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I'm not saying that all Catholics think this, but most do. also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see X---X

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[–] powerstruggle@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 days ago (21 children)

Male seahorse get pregnant, but that doesn't make them trans, they're unambiguously male. This is a great example of why sex is defined by gamete size. If it weren't, we couldn't talk about males and females in any useful way across the animal kingdom.

Clownfish would be a better example as they're sequential hermaphrodites, but that doesn't have any bearing on the human sex binary.

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[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

My biggest issue with this whole thing is just writing "POV" at the start.

Is this like the new generations communication habit? Some people can't stop putting lol at the end of a message, some people cant stop saying "so here's the thing" at the start of sentences. Are people just automatically writing POV at the start of memes now?

[–] NannerBanner@literature.cafe 3 points 3 days ago

Just let me be clear, it incenses me just as much as you, lol, but here's the thing, run on sentences are much worse for us in the interim and we need to circle back around so that that issue becomes a lesser thing, lest we forget the true horrors of english perpetuating themselves through a normalization of nominalization that makes a trivialization of our original lines in the sand aaaaand now I'm just getting into the weeds with my niche micro-interests and brought in too many limes.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

POV you’re being annoyed about "point of view" being used to describe a speech or vision as if you were the mentioned groupe

That’s okay, it’ll pass one day, you’ll adapt

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or the idiots will have to learn.

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 1 points 2 days ago

Now who are the real idiots? The ones that are stuck in the past, refusing to understand change and being infuriated because a language is being used slightly differently, or the younger ones that are adapting the language and updating it with new speech patterns to better match what they want to express?

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[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Frogs and ducks enter the chat

[–] PizzaLamp25@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Clown Fish have entered the chat

[–] phaedrus@piefed.world 9 points 4 days ago

A whole new vibe to, "plenty of fish in the sea."

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (6 children)

what

I was just looking up if ducks can turn trans and this popped up

[–] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 days ago

What the duck?!

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[–] mienshao@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I think it’s ironic that out of all the animals that can change their sex, OP chose one that doesn’t lol.

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[–] skibidi@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Seahorses aren't a great example here imo. Their biology is just different from ours, the sex that fertilizes is the sex that carries the eggs to term - that doesn't make them trans that is just how male and female work for seahorses, different than humans.

A seahorse could make this meme calling cis women trans men because they carry the fetus..

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Isn't this confusing sex and gender?

[–] Karl@literature.cafe 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Never really understood those terms. Can someone explain in a simple way?

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 12 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Sex is biology, gender is sociology.

Your biological sex is the physical manifestation. It involves your genitals and genes. That is why it is called a sex-change and not a gender-change.

Your gender is how society perceives you. It is a spectrum between masculine and feminine. And not a single person in this world is pure masculine or feminine, since it also differs between societies. Like wearing a skirt is seen in most places as something feminine, but go to Scotland and there it is masculine.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago

Your gender is how society perceives you. It is a spectrum between masculine and feminine

Not quite. It's got nothing to do with how people perceive you. A closeted trans woman is still a woman, even though she's perceived as a man.

It's also not inherently defined by femininity or masculinity. You can be a masculine woman or a feminine man, or you can simply not give a shit about masculinity or femininity (this is me). Society defines what we consider masculine and feminine, and creates powerful associations between these behaviours and gender, but the association is "after the fact"

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

go to Scotland and there it is masculine.

I wouldn't say that. In Scotland wearing a skirt is still seen as feminine. Wearing a very special kind of skirt is seen as masculine in certain contexts. If you're wearing a kilt, a sporran (the purse thing), knee length socks, the right kind of shoes, etc. it's definitely a masculine style of dress. But, without all the accessories it's more ambiguous whether it's male or female. And if it's not a tartan at all -- say a miniskirt, that's definitely still feminine in Scotland.

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[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like this misrepresents what trans means, but I'm not educated enough to get into it.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's perfectly cis for a male seahorse to give birth. That said, a quick search told me they also change sexes over the course of their life so…

[–] the_q@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But I was under the impression that part of transitioning was the conscious decision to make a change in line with self perception. I can't help but think non human animals wouldn't experience that.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ah, yeah we can't really know. Sequential hermaphrodism in chordates however is sometimes used to argue that biological sex isn't as stable of a construct as some prefer to act like it is, in a similar way to how intersex people are used to express how it isn't as binary of a concept as culture would have you believe.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure you can really apply the biology of sea horses to humans, though.

Like, just because some reptiles can regenerate tails doesn't mean humans regenerating limbs is natural.

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think being true to yourself is being closer to God than most Christians are.

[–] stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 4 days ago

Okay looks like this one is the female because it has the babies! Oh wait I has a penis so this is the male. The other one is the female because it has the vagina. Oh but it can't have babies. Then this one is the male! And that one is the female because it has the babies. Oh but it has a penis.... Repeat.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

also sorry if the seahorse is hard to see

I am emotionally damaged and triggered from seeing this seahorse. It was a very hard thing for me to see.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Gender fuckery and homosexuality are present in almost every single animal species.

Humans are the only ones who developed bigotry about them

Don't fucking talk to me about "unnatural"

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago

I dunno, I'm sure if we looked hard we could find at least one baboon bigot out there.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In case you wanted the explanation from a 1993 Nirvana T-shirt: “Ever the trendsetter, the sea horse is the sole animal known to man which the male of the species endures the privilege of childbirth. Following a length courtship, a male and female have intercourse during which the female enters the male and lays as many as 200 eggs which are fertilized within the body of the male. After a 5-week gestation period, the male gives birth.”

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[–] Shrubbery@piefed.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Catholics: Eating your young isn't normal or part of nature.

Nature: Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Better example is ~~parrotfish~~ clownfish.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives saying shit like "nature intended monogamous relationships between men and women, and it is against nature to change your gender" while fucking nature is queer AS fuck. Clown fish will always end up turning into females in the course of their lives (if they dont get eaten before), male seahorses get pregnant and shimpanzes solve all of their problems with sex.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Saying nature intended anything is naive

Chimpanzees have gang wars and eat each other. Doesn't make it right.

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