Perrin Ireland

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How to Be a Better Human · Why should you care about animal sex? (w/ Perrin Ireland) · 3 Aug 2026 podcast

And I laugh, but it's really bleak.

And I do think that the lack of information about what it is that different animals want, what their anatomy is, what they're in pursuit of, has direct repercussions on the lives that different individuals are allowed to live.

I was deep into my tenure at NRDC.

I think I'd been there nine years.

And my manager said to me, we were traveling and there were these electrical cords.

And he said to me, can you hand me the female part?

And I was like, are you sexually harassing me?

That's disgusting.

And this is like a very polite person.

And it was my first time learning that with electrical equipment, they talk about a male part and a female part.

And we ascribe like being penetrated and being entered as a female quality.

And there are some great examples in nature that absolutely defy that.

And yes, I love so much.

This space station where Russia and the U.S., neither of them wanted to be the female part.

And so they created this androgynous system so that both of the space stations could identify as male.

Yeah, to be penetrated.

We are ascribing value to these things when we do that.

And so we have to watch how we do that through science and animals because we generate these feedback loops of the stories we tell and what bodies are worth studying and what aren't as a result.

Yes.

So Dr. Eileen Hebbets, who I heard on a podcast in her graduate work as she was studying spiders, starting to identify that she had what she would call, because she's a scientist, a phenotype of people she was attracted to.

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