• Supervisor194@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I don’t think they sound particularly like a human baby because I can’t stand the sound of a human baby crying but when my cat talks I melt into a useless gibbering idiot food dispenser.

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah it’s one of those internet myths. What they do is mimic their own baby sounds aka meow even when they’re adults but that’s not really a manipulation tactic. We infantilize them by caring for them and they in turn display some of their infant behaviours. Adult tigers in captivity meow too.

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        21 hours ago

        Worse than that, it’s something incels tell each other about why women aren’t having babies. Because they have cats that satisfy the maternal urge.

        For the record, babies crying- doesn’t matter if I’ve given birth to it or not- is not a “cute” sound. It is an enraging sound. It makes us move quickly because we hate it.

        If we thought baby cries were cute things we wanted to listen to, we wouldn’t hurry to help the child, and that would completely defeat the purpose of it.