😂 Too real. It's like the biological need to scold vs. the biological need to be a coward: both inside one human being, spinning her around like two opposing magnets inside a box, running in circles, doing nothing, but loudlly doing nothing.

Yes. Like sex.

little girls squeal, it's the same thing i figure

Solipsism. They believe everything in the universe must conform with what pleases their feelings, even in the face of a clear and present danger.

Hehehe that's usually because her man is getting walloped before her eyes

Screams carry a roughness, rapid loudness fluctuations around 30 to 150 Hz, that normal speech lacks, and the brain prioritizes detecting them, feeding them into the amygdala's alarm circuitry. Basically a sound engineered to be impossible to ignore.

Actually, yes. High pitched frequencies travel farther and cut through background noise better to summon backup or scatter predators. Nature's air raid siren.