complex science. ![]() This is a very Lucy Cooke observation: uncensored, pithily expressed and startlingly informative. ![]() “I didn’t realise that the majority of spiders are sexual cannibals, that the big spiders in the middle of webs were always female males are basically wandering useless sacks of sperm,” Cooke says loudly in earshot of several harried-looking human fathers. We can: a gorgeously colourful golden orb weaver sits in the centre of her vast gold-tinted web, 125 times bigger than her tiny mate. “Let’s see if we can see a big predatory female,” she says. ✨✨✨✨ 4x Kickstarter Exclusive Sparkling Sun Dress (Cosmetic)īecome a work of art with a personalized pixel art portrait of yourself.L ondon Zoo at half-term is a cheerful cacophony with blue macaws out-screaming six-year-olds, but in the relative calm of the lush spider “walkthrough” exhibit (apologies, arachnophobes), Lucy Cooke is happily absorbed. ✨✨✨✨ 4x Kickstarter Exclusive Sparkling Sun Armor (Cosmetic) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4x Exclusive In-Game Hat (for you & 3 friends) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4x Exclusive Pet Baby Tiger (for you & 3 friends) ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4x Exclusive Pet Baby Dragon (for you & 3 friends) ⛪ Personal GOLD Sun Haven Founder Plaque with Your Name ▶ Record Player & Custom Song for your Character Start the game with a record player that already has your custom song on it- It can play other in-game tracks too! Includes: ⭐ Digital Art Collection of all 16 Romance-able CharactersĪ legendary hero like you deserves a theme song! Sun Haven's Sound Designer will compose a song for you, which will go in the game for all to hear! ⭐⭐ 2x Kickstarter Exclusive In-Game Hat (for you & a friend) ⭐⭐ 2x Kickstarter Exclusive Pet Baby Tiger (for you & a friend) ⭐⭐ 2x Kickstarter Exclusive Pet Baby Dragon (for you & a friend) ✨✨ 2x Kickstarter Exclusive Sparkling Sun Dress (Cosmetic) ✨✨ 2x Kickstarter Exclusive Sparkling Sun Armor (Cosmetic) ⛪ Personal BRONZE Sun Haven Founder Plaque with Your Name Preview them on the Kickstarter page!) Includes: ![]() (Cosmetic items are equippable by all player types and races & are wearable over all stat-granting equipment. ✨Sparkling Sun Dress for your night on the town! ✨Animated Glowing Sun Armor for daily adventuring! Receive an individual ⛪Bronze Founder Plaque⛪ in the town hall with only YOUR name on it, an HD wallpaper, and Kickstarter EXCLUSIVE cosmetics:
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