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'."
The Talk
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'."
9 Comments
CidVicious@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 1y
I've always wondered about the etymology of that phrase.
dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de · 25 pts · 1y
In German it‘s bees and flowers which makes more sense
Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
bees pollinate flowers
Letsdothisok@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
W_itjust_works@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
The birds and the bees are both males. They pollinate flowers, which would be the females in the analogy.
xwolpertinger@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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 pts · 1y
Fun fact once in every birds life they will eat a bee then feel ill and never do it again
Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
"Why did I eat this bee instead of fucking it?"
Linktank@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 1y
Is this about sex, or is it because he's a hermaphrodite?