Is ‘botanical sexism’ the reason why your allergies are worse this year?

[@davidgough3512]

with some exceptions, most flowering plants have male and female parts within the same flower, and many will produce different male and female flowers seperately or sequentially on the same plant. Where there's a choice, cities and parks will often choose males to reduce the female's fallen fruit & berries, nuts and associated animal and bird poop

[@edwest2263]

I hate this generation

[@monbub]

what are you talking about bruh

[@MonMonKack]

Same

[@Steelers-rk3ig]

The doctor they interviewed is 100 pounds overweight, but she is worried about male or female trees? Come on.

[@omaeve]

That sounds stupid. I live out in the middle of the boonies in farm country and I still get the sniffles constantly during allergy season. It has anything to do with planting only male trees.

[@er...]

Male trees produce more pollen, that's a fact. And what the video is referring to is urban areas where less female trees are planted so there is not fruit garbage everywhere. Of course you wouldn't have this issue on a farm, duh🙄

[@vornamenachname1572]

Because cities are known to be full of trees. 😂 + You have no idea about botanics, have you? Which trees are usually planted in cities? Google "XY tree + Male/female" You are going to be surprised. Calling it botanical sexism is just plain stupid and it must be allowed to call that out.

[@shaunacapps3063]

A personal experience is a good place to start asking questions but one instance is not scientific evidence.

[@er...]

@@shaunacapps3063 especially when that experience is neither comparable nor analogous.

[@sendmorerum8241]

Well, that's why it's called allergy season! If you really live in the country, you know that the majority of trees are cosexual, producing flowers both with male and female parts. So 90% of trees (and other plants) around you will produce pollen. Enjoy. (Just joking, I hope your allergy isn't that bad.)

[@jacobhendrickson8935]

Don’t tell me the trees are confused now too. Perhaps to many are identifying as male.

[@ian.swift.31614]

trans trees

[@RayToutuver]

As a former tree planter (softwoods), we had a ratio of 70 females planted per 100 in clearcuts The numbers would still be 60% female in old growth forestry Depends on the species

[@kristinabliss]

Yes, they're talking about cities. Ginko is a good example of avoiding stinky, messy fruits in crowded areas.

[@sendmorerum8241]

Just curious, why is that ratio was chosen?

[@RayToutuver]

@@sendmorerum8241 : deer and moose, primarily - they like to nibble these seedlings

[@r.a.y.1704]

3:19 “die from asthma”. Yes it is a thing. Lost a cousin that way…basically suffocated to death. (It was the smell of bleach that did it. It is hereditary on my mother’s side of the family. But everyone has their own specific chemical/allergen triggers.) So those people who insist on spraying themselves with copious amounts of fragrance or need to have their clothes smelling like something via laundry detergents or dryer sheets, please give the rest of us with allergies and asthma a break. All public places need to be fragrance free. And could the department stores please move the cosmetic counter off to the side of the store and not stick it in an entrance…or at least offer a different entrance into the store so those of us who wish to avoid the cosmetic counter can. And yes…while most plants have male and female on the same plant, a lot of trees do not. (A number or posters need to re-listen to the video and do a little research.) And while cities are not full of trees, cities will plant male trees on the sides of roads near the sidewalk or will plant them on that middle divider between oncoming lanes of traffic. Part of “beautifying” the city. Parks, gated communities with manicured landscaping are all areas where these trees are planted because the fallen flowers and fruit from a female tree will require cleaning up (to prevent rodents/pests) and further money spent on maintenance crews to clean as well as do pest control.

