Immediately stomp an insect when they see one inside the house. It's like a reflex or impulse and honestly it's kinda scary seeing an otherwise nice person just stomp an insect or spider or whatever in cold blood almost instantaneously. There's like no thought or contemplation, it's just see the insect, and then immediately stomp it.

Like holy shit what did that little critter do to you? Just let it be.

EDIT: Holy fuck the responses. I guess many didn't actually read what I wrote. I wrote that people who "immediately stomp" without "thought or contemplation" have fash tendencies and I get accused of fashjacketing. Ugh whatever. To those who had thoughtful responses (e.g. if you feel something stinging your skin and swat it with your hand, or if you have an infestation issue in your house, etc.), I gotta say those make sense and I hear you all the way (and even in those cases it's not like there's a kneejerk intentional kill response, it's usually accidental or done after careful deliberation). But to the ones complaining about fashjacketing, maybe do some self crit for fuck's sake. You sound exactly like the fucking man vs bear defender types or a white fragility type, Jesus... It makes me actually think you do have fash tendencies tbh.

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[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I dunno. I live in an area with a decent amount of black widow spiders and if it wasn't for the fact that I owned a tarantula as a kid (it was a weird empowering thing that actually got me over fear of spiders, don't judge) I'd probably be way more KoS with spiders. Like, people have deep rooted fears that are based on actual dangers (and who knows how much of that is rooted in some kind of genetic understanding).

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago

Just had a random find memory of helping bar cats get at cockroaches when doing work holiday in a tropical area. Very random. No regrets.

[–] muslimmarxist@hexbear.net 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Like, people have deep rooted fears that are based on actual dangers (and who knows how much of that is rooted in some kind of genetic understanding).

Careful, that's some very hitler-detector reasoning

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Wtf are you on about? They clearly meant in the sense that we have evolved to think spiders are creepy/scary. This feels like you're baiting, or if not that, you're habitually interpreting people's words in the worst possible light.

[–] muslimmarxist@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They clearly meant in the sense that we have evolved to think spiders are creepy/scary.

Using the "evo science" logic, then we are also afraid of strangers, so that reasoning is often used against the "other" so no, it's not baiting but based on actual atrocities committed against those that were seen as "scary." Please don't minimize that.

[–] FumpyAer@hexbear.net 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's a wild jump to conclusions. You're painting an entire field of science as fascist.

There are legitimate criticisms of evolutionary psychology, but it's not fully discredited like eugenics is.

Claiming that there is a natural tendency towards fear of certain other categories of species is not necessarily biological essentialism. It's a tendency that can be overcome with mindfulness, which is not the same as biological essentialism. But a lack of mindfulness isn't that big a red flag on its own.

You can definitely argue for the above without also thinking that racism is inborn or "natural."

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

I also live in an area with black widows and actually had part of my face rot from a brown recluse bite. Spiders aren’t scary. I understand many people have an irrational fear of them, but it is just that, irrational.