Mary Worth, 6/2/25

Did you know that the psychological "fight or flight" response is more accurately called "fight, flight, freeze, or fawn"? I think it comes as no surprise to those of us who (sadly) know them all too well that the Westons, having belatedly realized that they are in the presence of an apex predator, have gone the "freeze" route, hoping that if they sit very still and offer the most weaksauce and unrealistic excuses for not eating mushrooms imaginable, she'll lose interest and wander off. The really sad thing is that the extremely on the nose Fatal Attraction reference is lost on Wilbur and Dawn, since they're both philistines whose media diets consist of watching old Evander Holyfield fights on YouTube and "clean eating" influencer content on TikTok that comes right up to the edge of promoting anorexia without violating the terms of service, respectively.

Intelligent Life, 6/2/25