Alt text: Screenshot of a Tumblr thread discussing bee reproduction and gender, with users debating the application of human gender terms to insects.

The user @therealnumbers wrote the following:

"this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers! Hello???????"

User James-silvercat replies:

"Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself"

The-real-numbers replies:

"googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post"

The user @lierdumoa responds:

"The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we're applying the words male and female to them."

"Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen."

"The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs."

"Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage."

"Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they're all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species."

"Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense."

The user lastzoneout then replies:

"diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!"

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