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  • zzx@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?
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    10 months ago

    Men only exist in relation to women. We’re just talking about the reproductive context here, so of course one sex is described in terms of the other. The same holds vice versa, each sex needs the other in an evolutionary system

    We are past the point where any of this matters in modern society, and I completely agree with your points about sexism, feminism, etc. I think you’re just letting a scientific/evolutionary perspective and discussion transfer over and project too much onto the problems you see in society today. However, I think (hope) that many of the people in this thread talking about evolution share your thoughts and feelings about modern society, it’s just, we’re talking about a specific, ancient, evolutionary system here is all. It’s very intently sexist I guess if you think about it. We’re lucky to live in modern times.

  • zzx@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why?
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    10 months ago

    Sexual selection pressure is massive in evolutionary systems. You’re forgetting that fitness is an indirect result of what is ultimately sexual selection pressure. A lot of people think it’s fitness first, sex second, but it’s actually the other way around, sexual selection plays a larger part, and is supposed to imply fitness, but doesn’t always. Without sex there is no reproduction, and therefore no mutations. Anyways, just remember, in evolutionary systems, they are not directly selecting for traits, they are selecting traits through the abstraction of sex and sexual selection. Sex is king here. IDK it’s weird but it is what it is.