Chris Trottier
myrmepropagandistI'm not going to be popular for this... but neither.
Both commit the cardinal sin of making half the worker ants male, rather than making male alate characters. It's petty but that drove me nuts even as a kid.
ProtectiveHen@futurebird @atomicpoet TOTALLY agree re how annoying this is!! I see the same thing in popular/cartoon depictions of bees - such an obvious fact to overlook.
"But how could you make a whole movie where there aren't any boys and men in it? Who would be the main character if they are all women?"
@futurebird @bok_bok_ba_gok I mean, the life of a drone ant seems like one hell of an amazing plot for a movie.
David Colarusso@futurebird @atomicpoet @bok_bok_ba_gok I'm reminded of Laline Paull’s The Bees. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/books/review/the-bees-by-laline-paull.html
Rabbi Nathan Farb@futurebird @atomicpoet @bok_bok_ba_gok
I wish I could recall the name, but there is a wonderful nonfiction book I remember reading when I was young that is written in the first person from the ant's perspective. I think it follows five or six different types of ants, and there was maybe an introduction for each. I'm likely misremembering it a bit, but I remember reading it over and over. It was as compelling as any YA fiction I was reading at the time.
I wish I could recall the name, but there is a wonderful nonfiction book I remember reading when I was young that is written in the first person from the ant's perspective. I think it follows five or six different types of ants, and there was maybe an introduction for each. I'm likely misremembering it a bit, but I remember reading it over and over. It was as compelling as any YA fiction I was reading at the time.