Complete strawman. Decorative male peacock feathers serve no purpose other than to display the peacock’s virility. That is a biological feature that is there only to aid in sexual selection.

Exactly. The vagina has multiple purposes, one of which being the birth canal. Just because many women aren’t able to deliver vaginally, that doesn’t mean childbirth is not an essential function of the vagina.

“Is it not possible, even probable that through sexual selection over millions of years that homonids got the breasts they have today because males found them attractive and would select that woman to be fertilized? Female breasts dont exactly mirror the other great apes”

Why even make breasts about men at all? They’re not about men. Making sure young boys have a male-based sexual context for breasts is asinine.

It doesn’t matter whether you USE them for feeding, it is still what breasts are FOR. Jeezus

Exactly. I don’t have kids but that doesn’t mean my uterus fell out or I made it into a tote bag.

Jesus, you need to stop.

Wait, what? You’re trying to create a society where young boys have the male gaze cemented by educational books? And your faction and my faction (the one that is...not trying to do that) are going to have a violent civil war?

This thread is giving me so much life right now.

I mean, I’m fine with it being the role of lighthearted books about puberty to deprogram the male gaze. I’d herald that.

Also, it’s completely unnecessary to point out to teenagers that boobs can be attractive.  

No, it would not. That kind of information is irrelevant when you’re talking about why women develop breasts. They develop them because of evolution and biology — to feed babies. Women do not develop breasts because men find them attractive, which is what the book said.

I don’t plan to have children at all and thus my breasts will never be used for feeding a baby. However, that is their function nonetheless. It sounds like you’re being willfully obtuse to start a fight.

But they are for breastfeeding. Just as a uterus is for having a baby. I didn’t have a baby, therefore I did not breastfeed nor did I utilize my uterus for babymaking, but it does not negate their purpose.

No because the biological purpose of growing breasts is to breastfeed.

This whole statement is wrong. I shouldn’t even be taking it out of the greys but...

“Damn, look at those descended testicles!”

No, it is not.

No. Just because some people find breasts attractive, that is not what they are for. Women grow breasts in order to feed children. That we as a society have sexualized a body part doesn’t change why it exists. No woman chooses to grow boobs, it just happens. You’re saying that the symptom defines the purpose. This…