Comments on: Angler Fish, Feminist Icon

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:35:43 +0000

But at least the male is dependent on the female, and not the other way around. We feminists strive for our independence!

By: Michael Price

Michael Price — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:24:23 +0000

But it’s not a castrating fish, the only thing left is the gonads. In fact what we see here is a male fish doing absolutely no work but spewing out sperm in return for a female fish providing everything he needs. Not exactly a feminist image.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:25:38 +0000

To 10G,

Your entitled to your opinion, but I would hardly call myself a woman hater. I treat my girlfriends very well. I enjoy their company and vice versa. Actually, the only time any one of them are complaining is when I don’t have enough free time. Between work and school, my time is rather limited. So they don’t like it when I can’t spend time with them. BTW, I am not lying to any of them, they all know I date multiple women. Apparently, they are all fine with it and so am I.

Also, I was merely pointing out that the angler fish is disgusting.

By: Aileenwuornos

Aileenwuornos — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:27:08 +0000

Those fish scare the shit out of me.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:06:24 +0000

How is this the icon of feminism again? (please answer without appealing to stereotypes)

It’s a joke.

By: lj

lj — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:00:10 +0000

How is this the icon of feminism again? (please answer without appealing to stereotypes)

By: Maria P.

Maria P. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:12:12 +0000

I love telling guys about this. “Yep, you be glad we’re not anglerfish or you’d be nothing but a shred of extra DNA clipped onto a female.”

Sorry, anglerfish dudes. No male subjectivity for you. Your biology is your destiny.

(And isn’t it great that our fishy icon is so awesome looking? Now I want one of those anglerfish t-shirts too!)

By: Torri

Torri — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:51:23 +0000

I remember first learning this on one of those ‘weird nature’ programs, at the time I was very disturbed, when I was little the look of these guys freaked me out and the sheer body-horror of this new revelation was nightmare-inducing.
I still think Angler fish are totally awesome though XD

By: xxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxx — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:31:59 +0000

I’ll think of this every time I have to re-watch “Nemo”.

By: AL

AL — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 00:45:05 +0000

I know what I’m being for halloween…