• billgamesh@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Women have breasts because some prehistoric dudes decided they were good. It’s literally biological. No other animal (or not many) has massive tiddies like humans. They’re definitely the result of sexual selection.

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      6 months ago

      TIL sexual selection had nothing to do with social conditions, and cultures that do not fetishize breasts don’t exist. /s

      Seriously think it through for like one second, christ. Also the sexual selection hypothesis isn’t proven lol

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        If the social conditions have existed for long enough to have an evolutionary effect, what’s the difference?

        And as another commenter mentioned you don’t need to fetishize breasts to be attracted to them.

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      This is totally incorrect. Do you have any sort of sources for this? I’d love to see one.

      Many cultures even today don’t “fetishize” breasts. If what you’re saying is correct, that shouldn’t be a thing.

      I don’t know the exact evolutionary advantage of human breasts, but surely due to the production of milk that is supportive of the best growth for babies. That’s how natural selection works.

      Also if your idea of “sexual selection” was correct, wouldn’t every woman have massive tits? All giraffes have long necks, don’t they?

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        It’s true that it’s not proven. What is true is that human breasts are weird and no one is sure why. The theory I most support is sexual selection because it looks like it’d be good for feeding babies

        Many cultures even today don’t “fetishize” breasts

        I didn’t say fetishize. Sexual selection just means it ihas informed decisions to mate

        surely due to the production of milk that is supportive of the best growth for babies

        You’d think this but apparently it’s not true. This is why I think it’s a sexual selection thing. Some stone age dude probably thought the same thing

        if your idea of “sexual selection” was correct, wouldn’t every woman have massive tits

        Humans are the only animal that have big tiddies when they aren’t nursing.