I need more details about these bigoted mushroom fans
Plants looking at people looking at people looking at fungi
Submitted 10 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 10 months ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Yeah, what? Spill the context, OP!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I don’t want mushrooms going to school with my kids.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 months 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.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not in my experience.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 months 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 months ago
fungi also uses PRIONs that is part of its evolution, and not a disease like in mammals, since they have different origins.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
What’s that mean exactly, that they use proteins that can be further folded, and exploit that?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 months 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.
BambiDiego@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why, yes, exactly that.
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Some species have 20k+ genders. S. Commune I think is one.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 months ago
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
sounds like someone is waking up to that gender is socially constructed except without waking up and instead going deeper to sleep
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 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.
Chakravanti@monero.town 10 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.
reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I always imagine mushrooms as a hive mind
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 10 months ago
Mycologists are fine, it’s the fan club that gets weird.
thatradomguy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Truck carrying a truck, carrying a truck, carrying a truck!
MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de 10 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.
LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 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 10 months ago
Quality rant, thanks for the on point wording!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Yeah, sex is bimodal, not binary
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 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.
melmi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 10 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 months ago
its usually a denoted + OR - for mating pairs.