This ties into TERFs' misunderstanding of "top surgery" for trans men "Don't use that word! Say what it really is, double mastectomy!" Okay but a lot of times it isn't It doesn't have to be a radical mastectomy like people do to prevent breast cancer, it's a cosmetic reduction
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The kind that cis women get all the time without affecting their precious ability to breastfeed a hypothetical infant And in fact that's the point of those scary puberty blockers and HRT - the sooner you start on those the less surgery, if any, you'll ever need
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... buttocks are secondary sex characteristics? (ignoring the whole discussion about the "purpose" of breasts because .. I mean. Yeah... not interested in that one.)
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well, I know when *my* puberty hit all of a sudden my pants size went a whole number higher than my shirt size... (Baby's First Stretch Marks.)
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Nipples evolved several million years before breasts. Don't get me wrong, as a straight guy, I'm in favor of evolution here, though I suppose I also would have been in favor of it had women had instead evolved to have rainbow-colored plumage or something.
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Wait, I thought breasts developed in humans to prevent babies from possibly suffocating (since human babies don't have muzzles like most other mammals)
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*shrug* Could be a factor, nothing actually has just one reason it happened I just think it can't be that overwhelming a factor because the range of breast size is so high (and a fairly high percentage of humans don't have breasts any bigger than other primates)
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Those mentioning cows in the replies both are ignorant of the differences in anatomy between them and humans and are ignoring how much artificial selection it took to make them as big as they are on a dairy cow.
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But top surgery remove all mammary glands
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Body part teleology is exactly how we get religions (e.g. RCC) defining for heterosexual couples only PIV as ordered sexual behavior and oral, anal, handjobs, masturbation etc (even as foreplay) as forbidden and disordered.
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And how we get the entire spectrum of reproductive coercion directed at cis women and girls, which as a cis woman I find more than a little triggering
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