technically they can give birth under unusual circumstances.
this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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Clearly, we have to genetically modify all men to be hyenas, so that they can experience the Miracle of Life through their dicks. /S.
men have the anti-mullerien hormone from the Y chromosone to stop female secondary characteristics during fetal development. rarely there are disorders that prevent that gene from activating or it goes missing and they develop as a female, minus having the extra biologicl X CHromosone.
I need to know more about this.
If men bore the children then women would have to do the sexual pursuing. The human race would quickly die out.
This would be such an extreme warping of reality that it’s essentially impossible to make any assumptions about what it would entail like this. You know the joke about a time traveller moving a rock? Yeah, that times a million.
This here. If men would give birth, they would be women.
So much of what makes up the differences between the male and female experiences is down to the fact that women give birth.
If it was the men who gave birth and not the women, we'd have pretty much everything we have now, just gender-reversed.
This assumes it simply reverses the roles so men give birth and women don't.
What if we all gave birth?
ok so i might be wrong here, but abortions can be safely and reliably carried out with pills, right?
and it's very difficult to actually check every package and letter that is sent whether it contains illegal pills. at least that's my guess. so would it be possible to buy abortion pills from the netherlands, the same way that one can buy drugs?
No, there wouldn't be.
The policy would be the same, because the issue of abortion makes the two ruling parties way too much money to make it worth legalizing or banning completely. Hell, when the leak of the Roe repeal occurred, Democrats raked in $80,000,000 alone. A cool $80,000,000 and all they had to do was pretend to care about abortion by making a tweet or something.
OP is incorrect.
If men gave birth they would be called women
You're joking but maybe that's exactly the reason why men always had it easier in history. They didn't have to spend 9 months × child suffering + menstrual cycle every month
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Then no one would have problems getting an abortion
Yes
Why
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Did you know grey hyenas have a matriarchal society? Females are more aggressive, dominant and hold different social status to males. They aren't less horrible than patriarchal hyenas.
The problem isn't the males or the females. It's that they're hyenas.
Are you a hyena?
Are you not?
And they give birth through a pseudo penis that is torn apart.
I don’t think it brings anything useful to the conversation, but it is an interesting fact.
This conversation is now about hyenas.
You're way behind. That's why laws approved are no longer named after what they really do. Who decides that a specific law harms a specific population? The same people approving them... So... Yeah.
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If men could give birth everyone would tell them to man the fuck up and deal with it.
You never see legislation on condoms.
Just birth control.
When it's a man's choice it's uncontested.
But a woman shouldn't have the same autonomy.
Not here but in Africa the Catholic Church pushed for total bans on birth control, condoms included, official in some places and socially in others. The result was huge spikes in HIV across swaths of Africa.
Also don't be surprised if there is eventually a ban on all both control, not because of actual theocratic desire, but because billionaires don't want us to have any. Deep down they know LLMs will not lead to AI powerful enough to replace all workers, like they were hoping for a few years back, so they know they need human slaves. They use evangelical idiocy to spur up theocratic chuds and convince the masses, they're one of them. But these assholes have no set ethics or morals, good or bad, just greed and powerlust.
I bet they are planning all sorts of ways to force us to have future slaves for them. Not saying it will work, I think population decline is unavoidable and not that bad tbh, but they will absolutely try.
I know project 2025 has plans for forcing teenage girls to have pregnancy.
Which is illogical even by their standards as babies more likely to be still born and premature from teenage mothers. And pregnant teen girls more likely to have complications resulting in death and permanent sterility.
We gotta get rid of these insane psychopaths before they destroy the planet and everything on it.
You never see legislation on condoms.
The Republic of Ireland wants to speak to you.
Welp
Condoms are balloons that just fit your penis, lol. Jk. This world is f-d up.
Polling suggests that around 70% of women and 50% of men support abortion, though. If those stats simply reversed then nothing really changes.
Please. Men vastly outnumber women in the legislature. If those numbers flipped there would be DRASTIC change.
Assuming a ~20% shift towards pro-choice opinions I would expect more pro-choice laws, not an orgy of casual abortions.
Dude, this is older than you. It's older than me.
It’s not that simple and I say that as a woman. It’s about ownership of the idea that having kids is a “right” even if no one likes you enough to want to carry your genes forward, putting health and body at risk to make it so. In addition to the lifelong commitment childbearing requires.
The fact that you have to take some degree of ownership of another human being to treat childbirth this way is obscene, but here we are. Roe fell.
It’s more about entitlement. I can’t conceive of doing the same in reverse positions.
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Boynecologist and boybortion should be Guynecologist and aboytion.
Just saying.
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