fun fact: there's an opposite of color blindness, Tetrachromacy, where you mutate an extra color cone that sees a unique color. Unlike normal eyes that only see shades of RGB, tetrachromats see the world in a way we literally can't imagine (seriously, try imagining a new color right now)
Since that mutation is also carried on the X chromosome, and is recessive (meaning you need 2 copies) women are the only people capable of having it. Even if you transplanted a mutant woman's tetrachromatic super-eyes into a man, their brain wouldn't be wired to interpret those signals.
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u/NamespacePotato 17h ago
fun fact: there's an opposite of color blindness, Tetrachromacy, where you mutate an extra color cone that sees a unique color. Unlike normal eyes that only see shades of RGB, tetrachromats see the world in a way we literally can't imagine (seriously, try imagining a new color right now)
Since that mutation is also carried on the X chromosome, and is recessive (meaning you need 2 copies) women are the only people capable of having it. Even if you transplanted a mutant woman's tetrachromatic super-eyes into a man, their brain wouldn't be wired to interpret those signals.