An educational program uses facts to describe reality. Right-wingers lose their shit. It's clockwork. No wonder they hate education. The program should make an episode about fungi.
Scientists discover why fungi have 36,000 sexes
IF HUMANS were mushrooms, finding a date would be much easier. Whereas we muddle by with just two sexes, the fungi have 36,000, all of which can mate with each other, in a mysterious process involving underground fronds.
Definitionally, what even is sex in this context? A broad reproductive pattern?
You know how you can only successfully reproduce if a male gamete meets a female gamete? Fungi say "Nah" and have many, many different kinds of gamete that are all mutually reciprocal to each other. So instead of male /female you have A/B/C/D/E... and can reproduce by pairing AB, AC, AD, AE, BA, BC, DE, EB, and so on
Hey handsome. Want to engage in a mysterious process involving underground fronds?
"Life, uh, finds a way"
:frothingfash: You shut up! No it doesn't!
:obama-drone: :pog-fish: :frog-no-pretext:
Obama and the Gay Frog Army are forcibly feminizing the fish :deeper-sadness:
I think this is actually a problem with turtles or crocodilians or something bc sex is determined by the temperature conditions of the egg and, well, global warming.
So a cool thing that most of you have probably already seen me talk about is the sexual hierarchy of clownfish. Every shoal of clownfish has exactly one female, usually the biggest fish of the bunch. When the female dies, the dominant male becomes the new female and the secondary male assumes its place. Femininity is only achieved by first dominating the male hierarchy.
That is strictly sex, though. In guppies, the sub-dominate male will sometimes take on the outward appearance of a female without any change to its reproductive systems. Their gonopods (fish dicks) will shrink, they will lose their color and they will take on female behavioral traits. They trade their ability to successfully reproduce for the ability to live peacefully among the females without the constant stress of being bullied by the other males. And once they've done this, the other males begin to treat the fish just like any other female. While I'd hesitate to go so far as to call this gender, they do change in behavior, physical appearance and social interactions without actually changing their sex.
Idk, I just think it's neat.
Femininity is only achieved by first dominating the male hierarchy.
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the sub-dominate male will sometimes take on the outward appearance of a female without any change to its reproductive systems. Their gonopods (fish dicks) will shrink, they will lose their color and they will take on female behavioral traits. They trade their ability to successfully reproduce for the ability to live peacefully among the females without the constant stress of being bullied by the other males. And once they’ve done this, the other males begin to treat the fish just like any other female
femboy fish :pog-fish:
Remember the "Reality has a well known liberal bias" jokes from like ten years back?
Closer to 20 years than 10 :yes-honey-left:
Hard to believe there was a time when Colbert would come to my mind and I'd think "funny" rather than "hack." I was also a huge :LIB:, but even so...
Fuck me. Getting old sucks, it has no redeeming features, and I sincerely do not know what those people who are all "I'm loving myself more every year I'm growing in to myself blah blah blah" people are on about.
“I’m loving myself more every year I’m growing in to myself blah blah blah” people are on about.
This makes sense 20-25, maybe into the late twenties depending on how long it takes people to grow up.
Cool lets just ban reality next then if we're going to fuck with science education.
Everyone dumb, scared and bigoted just like the fash loves.
Fish cannot swap genders (they swap sexes), but humans can. :centrist:
Know what else is "idoctrination"? Religion. Teaching lies. Insisting something doesn't exist which obvious does.
I guess the only "good" indoctrination is their indoctrination.
People learn to hate. Kids don't naturally hate. My friend's kids, and my nieces and nephews asked about me or even identified me innociently as a woman - just instinctive for them - and they've asked about my relationships when they were congitive enough to understand, notice and communicate differences. It's the innocent inquisitive and questioning attiude of intelligence.
All my "indoctrination" was is most are like what you know, but some are different and I just happen to be one of those that are different and as you see and know I'm just fine. That was the exent of it and they never needed to ask more. They got it that quickly. To my knowledge, them knowing that and knowing me didn't "convert" or "sexualize" them in the least.
But if you ask a CHUD that would be :frothingfash: SEXUALIZING OUR CHILDREN!
Why are these people so stupid? How could they have made it this far in life? We need to make "Jurassic Park" required watching for every child older than 8, once a month every year, until they graduate. I knew this kind of stuff when I was 7!
There's only one solution to this problem: Install terf bathroom cops at the bottom of the sea to stop the fish from being woke.
This made me look up the Wikipedia homosexuality in animals article. In the middle of the article, apropos of nothing, is a picture captioned "2 male giraffes". That's it, that's the post.
Edit to add additional info: One report on sheep found that 8% of rams exhibited homosexual preferences—that is, even when given a choice, they chose male over female partners. In fact, apparent homosexual individuals are known from all of the traditional domestic species, from sheep, cattle and horses to cats, dogs and budgerigars
i am having the strongest deja vu ever from this thread
i swear we talked about something exactly like this a year ago
