Please, stop boiling the Frogs
Frogs are smarter than we think (though I'm starting to think a lot of people aren't)
What follows here is a short rant that is only slightly hopeful about changing people’s writing decisions.
I’ve been seeing a LOT of posts that start out with the story about how frogs don’t realize the danger if the water is slowly increased in temperature to boiling whereupon they die—said stories really about trying to encourage people to do something to resist the fascists.
People use the frog story all the time (and have for decades).
The problem is: it’s not true as modern biology has proven.
Have a wikipedia link some useful references.
As a (retired) English prof, I have a firm policy of not offering unsolicited advice on anything to do with writing, grammar, etc. for all sorts of reasons, but one of my autistic quirks is a strong response to text or images of children or animals in danger (in terms of images, any violence triggers intrusive thoughts/memories in a cycle that’s hard to stop). So the repeated descriptions of frogs are really getting to me especially when I know it’s NOT true (frogs do not just wait around to be boiled to death!).