Isn’t it snails where ‘male’ and ‘female’ is decided by who wins the slow-motion penis-knife fight?
snail lyfe
Submitted 5 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Sunsofold@lemmings.world 5 months ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
no, that’s my bedroom
Sunsofold@lemmings.world 5 months ago
I did not know rats were… aficionados of the struggle-snuggle.
Vigge93@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think that’s flatworms iirc
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As someone who owns snails, who told you that? I have a tank with females and one with males
ArsonButCute@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Lots, but not all, of snails are hermaphroditic.
_druid@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
My friend said they were being drilled by some guy for over an hour who needed to know, male or female. My friend is genderfluid, and they had a great time making that guy look like an idiot. He even threatened to inform the authorities. I hope they do, because anyone who reads that conversation will realize how stupid that guy looked.
phlegmy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
If I was going to drill someone for an hour, I’d probably want to know who I’m drilling too ;)
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
most people ask before, or don’t really care when the drilling is already happening for an hour
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 months ago
God, this explains SO MUCH about snails.
fartographer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t fucking compare yourself to snails unless you can stab your lovers with spears from your own body.
At best, you’re a clown fish or a frog.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Anyone can stab their loved ones with spears from their own bodies. It’s just a matter of time and sharping your nails well enough
minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cone Snail!
PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I can stab lovers with a spear from my body. 😏
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My niece saw my earrings and asked “if you’re a boy why do you have earrings?” (They are from a very conservative upbringing).
I simply asked, “Well do you like them?” and of course she said “Yeah!”
“That’s why, because they’re awesome.”
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I’m a cis white male with hair long enough to ponytail. Playing with my daughter at the park, a little one asked me if I was her mom or dad. When I told her that I was her father, she asked me why I had a ponytail. Without missing a beat I responded with “because my hair is long.” Little girl thought for a moment, put on a “yeah, that makes sense” look, and went about to go play.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Sibling and I were visiting my mum. Neighbour kids were playing outside when we arrived. They loudly asked ‘why does the boy have long hair and the girl short hair?’ Mum said ‘Because they each like their hair that way!’ and the kids were also like ‘yeah that makes sense’. Kids love learning new stuff, it comes easily to most of them to learn that humans can differ.
kamen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Cool thing about kids is that they’re not prejudiced before they learn something new. Not so cool thing is that parents often pass prejudice onto their kids.
ch00f@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re not women’s clothes. They’re my clothes. I bought them.
~Eddie Izzard
NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 5 months ago
That’s an adorable answer
TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 5 months ago
The next question I’d expect from a little kid would be “why is your hair long?”.
And another why, and another, and another…
toynbee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A good way to break the unending question sequence is to ask them what they think about whatever they asked.
“Why is your hair long?” “Well, why do you think someone might have long hair?”
NotSteve_@piefed.ca 5 months ago
As a dude with hair past my shoulders, the answer is that it looks fly AF
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Kids fucking get it
neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I don’t know where the adorably precocious children in this screenshot are purported to come from. Every kid I’ve ever met who questions me about my gender has been an argumentative little shit that wants to make a point out of not believing me.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I only interact with kids who don’t have shitty parents
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 5 months ago
Until it is abused out of them, on Sundays, at a special building.
OpenStars@piefed.social 5 months ago
No way - shame begins at home:-D.
Damage@feddit.it 5 months ago
I went to church and sunday school for years and they never mentioned homosexuality. Or sexuality really.
chisel@piefed.social 5 months ago
Huh, TIL
https://www.kqed.org/science/1446777/everything-you-never-wanted-to-know-about-snail-sex
When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts. Both snails in a pairing transfer sperm, but whichever snail got in the best shot with the dart has a better chance of ultimately fertilizing eggs.
First they stab eachother. The better the stab, the more effective the stabber’s sperm will be. Then they exchange fluids. Then they settle down, buy a minivan, and waste away in an office until they die.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 months ago
its like flatworms, they do the same. i think earthworms and relatives are more mutual, they fertilize each other at the same time without fighting.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
If you fertilize mine I’ll fertilize yours, baby.
Zink@programming.dev 5 months ago
When snails copulate, two penises enter two vaginal tracts.
That reminds me of this sweet old love song by an old cowboy band.
[Outro]
Criticize what you wreck
We’re fucking you back
Fucking you backnotabot@piefed.social 5 months ago
They’re snails, they are the minivans.
AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s 2025. Even snails are renting their homes these days.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
working as a bagger as a grocery store I interact with hundreds of people daily. In an ENTIRE 7 hour shift I only had 2 customers say sir and ma’am respectively.
it’s honestly crazy to go from constant "thank you sir"s to literally only 2. And it’s always 50/50 which one they say 😭. It’s not that they don’t respect me either, they’re all really respectful! they just like aren’t confident enough in their guess to give a solid answer
my favorite person ever is when I helped an old guy put a package of water into his car and he said "oh thank you “sir-uh-ma’a-…they-uh…Quinn?” while I just stood there like🧍♀️