rdmdontdie wrote:
I think its more of a principle thing. They want all the same privlages as men, all the same rights. But they still want all the protections they have, they still want to keep the distinction that they are women, so if they haul off and ***** slap a guy, and he turns around and punches her in the chops, he still gets in sh*t.
It's a double standard as equally embedded in western society as racism. Unfortunately, most men just don't give a sh*t (outside of idle complaints in a conversation of this nature), so it's a cultural norm that will never be seriously challenged.
Also, we evolved from apes, not monkeys. It's an important distinction. Regarding the question as to why apes don't have abnormally enlarged breasts and humans do, I'm gonna go with this theory:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sex-dawn/201004/why-do-breasts-mesmerize wrote:
Theories range from the belief that breasts serve as signaling devices announcing fertility and fat deposits sufficient to withstand the rigors of pregnancy and breastfeeding to "genital echo theory": females developed pendulous breasts around the time hominids began walking upright in order to provoke the excitation males formerly felt when gazing at the fatty deposits on the buttocks.
Theorists supporting genital echo theory have noted that swellings like those of chimpanzees and bonobos would interfere with locomotion in a bi-pedal primate, so when our distant ancestors began walking upright, they reason that some of the female's fertility signaling moved from the rear office, as it were, to the front showroom. In a bit of historical ping-pong, the dictates of fashion have moved the swelling back and forth over the centuries with high heels, Victorian bustles, and other derrière enhancements.
If you give the above any credibility, the curvature of the human female's breast is merely supplemental to that of her ***, both of which, speaking strictly in a biological sense, are presumed to signal fertility and attract a mate. Sexual in nature? Absolutely. Taboo or obscene? Hardly.
Edited, May 4th 2010 12:37pm by BrownDuck