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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's when you go, "fuck it. Everyone's a they. Deal with it."

[–] LennethAegis@fedia.io 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Fungus TERFs be like, "ThErE aRe OnLy 6561 gEnDeRs"

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Real fungus doesn't care about gender, only the WAAAAAAGH

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Do you think they have dicksquigs?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe fungus should consider itself lucky that it doesn't need bathrooms.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 2 months ago

Germans would be like "I can't even talk about this fungus without analyzing a DNA sample first".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, just doing that would not only solve certain issues, it would remove some unnecessary complexity from English. In most (maybe all?) Turkic languages we don't have gendered pronouns, just one for "they" and nothing disastrous has happened yet.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It would take some adjustment, but I'd be all for it.