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reblog if ur a GIRL, LIKE GIRLS, or believe that the CLASSICAL MONOCOT AND DICOT SYSTEM of BOTANICAL TAXONOMY is OUTDATED AND INACCURATE with MODERN DATA and that the proposed MONOCOT and EUDICOT SYSTEM of MODERN TAXONOMY is MORE ACCURATE 

#it makes more sense ngl#the reasoning being ‘wait what about lilypads and weird aquatic stuff’

oh man I love it when you get an old system and its overthrown by the great leveler “what about that weird shit over there”

because that’s how all science theories get disproven. For geocentrism it was epicycles, For newton it was all that weird shit about light speed being constant in all directions all the time even though it shouldn’t be, for Haeckel it was single-celled plants, for whoever liked the two-kingdom system it was those durned archaea. 

Classical mechanics got their weird two-slit experiment shit, which is weird as a fuck.

1600s botany: monocots are all straight leaved and stuff and dicots are all weird multi-pointed leaves 

modern science: what about lillypads

1600s botany: what about fuck you