• Hildegarde@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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 cauae larger areolas than they would otherwise have.

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      they live their entire lives with tiny undeveloped prepubescent breasts

      I want to point this out to a cis man and see what happens

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        24 hours ago

        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.

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          24 hours ago

          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.”

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            22 hours ago

            Mr. buffing_lecturer, your ideas for confusing some particularly fragile man egos are so innovative and you definitely do not have tiny underdeveloped prepubescent breasts. Please accept this gold on behalf of a kind stranger.

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          14 hours ago

          not every man. sometimes men can just grow breasts for no reason, but of course most will have gender-affirming surgery to get those removed