• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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        2 days 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
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      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
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        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.