Comment on Plants looking at people looking at people looking at fungi

Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s not even genders, it’s a whole different type of reproduction. Sexual types.

  Mushrooms do not have male and female sexes; instead, they have mating types, a system of genetic factors that determines compatibility for sexual reproduction. Unlike animals, fungi don’t possess specialized organs for sex, but can have thousands of different mating types within a single species, allowing for broad reproductive compatibility and increasing genetic diversity.

  Mushrooms must look at us like we look at monocellular life.

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  • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We don’t, in and of itself, eat monocellular life, the way the fungi eat our dead. All the dead, really. Well, unless your religious enough that even they don’t want to.

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    • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah but that’s not the analogous part

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      • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are sure about that?

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sounds like someone is waking up to that gender is socially constructed except without waking up and instead going deeper to sleep

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