A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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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.
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.
Yeah but If you want empirical & objective quantification of harm, good luck.
Are you a hyena?
Are you not?
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?
what if we all gave birth 👉👈
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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
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.
In year 2000 poll, percentage of pro-choice people was 49% among both men and women. In 2006 it was 51% for both. Since 1995 and until 2020, the difference never exceeded 8%, peaking at 20% in 2025 correlating with political polarisation, with year 2010 men responding more pro-choice than women respondents by 5% (47% vs. 42%)‡.
Partisan divide was always more influential than the gender one, with pro-choice stance being 47% less popular among republican women than among democratic women; 42% gap for R/D men in 2020–2021 poll‡. If cisgender men could give birth, it wouldn't have more influence on their abortion stance than overall political beliefs.
‡ Gender Gaps on Abortion Reach Historic Highs | Gallup, June 2025
Boynecologist and boybortion should be Guynecologist and aboytion.
Just saying.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If men could give birth everyone would tell them to man the fuck up and deal with it.
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.
If men bore the children then women would have to do the sexual pursuing. The human race would quickly die out.
Stop doing drugs
Dude, this is older than you. It's older than me.
If males gave birth then it would be females that competed for access to us and became physically stronger than males. The only thing that would change is the name of the physically and politically powerful gender.
It wouldn't make society better. Hyenas have bigger stronger dominant females and they have no utopia. Seahorse males give birth, they are the more maternal, females cheat on them.
Only fundamental difference between male and female is size and motility of sex cells. Only reason animals like us vary in size and strength is due to difference in offspring investment strategies.
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 biological X CHromosone.
Old Tshirt/poster slogan I remember from the 1990’s
I went to a pro-choice march in my city and made a sign that said
"If men could get pregnant
You'd get abortions
With your oil change"
And I feel like that makes about the same point. Men wouldn't tolerate carrying an unwanted pregnancy if men had to deal with pregnancy.
If males were going pregnant they'd be females
If men got their periods we’d have a shop vac attachment that got rid of it in a few seconds.
All this post proves is that people have no fucking clue what abortion entails
There would be tactical coat hangers with camouflage paint for the DIY guys who like to work in their garages.
If there are clinics, coat hangers wouldn’t be needed.
The only reason women resort to inserting coat hangers into their uterus and endangering their lives is because of lack of access to healthcare. It’s not like a fun activity to do with your girlfriends.
Yeah but there's plenty of hicks who would gladly shove a coat hanger in their urethra (I'm assuming that's how this would work) before seeing some liberal doctor who is probably gonna sneak in a vaccine or something.