u/YourSingerBoi

Never really used this gun in MP but found this blueprint in a crate and am lowkey loving using this in my AR loadouts

Recently, a narrative has been made popular by certain social media pages that 'Son doesn't carry the family lineage, a daughter does'. And these posts have thousands of likes with hundreds of comments supporting the narrative without doing any sort of fact checking, promoting mindless gender wars.

As a fellow human, it is my responsibility to educate people about the reality so that they don't indulge in such stupidity.

The narrative:

"Daughter carries the Family Lineage, Son doesn't"

What are the claims made?

A person’s “true” genetic lineage is carried only through daughters because mitochondrial DNA passes from mother to child, while sons do not pass it on. This implies that sons are effectively the end of a lineage, while daughters preserve an “unbroken genetic thread” across generations.

Now, what is the truth here?

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is inherited almost entirely from the mother.

Mitochondria are tiny energy factories inside cells, and they contain their own little packet of DNA.

So:

Sons get mtDNA from their mother

Daughters also get mtDNA from their mother

Only daughters usually pass it to the next generation

That part is basically correct.

But Lineage doesn't end at Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)

You inherit:

~50% nuclear DNA from your mother

~50% nuclear DNA from your father

That nuclear DNA contains the overwhelming majority of your genetic information. Your traits, appearance, height tendencies, disease risks, personality influences, etc. are mostly there.

So sons absolutely carry and pass on their father’s DNA.

A son passes:

1. half of his nuclear DNA to his children

2. his Y chromosome to sons (if he has sons)

That means paternal genetic lines absolutely continue.

Now, This part is also exaggerated:

“Unbroken, unaltered for generations.”

Nah, Not really.

Mitochondrial DNA mutates over time too. Slowly, but it does mutate. That’s actually how scientists track maternal ancestry and ancient migrations.

So yeah, MtDNA is exclusively from the mother, and it helps to trace maternal ancestry. Just like how the Y chromosome is exclusive from the Father.

Now, a small fun fact:

There are rare documented cases of paternal mitochondrial inheritance, but they’re extremely unusual.

So the “only mother” rule is mostly true in practice, just not an absolute law of the universe. 👍🏻

Lineage also depends on societal factors.

So, TLDR: It takes both to create a child, and both son and daughter carries the family lineage. Thus, instead of making useless posts which can create gender wars, we should promote equality in society. Sons and daughters, both carry the lineage and both deserve equal amount of respect in society. We are not living in the old times when daughters were denied to carry family lineage. Spread love, no hate 😎

Edit: No Idea why this post has 67% upvote ratio. Saying common sense is also a problem nowadays?

Everyone is missing the main point of this post. In today's world, there are far more important things to worry about. But spreading misinformation on the internet to brainwash people and spread targetted hatred towards one community should be called out.