tig ol bitties

I had to scroll back in my saved posts to a million years ago to resurrect this.

Thanks for surfacing this one, it's always fun to get the older perspective and realising they're very human.
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

To be fair, tits are pretty awesome.

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Even heterosexual females enjoy a nice pair of boobies.

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

Same in Slovene. Sesalec - Sucker.
in swedish it's basically that except we say "nursing animals", which is more specific
- That sounds like a porno where nurses go wild.

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.

And then she breasted boobily down the stairs.

Gaia?
- Booba.

"fastfouriertransfem" is a great username

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.
- Also Mazinger (may be known under a different name in some countries). One of the robots (Aphrodite A) had titty missiles: https://tenor.com/en-CA/view/afrodita-aphrodite-mech-anime-gif-16897967

I'm okay with that.

I don't know, I prefer butts. Tits are nice, but only half the population have them.

an amendable issue
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!
I like butts, but I prefer tits. I'm a simple man.

We're the only(?) species that have evolved them to become more than their basic function. Other species use colors and other features for mating signals, humans use shapes. Definitely wired to be interested in them.

Hold up, are other hominids interested in boobs? Any other mammal? Any non mammals into boobs? How much tiddy science have we really done here? I need tiddy facts.
- This might be pseudoscience I got taught 20 years ago, but I have been under the impression that human evolution of breasts as a secondary sexual characteristic has to do with the shift to becoming bipedal. Like a lot of animals, early hominids would see the rear end of a fellow hominid and know this as a trigger for copulation. But when homo erectus started standing upright, butts weren't so universally erotic anymore. They had a whole back and head above them now. Breasts didn't need to be very large to fill their function, but an increase in size gave them a curvy appearance similar to a set of butt cheeks. And early humans were like, yeah, I think that's right, and selected for increased (or at least variable) breast size.
- I'm not aware of any other species sexually selecting for mammary size. Some birds do a puffy chest thing.
  It might be a learned association rather than anything instinctive about tiddies. There's this one study where they gave rats a backpack fetish, but it has a sad ending because then they murdered all the rats. They did phrase the murder like they were doing a Satanic ritual though, and that kind of took some of the murdery edge off it for me.
  I've been looking forward to like 20 years from now when all the incels will be into girls with too many fingers.
- All mammals are interested in boobs, but typically only when they are pups. Boobs = food
- Tiddy loving might be a cultural thing. Human species that don't need clothes care little for the boobs. Though they live south, so either they are used to it or it might be Neanderthal(or other varieties) genes that some of us inherited. We certainly are boob fetishists among the mammals.
- not tiddy facts, but tiddy educated guesses and inferences:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWkOvakd9Mo

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
?
- "A mastodon, (from Ancient Greek μαστός (mastós), meaning "breast, and ὀδούς (odoús) "tooth")"

In polish mammals = ssaki, and ssaki = suckers

I finally understand why galactose (greek word for milk) is a component of lactose (latin word for milk). It's milk all the way down.

Aliens are gonna have a field day with their translators.

[off topic]
A while back I imagined a race of intelligent crocodiles that not only ate their own young, they'd cooktyhem and serve them to honored guests as a sign of respect.
"These stupid apes are so goddamn horny all the time"

I've always thought my defining characteristic was my nipples.

Boobworld, it's a world for you, but it's actually two!

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?

...

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?

Chinese are more interested vagina. More to the point 也。

Yeah this isn't a universal human thing like the post suggests, it's just that terms like "mammal" and "galaxy" are rooted in Europe.
Folks? There are people outside of Europe, and they have different opinions on stuff!