[@kimberleya5408]

Really interesting!! Thank you for informing us

[@altruism8637]

bees like the pollen tho so fuggit

[@Kaldortangerine]

Oh, so this is why I have been having trouble breathing this winter above any other

[@mdhh7859]

So true 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you so much for this video I thought I was going crazy thinking wtf is going on

[@francesbernard2445]

White people get diagnosed more often with only allergies no matter where they are working and living at the time and no matter what their actual work history is too. I am wondering where in the world that theory came from. Is that why for awhile I was being criticized for letting only some of the seeds drifting from some of the flowering plants grow wild in my yard too? Not all of us can afford to buy expensive perenial bedding plants originally from Europe. Some people can move about in more than one racial community and in a non=-traditional gender role workplace too where it is being assumed they belong there while experiencing occupational health hazard caused health problems while then being diagnosed with only allergies. While some people from the same crowd who have never worked with them at all in a paid position are constant telling them to just stay home while criticizing them for their home making success.

[@vornamenachname1572]

The term itself tells you everything you need to know. I consider myself a feminist but this goes too far and distracts from the REAL causes and solutions

[@kylerobinson8913]

Is this real?

[@SherriCohen]

Wow great to know 🎉🎉

[@adamwallenfang]

Very few plants have separate males and females, i.e. most plants have both male and female elements and can actually self-pollinate. Thus, "botanical sexism" is a farcical notion. Plus, pollen will always be more common than the female parts of the flower, because like sperm in animals it's the cheap gamete, so it's advantagous to create many and spread as many as possible as far as possible.

[@martinlara5061]

Great, allergies are worse this year, as if we didn't have enough health threats to worry about. Why don’t they ever tell us how to eliminate the susceptibility to allergies, asthma and other breathing disorders. Lack of electrolytes in the bottled water we are drinking is the problem because without electrolytes we remain chronically dehydrated and cannot eliminate the toxic waste that pollutes our lungs and make us susceptible to breathing disorders.

[@Gloria_All_Day]

I've heard this and definitely believe it.

[@graciea1575]

Very insightful, ultimately these environmental issues end up affecting the disadvantaged very disproportionately. Wild that humans extend their learned sexism to plants!

[@justdiane5]

What are you on about? How exactly are the disadvantaged more effected by allergies? Are you just spewing radical left wing garbage or what?

[@graciea1575]

@@justdiane5pretty self explanatory Diane, as the scientist who studied this field and had a prominent feature in the above video said….

[@vornamenachname1572]

That's not sexism but city planning and cost effectivness. The scientist you mention said that, too making the whole sexism thing obsolete. In medicine it's defo sexism. To assume sexism here while okham',s razor is almost jumping at you, seems far fetched, almost needy

[@zimti7390]

🤦‍♂️

[@ashleyfernandez2223]

So informative!! This was great. Hoping for a better future, I feel overwhelmed by allergies 24/7 😢

[@robertbaker6950]

Proverbs 26:12 You see those who are wise in their own eyes? There is more hope for fools than for them.

[@francesbernard2445]

it says those who think themselves to be wise through their own eyes. Through their own eyes while often having planks (or 2 by 4rs) in them.

[@robertbaker6950]

יברָאִ֗יתָ אִ֖ישׁ חָכָ֣ם בְּעֵינָ֑יו תִּקְוָ֖ה לִכְסִ֣יל מִמֶּֽנּוּ: this is what it says in my bible I know some people like their preferred translation of the scripture. So your version of that scripture is warning not to cut down trees?

[@gamingtonight1526]

This is a total joke! Most U.S. cities barely have trees!

[@kiwiblue2519]

imagine thinking you're an intelligent person

[@khafuzteref8831]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Sally150]

omg

[@human_in_extinction]

Wow, you are a truly choco-goddess!!! 🏹💥💘

[@monbub]

don't...call people that

[@BlueSideUp77]

What is a woman tree?

[@kristinabliss]

Some trees are sext. A female ginko tree, for example drops a lot of messy fruits on the public streets and sidewalks that rot to stinky slime for weeks. While Ginko trees are awesome (resilient, beautiful and able to grow very tall) it is clearly preferable to limit city plantings of Ginko to males. Ornamental trees are not intended for developing a forest anyhow. Allergies come about when our bodies are so toxic, they can't deal with any more irritation. I don't claim this male hatred.

[@thelawnlifeTLL]

go woke..