Watching Ants Carry Food: A Questionable Form of Entertainment

It’s fun watching ants carry food across the kitchen floor. Except that’s disgusting. So, let’s say it’s outside.

But they’re strong creatures. Ants carry food 10 to 20 times their body weight. For heavier food, they team up. (And there’s a lot of them: the combined weight of all ants on earth is greater than the combined weight of all humans). 

But it’s a funny thing to watch. Sort of like watching a small child carry a big, empty cardboard box over his head.

Still, a healthy form of entertainment? That’s debatable. Let’s say 45 seconds worth of fun (a minute and a half if he’s carrying pet food and your cat looks offended)

But any longer, that’s questionable—you might need a degree in Myrmecology.

Questionable Forms of Entertainment: Female Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding.

Anything more self-deprecating?

Case in point: Mother Nature hates it so much She shrinks the participant’s reproductive organs.

Yet, the sport(?) keeps growing. And shrinking. 

Men have the excuse–the societal indoctrination to be big, to be strong. (But how do you fight without arms?). It get confusing with women. 

The first female ”body building” competition wasn’t until 1979. (I use the word here in quotes as it was really more a steroid-infused beauty pageant–woman were barred from clinching fists or posing in anything but high heels).

Then ESPN finally wised-up to its predominant male viewership and aired the world’s first ever Ms. Olympia in 1991. (Would have loved to have been in a sports bar that night).

So who’s to credit? Ideological feminists taking a publicity stunt too far? Christian fundamentalists desperate to breed celibacy? 

Or maybe I’m being too harsh? Maybe even sexist? Good questions.