• FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
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    Honestly I’m amazed it’s legal for women to travel on freeways, at those speeds the chances of their uterus flying out is just so dangerous.

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    Not that surprising. I heard a pastor once say science cannot explain rainbows, and that same pastor also once said volcanoes are scientific proof that Hell is real because it proves hellfire coming out of the center of the earth (a lot of evangelical Christians believe Hell is actually physically located in the center of the earth). He also would routinely argue that the Bible says God will kill people who don’t give money to the church. Pastors can be genuinely unhinged.

  • im_me_but_better@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Interestingly enough, it may be women themselves due to societal expectations.

    It is legal in Canada. One day me, my partner and a friend (very feminist friend) were at the park in a nice spring sunny day. I removed my T-shirt and laid on the grass. She said something like “I think is should to”. I said " go ahead, why don’t you?" and she said something about feeling uncomfortable because no one else was doing it.

    (It wasn’t shyness with us. I had already seen her naked)

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    Totally legal in Canada (at least most of it I think). No one ever does it though. Or at least rarely.

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          Not to ruin your day, but avoiding eye contact doesn’t make predators not want to eat you. Also, humans are evolved with forward facing eyes, so we look at stuff to see them. I don’t think this fact has anything to do with people who are uncomfortable with eye contact.

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            Huh? I’m referring to the idea that being face-to-face (ie, making straight eye contact) with a predator would naturally make someone feel tense. Ergo, it could make sense for eye contact to cause discomfort. Who said anything about making predators not wanting to eat someone?

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              “Being stared at by a predator makes me uncomfortable.”

              “But it’s your own species. You’re a predator.”

              “That also makes me uncomfortable.”

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                Most predators take direct eye contact as an act of aggression. When dogs are submissive, they lower their heads, or expose their neck or belly. Prey don’t like eye contact with predators because predators tend to look at what they are going to attack. Some cultures take direct eye contact as a sign of disrespect, others take avoiding eye contact as a sign of guilt or ill intent. As always, people are weird.

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            Tigers are less likely to attack you if there is eye contact. It is why, many times, people in tiger country wear hats with eyes on the back. Only one I can think of.

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    Wait, women wear tops so they don’t scare horses?

    Great news, Ladies! There’s no horses around anymore! You can set those boobies FREE!

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    The nipples spook the horses and the horses spook the bears who have arrived to attack women because of their menstrual cycle.

    It’s one of natures wonderful circles.

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    Weird. Are there men with large areolas? Also why does nipple radius vary between the sexes. Is there an advantage for woman or is it just randomly different.

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      estrogen causes breast development, when the breasts develop and grow, it usually grows the areolas as part of the process.

      Most men never get high enough estrogen levels to drive breast development, so they live their entire lives with tiny undeveloped prepubescent breasts, with small areolas.

      There are variations between people, but the difference in development during puberty is much greater.

      Also some men get higher levels of estrogen temporarily during puberty, or other times due to an endocrine disorder, which causes the start of breast development which can cauae larger areolas than they would otherwise have.

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        they live their entire lives with tiny undeveloped prepubescent breasts

        I want to point this out to a cis man and see what happens

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          Meh, as a cis man, I don’t care about my undeveloped prepubescent breasts. I don’t think men are particularly concerned about them because we have no use for them. It’s just another weird guy thing I suppose.

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            I am a cis man too, and I agree. I just thought that particular way of phrasing might confuse some particularly fragile man egos.

            “My breasts are not underdeveloped. I have some of the best man tits out of all my friends. I am a BIG STRONG MANLY man, I am NOT tiny OR underdeveloped.”

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              Mr. buffing_lecturer, your ideas for confusing some particularly fragile man egos are so innovative and you definitely do not have tiny underdeveloped prepubescent breasts. Please accept this gold on behalf of a kind stranger.

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            not every man. sometimes men can just grow breasts for no reason, but of course most will have gender-affirming surgery to get those removed

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      Yeah I personally have areolas large enough that others have commented on them, including an ex that referred to them as “big pepperonis.” idk enough about the genetics to answer your second question.

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      Probably breast feeding or something? I’m not gonna die and have my wife find that in my search history. And for the public record her areolas are just fine.

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        So babies are actually wired to look for the areolas for feeding, it’s part of why during pregnancy the areolas grow and darken, it makes them really easy for the baby to spot with their still developing eyes so they know where to aim for before crashing their face in to feed (it’s really funny when they miss btw)

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      They have special glands the produce a smell (I think?) that help guide the baby. So yeah, breast feeding.