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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MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months 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.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 months 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.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I reworded my comment a few times to try to hedge for that, without making any claims about fungi experiences because I couldn’t know anything about that.
It’s certainly possible fungi experience some form of social life, but I think it’s unlikely they have an experience of gender at all analogous to ours.
Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 4 months ago
Input/Output and reacting to input in general is not analogous to sapience or even just sentience. Otherwise this would also be a hint that our phones have a social life.
AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Considering the spam calls I get, my phone has more of a social life than I do
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 months ago
its usually a denoted + OR - for mating pairs.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months 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.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Quality rant, thanks for the on point wording!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah, sex is bimodal, not binary
AlchemicalAgent@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Perfect use of scientific vocabulary.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 months 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.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
How kind of you to brush all intersex people off as “window dressing”. Also, I guess you dont exist at all if you dont produce eggs or sperms then.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t mean intersex people, I mean everything. Our whole bodies. The structure doesn’t matter. Only the gametes matter for this definition.
Biological sex, defined by gametes, is what we have in common with the birds, bees, and apple trees even though none of those have genetics anyway similar to our own.