Of the organs that are unique to us mammals, tits are more fun to play with than placentas.
In the defense of the ancients who were naming things like other things they sort of looked like.... what OTHER substance was around at that time that was both white and liquid?
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Because maybe we should be grateful for the milk metaphor instead of the option that only nuts would choose...
\ >.> Would you rather it be called after dough?
I don't know, I prefer butts. Tits are nice, but only half the population have them.
I like butts, but I prefer tits. I'm a simple man.
we can fix this by putting estrogen in the water. sorry in advance to all the trans guys; your sacrifice will be honored.
I've never seen a perfect butt though. I've seen a great one, but it had a crack in it.
That's the best part!
an amendable issue
"fastfouriertransfem" is a great username
In German and Dutch it's way worse: "Säugetier" and "zoogdier". Both can roughly be translated to "sucking animals". I was taught in school that it's called that because babies suck on the mother's breasts to be fed and this is a unique trait to mammals. So in conclusion, we all suck.
in swedish it's basically that except we say "nursing animals", which is more specific
That sounds like a porno where nurses go wild.
Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.
I've always thought my defining characteristic was my nipples.
I had to scroll back in my saved posts to a million years ago to resurrect this.
That metaphor (breasts as fruit) transcends language though. Whatever you call fruits you'll end up calling breasts. Here's the song of Solomon which was semetic.
I said, ‘I will go up to the palm tree; I will take hold of the boughs thereof.’ Now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples.
Instead of viewing things like this etymologically, it's better to see them as universal metaphors that transcend language and culture. Similar to light and darkness.
And boobs
Thanks for surfacing this one, it's always fun to get the older perspective and realising they're very human.
In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers
Just wait till you know the etymology of mastodon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon
Edit to save a click: "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"
Edit 2: the "mast" in "mastodon" is the same one as in "mastectomy"
Because
Mastodons are considered to have had a predominantly browsing-based diet
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"A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"
Ackshully, "galaxy" (or rather, "galaxias") means "Milky Way" already, it's just a translation. It was less ambiguous when the only galaxy we could see was the Milky lights that covered a lot of our sky.
Of course, we realize there's more than one galaxy now, so the meanings have diverged.
My son just called it "the tittieverse" and now I hate ALL of you.
This new naming scheme sounds like a great contribution to societitty.
Contriboobtion
To be fair, tits are pretty awesome.
Even heterosexual females enjoy a nice pair of boobies.
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I'm okay with that.
I mean... I think we can all agree that boobs are at least universally non-threatening, even without counting the symbolisms of nourishment, nurturance, life, fertility, etc. At least I don't think we're at the point where hiding machine guns or hellish snakes in boobs is viable. ... Right?
You should watch Austin Powers. Machine gun tits back in the 90s, lol.
Bring in the fem- BOOOOTS
To be fair, men got to name everything so what do you expect really. In my view it's Freudian.
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