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Our entire group of animals is named after tits:

Mammals.

How can referring to the fact people have what our entire branch of the tree of life is named after be offensive?




...Probably better not to point that out, or next thing you know we're gonna have to rewrite damn near every textbook...


Isn’t this ongoing already?


Yeah, it's like a competition between the worst of two groups of people as to who can change them more and skew the language, or lack of it, in their ideological direction.


Incidentally not all mammals have nipples. Male kangaroos don't.


Time for some class-affirming surgery then.


Good thing tits are global but have have different names in other languages, Meisen in the case of my primary-guardian language.




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