Why would you hurt me like this?
That âgenomic meltdownâ is one of the reasons feminism is so potentially lethal, because they keep pushing for asexual reproduction, or trying to combine ovaries, when the most likely outcome is a population running about - unable to reproduce sexually since the whole âmale genocideâ bit - with incredibly damaged chromosomes.
I teach genetics, I donât deserve to have to explain why this is so wrong and yet. Oh my god.Â
Muellerâs Ratchetâwhich is what this chucklefuck is talking about, the reason that purely asexual lineages donât last well in evolutionary timeâdoes not apply to feminism. The hypothetical scenario of merging two eggs to create a baby? Yeah, uh, thatâs fucking sex in this context, whether or not it involves a male.Â
There are zero feminists pushing for parthenogenesis for humans, mostly because the whole thing is basically impossible for mammals as a result of mammalian investment in genomic imprinting. Among other things. Itâs the sort of thing that only works okay in species that donât control their embryonic development anywhere near as closely as your basic placental mammal does, because it relies on a certain amount of flexibility about sex determination and placental mammals are kind of weird about that.
Even if there were, Muellerâs Ratchet only applies if you never ever sexually reproduce and reshuffle alleles, like the parthenogenetic whiptail lizards mentioned upthread. If we have the technology to induce parthenogenesis in a human woman, we have the technology to reshuffle some alleles now and again. Muellerâs Ratchet kind of presupposes that going in and manually editing a genome isnât a fucking option, shitwad!Â
Furthermore, Muellerâs Ratchet is specifically a population genetics phenomenon that refers to the accumulation of deleterious mutations within an asexually/clonally reproducing lineage. It has dick fuck all to do with chromosomes.
Muellerâs Ratchet exists in order to explain why asexually reproducing lineages havenât overrun the world, because frankly in the short term these lineages usually do way better than their conspecific, obligate sexually reproducing partners do. Furthermore, itâs really fucking common to see species that reproduce sexually at some times and asexually at other times, depending on context and whoâs available, and thatâs in and of itself a complex fucking phenotype you species-centric cortically starved ignorant dillweed
all of this is completely fucking irrelevant to the mammoth example that @brett-caton there chose to bring up, by the way, because mammoths donât fucking reproduce asexually eitherÂ
as you would know if youâd bothered to read the paper, you self-satisfied jellyfish fellator
or even the pop science article you cited yourselfÂ
which clearly and cogently explains that the fucking mammoths died of being inbred as all shit, much like yourself
the laziness inherent in jumbling all this pig-ignorant, overconfident and understudied bullshit together and claiming itâs a solidly built house rather than a crumbling, confused pile of enraged starfish is the final straw
you canât even be arsed to read an article that you dug up and cited yourself, you shithugger
how are feminists supposed to be the lazy ones?Â
you obviate your own thesis with your own intellectual failure, you pathetic snailsucking weed in the garden of knowledge