While the bar for boy birds is high, the bar for boy humans seems pretty low – as seen in a trend on TikTok where men are praised by women for doing … very little
A few nights ago I watched the Netflix nature documentary
Dancing with the Birds, about, you guessed it, Abraham Lincoln. Just kidding, it’s about dancing birds! This is why I get the big bucks. While watching the cute profiles of various bird species that all incorporate dance into their mating schemes, I cleverly noticed a running theme. In each case, when it came to the effort of courting and relationships, it was exclusively theWe know that male birds are often the more flashy and colourful, but these little guys also put in the physical and emotional labour, and none more so than the MacGregor’s bowerbird.
The MacGregor’s bowerbird featured in the documentary works for seven years on his bower, and builds a structure more than one metre tall, beautifully and specifically decorated with sap. It isn’t the end of the effort though – that is all just to entice his crush to come near, the first step in his plan. He then takes her through a meticulously planned series of events. He puffs out his colourful chest, impressing her with his plumage.
For example there’s a TikTok prank where women pretend they broke their boyfriend’s TV screen, and film their reaction when they run into the room. Time and again I have seen the same response in the comments – if the man does not violently flip out and punch a wall, he gets an unbelievable amount of praise. The bar for boy birds is so high, and the bar for boy humans is so low.
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