Inyash Brodsky

I was thinking of the typical mind fallacy.

You did that right.

But I kind of have my doubts.

Like, obviously, I didn't meet those authors or cover artists or whoever it was.

So I can't interview them and ask them.

But like, that is such a...

Maybe I'm typical minding again here by saying that is so dumb that no one could actually think that.

I am more of the opinion that the sexy lady on the cover is there for the benefit of the viewer, the audience.

They know that a human male is going to be looking at this.

And so, like, the alien probably just grabbing the closest human they can.

They're like, that human looks tasty.

I'm going to run off with it.

In this particular instance, the closest human was a woman with a torn dress.

And in the male viewer, that invokes more feelings of outrage and protectiveness than if it was like a guy or something.

And so that's why that alien taking that person was chosen as the cover.

But I don't think that the person who made the cover was thinking the alien thinks that she's sexy and the alien grabbed her specifically because she's sexy and it's going to ravish her.

It's just the human that the alien happened to grab.

In this post, I think Eliezer is specifically saying that the alien is presumed to find the woman sexy as well.

Because he comments that oddly enough, the aliens never go after men in torn shirts.

He does quote that the person making the cover would probably think, therefore, a bug-eyed monster will find human females attractive.