That’s not what I mean….
I was just listening to a biologist podcast about tardigrades and learnt we’ve been subjecting them to all the extremes to see what they can tolerate: super-fast speeds, radiation, you name it we’ve done it to them…
Think if super-advanced aliens did this to us. Oh. Oh god. ‘How much velocity to squish us?’ ‘How much sound to shake us apart?’
Suddenly anal probing doesn’t seem so bad.
e: ‘we’ll stick an appropriately-sized thing into an orifice that seems made for that’ sounds downright friendly by comparison.
That or just an indictment of how pervasive homophobia and xenophobia was in the zeitgeist of that era.
“Aliens are different, so they must be wanting to do bad things to us ^cause it is what I would do in their shoes^ What are some bad things they could be doing to us? Sticking things up our butts ^which is something I’m terrified of happening to me, cause what if I enjoy it and it makes me gay!^”