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I’ve seen this a few times from various sources. Check it out: Female Sperm!

 

In my capacity as a science fiction writer* I am COMPLETELY OPPOSED to this, on account of it’s screwing up my definition of male and female EVEN MORE, GOD DAMMIT. For me, the distinction is simple—if you’re going to use the terms female and male, when you boil away all the extra hormones and secondary characteristics and mechanics and hermaphrodites and culture and whatnot, then you’re left with “females produce ova, and males produce sperm.” With critters like mine, that’s the only distinction you can make, and even that gets really confusing when even more sexes show up.  Now what am I going to do?

 

On the other hand, this would rather help with the problem I’m having with that one character who absolutely refuses to be female, despite the fact that no adult in his species has male sex organs in any way, and he frequently lays eggs.

 

And on the not-sci-fi hand, how cool is this?

 

 

*More or less.