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Date: 09 June 2007 15:46:13
I posted this as a comment to a friend's blog and was so irritated about it that I'm now reposting it to half the known universe. Er, sorry about that. Original article here and it's all about what men think and it makes me so angry I want to scream. Yes, I'm overreacting, but still.
My goodness, this makes me so angry! If anyone seriously thinks that I am going to wear a minimiser bra just because some bloke thinks that large breasts are too sexualised for the office then that is their fucking problem. Because there's a fair chance that's what it is: Obviously, breasts are about sex. The sex and the office are not compatible. Therefore, we don't want large breasts in the office.
It links in to all the shite we hear about men not being able to control themselves. They can't help it, apparently. It goes way, way back through time. It's our fault if they can't concentrate on their work becuase we have a chest, it's our fault if they fancy us and we won't sleep with them, it's our fault if they rape us because we were drunk or we were wearing a short skirt or we fluttered our eyelashes the wrong way.
And I know I may be getting as bit over the top here but honestly, saying that "all women should sport medium-sized breasts in the office - by either using "a little padding" to boost their bosom, or investing in a "minimizer" to suppress it" really is just fuelling this whole idea that men are the victims of their own irrepressible sexual desires and that really is just a few steps away from blaming a woman for her own rape.
Not to mention it being extremely demeaning to men - suggesting that they're all crazed and out-of-control, nothing more than slaves to their libidos. And the crap that stems from is mostly bullshit in and of itself - from what I can make out, the average woman's sex drive is actually higher than that of the average man. But we Don't Talk About That, do we, children?