Yes this! I hate when people say biology supports their trans/homo/ect. phobia when in reality it absolutely does not
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Transphobic people must really hate frogs.
And many kinds of fish! Like clown fish : ]
I am trans and love toads
Which doesn't prove the above statement but it hints towards it.
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It's 1st grade biology!
Yes, it is. Advertising the fact that you only know biology up to a 1st grade level is not the flex you think it is.
Taxonomy isn't biology, though. It's a man-made classification system. And at the species level it's much closer to binary definitions than spectrums. So maybe not the best analogy to make.
As is gender:
A man-made classification system
So I’d say it fits perfectly
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Until you start to use evolution. What a species is, begins to blur as soon as you try to establish evolutionary lines. When is a whale not a whale but just a water enthusiast mammal? somewhere between 50 and 35 million years ago. Exactly when, it's anyone's guess. Taxonomy is indeed part of biology, though.
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Attention! Turn back. Going into these comments can bring you nothing of happiness. You can just look up the "tumblr reading comprehension" meme instead of needing to see the gory details of it in action.
But comments like that are exactly why I'm here!
Haha fair enough, in that case you will find exactly what you're looking for.
The warnings are clear but we choose to advance anyway.
This is not a place of honor. Nothing of value is here.
The world is a wonderful place, and far too wide to need to conform to your pet theory.
I have a theory that you're all my pets. So you will conform, or you won't get a treat.
I have a theory that you're all my pets.
And I'm living off of grass, and the drippings from my ceiling It's okay to eat fish 'cause they don't have any feelings
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Diogenes strips naked and does a cannonball into the pool
"Behold! A fish!"
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Fish absolutely exist cladistically, OP just didn't want to admit they're a land dwelling fish. You believe the implications of cladistics or you don't, cowards.
I'd also argue it's relatively easy to separate fish-fish from land fish from land fish that became sea fish again to bully the fish fish.
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Just gonna swing by and drop this little grenade:
If you believe "race doesn't exist", then this post also applies to you. If you can refer to different genders while also understanding that at the individual level definitions are fluid and blurry, then you can refer to different races while also understanding that at the individual level definitions are fluid and blurry.
Got it, fish are racist confirmed.
Of course some fish are racist, especially humans.
Unfortunately I could still read this, needs more jpeg.
I try to tell folks all the time that biology is not as simplistic as they think. It's basically an endeavor of humans trying to make simplistic categories out of a naturally complicated clusterfuck. Some things defy labels, not everything fits into a nice, easy little box. Life is complicated. Get over it.
We're all just collectively ignoring the biologist's username?
I mean they are definitely correct, but that name detracts from their credibility somewhat.
That's a problem for the future society
What's the worst an evil biologist can do? Dissect a frog, but with a frown?
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Bees are fish.
(in California)
"Gender is absolutely the same way." - from How to Start a Vicious Online Argument
Honestly I sometimes feel like going to certain online communities and just making a single post that says "gender" and then vanishing and watching the ensuing arguments.
They called him "The Sniper". He would strike without warning, always vanishing into the ether. No downvote could stop him. No harsh rebuke could change his merciless ways.
I was going to say ‘how about bony fish?’, but then I checked and I am technically a bony fish (Osteichthyes).
Regarding "fish" Old classification relied on "phenotype" characteristics. And yes lamprey, a shark or a cod has little in common genetically. But they still share some common traits that distinguishes them considerably from whales, sea lions and seals. I still think the term "fish" is useful, and modern classifications rely more on genetics so I would say that the argument is semi void.
They didn't say that fish wasn't a useful concept, they said that the more you delve into the facts, the less certain you can be that it has a definite meaning that can be pinned down scientifically.
People think the science agrees with them that the world can be divided into fish and not fish, but that's absolutely not what the science is saying, and their understanding is superficial.
Similarly, the terms male and female are generally quite useful, but the people who think that there's some kind of scientific and absolute binary distinction between them are just incorrect, and their understanding is superficial.
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