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    Birds lay eggs and bees pollinate.

    For the traditional story, birds are girls, bees are boys.

    Hence the common UK slang of calling girls “birds” or in the US “chicks”.

    Ironic given that bee sexual reproduction is probably the least analogous to humans in the entire animal kingdom and the VAST majority of bees that you encounter outside the nest (and the only bees with stingers" are sterile female worker bees.

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        In the “teaching sex ed” way not the reality way, like why the fuck would birds and bees fuck eacother?

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          Yeah, I was just trying to point out the absurdity of trying to assign gender to either of them.

          Most bees people think of are worker or queen bees (female) while the birds people tend to picture are bright and colorful (males) or the songs (also typically males). On the other hand people associate birds and egg laying (so I suppose femaleish) and bees have a stinger that could symbolize a penis (though if you have a barbed and venomous penis please stay far away from me).

          So I vote you pick based solely on vibes instead of gender. Hell, I vote we take it a step further and stop gendering bathrooms at all. Just put random unrelated symbols and people can pick which they like. So like one with a book, the other with cheese. Or whatever else you want. Make it a big poop related social experiment.

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    This post made me realize, I’ve only ever heard “the birds and the bees” referenced, but never actually how it’s applied during sex ed.

    But uh, turns out this does not make any sense in that context either. It’s just two separate examples to explain sexuality, so bees pollinating flowers and birds laying eggs. They’re just used as examples, because they’re visible in nature and somewhat resemble the mechanics of sex.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees

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      They should have used the eggplants and the peaches. Before cell phone emojis that would have made things even more confusing. Then Piper Perry could do the putting the condom on the eggplant demonstration, and every boy could feel inadequate for the next several decades.

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      But in those examples, the bee is pollinating and the bird is conceiving, so it would make sense.

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        Ah, I thought there would be a male bird involved still, but I guess that example just explains ovulation. Still quite optimistic that everyone shares the same understanding here, though…

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    Gender neutral id wager. Just go in one and do your business. If some people are offended who cares

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      Now try remembering that as a non-native speaker while about to shit in your pants lmao

      Although I do suspect these are just gender neutral one-person bathrooms

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    In the UK women can be called birds but it’s considered a bit tasteless nowadays.

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    “She’s the bees knees” or “look at that sexy bird” I’m still confused after writing it out. Does the stinger go into the cloaca? If so, I’d guess the bee is the man… but then bees are mostly female. I fucking give up. I’d piss in the alley.

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        Honeybee colonies are mostly female. The Queen and Workers are female and the males (Drones) don’t actually do much, don’t have stingers, and don’t collect pollen. They are tolerated in small numbers to well… you know.