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The Talk (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Maven@lemmy.zip to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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A cartoon illustration of a father bird and mother bee sitting down to talk to their mixed bird-bee child. Caption reads "Son, your mother and I feel you're ready to have the 'talk'."

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[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've always wondered about the etymology of that phrase.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In German it‘s bees and flowers which makes more sense

[–] W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 weeks ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_birds_and_the_bees May not clear much up, but it’s a start for me and yet another rabbit hole. So I thank you for that.

[–] cpaq47@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The birds and the bees are both males. They pollinate flowers, which would be the females in the analogy.

[–] xwolpertinger@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Bees have a haplo-diploid sex determinism and birds work with ZW sex chromosomes.

I don't get it either.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fun fact once in every birds life they will eat a bee then feel ill and never do it again

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

"Why did I eat this bee instead of fucking it?"

[–] Linktank@lemmy.today -2 points 2 weeks ago

Is this about sex, or is it because he's a hermaphrodite?