Plants looking at people looking at people looking at fungi

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• MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since I don’t think fungi have a social structure, those are sexes.

  Humans have two Sexes but also gender expression, conflating those is how transphobes come to their views.

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  • melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If we’re being pedantic fungi have neither gender nor sex, they have “mating types”. But yeah, mating types are more analogous to sexes than genders. Fungi would have to have some level of social experience to have gender.

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    • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      To be fair, do we know for certain that fungi do not experience some form of social life?

      It may not be human sapience but the mycelium networks hint at some forms of communicating information.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      its usually a denoted + OR - for mating pairs.

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  • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Humans have more than 2 sexes. Sex is a convenient category based around a phenotype, not a golden rule that all organisms adhere to. People who exist outside those phenotypes are not defective or malformed and do not necessarily require surgeries to ‘correct’ their bodies and make them fall in line with binary sex categories.

    By asserting sex as binary and immutable you are actually doing the legwork of transphobia for transphobes. They also assert that sex is binary and immutable. They deny that anything such thing as gender identity or expression exists in the first place, instead asserting that gendered behavior is a direct product of biology.

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    • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Quality rant, thanks for the on point wording!

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    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, sex is bimodal, not binary

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    • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      No, we only have 2 sexes. Sperm producers and egg producers. We call those male and female. All of the other stuff is window dressing.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I need more details about these bigoted mushroom fans

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, what? Spill the context, OP!

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t want mushrooms going to school with my kids.

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is the mycology community bigoted? Lots of weirdos so I would have guessed they might be more tolerant but I guess it does skew kind of older.

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  • Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not in my experience.

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I haven’t experienced this either but I’m privileged and have only interacted with this community a little bit. So I was curious if anyone had had such experiences.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  fungi also uses PRIONs that is part of its evolution, and not a disease like in mammals, since they have different origins.

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  • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What’s that mean exactly, that they use proteins that can be further folded, and exploit that?

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      yes, i skimmed research papers on this, and essentially yes, fungi can produce prions that have different conformation which is beneficial for its survival.

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    • BambiDiego@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why, yes, exactly that.

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• Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some species have 20k+ genders. S. Commune I think is one.

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I always imagine mushrooms as a hive mind

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• beejboytyson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s not gender, it’s mating genotypes. They don’t even have male female. Science is awesome but don’t trick people into saying something incorrect.

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• BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mycologists are fine, it’s the fan club that gets weird.

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Truck carrying a truck, carrying a truck, carrying a truck!

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