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It’s a better reason than the truth so I’ll take it.
Weird. Are there men with large areolas? Also why does nipple radius vary between the sexes. Is there an advantage for woman or is it just randomly different.
estrogen causes breast development, when the breasts develop and grow, it usually grows the areolas as part of the process.
Most men never get high enough estrogen levels to drive breast development, so they live their entire lives with tiny undeveloped prepubescent breasts, with small areolas.
There are variations between people, but the difference in development during puberty is much greater.
Also some men get higher levels of estrogen temporarily during puberty, or other times due to an endocrine disorder, which causes the start of breast development which can cause larger areolas than they would otherwise have.
they live their entire lives with tiny undeveloped prepubescent breasts
I want to point this out to a cis man and see what happens
Meh, as a cis man, I don’t care about my undeveloped prepubescent breasts. I don’t think men are particularly concerned about them because we have no use for them. It’s just another weird guy thing I suppose.
I am a cis man too, and I agree. I just thought that particular way of phrasing might confuse some particularly fragile man egos.
“My breasts are not underdeveloped. I have some of the best man tits out of all my friends. I am a BIG STRONG MANLY man, I am NOT tiny OR underdeveloped.”
One of nature’s most venerable predators, the horse
After seeing this comment, my autistic discomfort with direct eye-contact now feels justified.
Not to ruin your day, but avoiding eye contact doesn’t make predators not want to eat you. Also, humans are evolved with forward facing eyes, so we look at stuff to see them. I don’t think this fact has anything to do with people who are uncomfortable with eye contact.
Huh? I’m referring to the idea that being face-to-face (ie, making straight eye contact) with a predator would naturally make someone feel tense. Ergo, it could make sense for eye contact to cause discomfort. Who said anything about making predators not wanting to eat someone?
“Being stared at by a predator makes me uncomfortable.”
“But it’s your own species. You’re a predator.”
“That also makes me uncomfortable.”
Most predators take direct eye contact as an act of aggression. When dogs are submissive, they lower their heads, or expose their neck or belly. Prey don’t like eye contact with predators because predators tend to look at what they are going to attack. Some cultures take direct eye contact as a sign of disrespect, others take avoiding eye contact as a sign of guilt or ill intent. As always, people are weird.
