i bet it feels good as fuck to be a mermaid swimming in the moonlight

no actually i do need to die at sea i think that would fix me

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

OH MY GOD

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

Marine biology enthusiast here! This is really fun and I just want to add some notes. There are actually 3 different kinds of sex changes that fish can do, and in line with the proposed mermaid theory, they would be expierencing bidirectional hermaphroditism, in which a sex change occurs when two members of the same species meet but they’re both the same sex. The important thing to note is that, unlike the other two types this one typically allows for changes multiple times (the other two are mtf or ftm permanently), and allows for the flexibility of the condition being meeting a member of the opposite sex (as opposed to loss of the dominant male or female).

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

OH MY GOD

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

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