For starters, these behaviors are mostly isolated and no way representative of the species behavior at large. All it shows is that some individuals will engage in them. This does not describe the generality that each and every members of the species will engage into. So this is to be kept in mind.

Then I'd like to remind that as of now, intelligence isn't even properly defined, and that all systematic attempts at having it be described in a system that is capable to account for all its nuances following a scientific method have failed to be 100% so far. Animal intelligence and hence the intellectual superiority of some of them is also hard to define. For the sake of the argument I'm going to use Leary's interpretation of intelligence under the 8 circuit system. I feel this is relevant because it describes symbolic-tool-using intelligence not as the finality of intelligence, but as one of its component. A cherry on the cake that likes to imagine itself as the whole cake. Much the same way that being capable to articulate ideas under symbols, plan things on, make maps, languages and use them effectively is an intellectual feat that does not guarantee that an individual will shine in the other aspects of intelligence, such as emotional-territorial or moral intelligence. This way, while a person can be a genius of mathematics and referred to as 'superior', he might be a complete dumbass in other areas of life. I think in the case of these species, the same pattern can be relevant. Belonging to a species generally considered more intelligent does not guarantee that members of this species will not engage in destructive, deviant, or plain unintelligent behaviors. If anything it just highlights that these behaviors are to be dissociated from the development of intelligence overall, because these acts serve no intelligent purposes. Thanks for reading my fancy blog post I hope your mom dies in her sleep tonight.

I don't even know why this is up for debate, though it's probably just another issue used to create division and waste the time of peasants.
Males are males and females are females, two distinct creatures with biological differences. I think most reasonable/rational people know this
though for those who believe otherwise i ask: at what point does a biological man, in your mind, become a woman? Does putting on a wig, or having long hair make a man a woman? Of course not, we cannot classify anybody with long hair as a woman for there are many men who consider themselves as such who have long hair. Is it the combination of having long hair and wearing make-up? Again, this cannot be true, makeup is used for a variety of purposes that have nothing to do with gender. Is it the combination of having long hair, wearing make-up and wearing a specific style of clothing? IS it speaking a certain way, liking a certain thing, or subscribing to a specific belief? Is a woman merely a costume that anyone, in wearing, can become? No. If i strap a shell to my back and crawl around on all fours, does that make me a tortoise? Or if i strap a horn to my forehead and gallop, am I an unicorn? NO, just a dickhead.
Such a retarded topic

Probably going to Japan for a few weeks. I have almost exactly 6 months. I’ve had plenty of exposure through media, and I spent a month there before and learned a little while I was there.
I’m like A1 in Chinese right now, so I’m thinking I should totally ignore formal study of Kanji and just learn the readings through input since I’ve already learned a lot of Chinese characters. I’m probably just gonna mix an input/conversation heavy vocab resource (maybe assimil) while making Anki cards for phrases so I can just learn as much internalized usable vocab as quick as possible. If I can rush through Assimil A1 in a little over a few months I guess I can just inputmaxx more after that. I’m just trying to come up with a study method that gives as much practically useful Japanese ASAP while still building that comprehension base so I can have some conversational ability when I’m out there. I’m optimistic, Japanese people are the most open to speaking their language with foreigners of anyone I’ve ever met, last time I was there people were incredibly patient and I had whole conversations understanding maybe 250 words and being able to speak 50 comfortably.
Any advice? Anyone done anything similar? (I.E. rushing comprehension in a language for travel in a way that’s not too intense so as to not hurt other languages or work.) I’m in grad school and already putting an hour a day minimum into Chinese.