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If you wear a bra, do you wish you didn't have to anymore?

Asked by Simone_De_Beauvoir (39052points) May 18th, 2011

As I shared this post with some of you earlier on Facebook, I kept thinking about the double standard discussed in the article which mainly centers around the fact that those perceived as men are allowed to be topless and those perceived as women are not. The picture of the model in the post linked got everyone upset because it was gender-bending and made people feel unable to discern whether it was ‘obscene’ or not (placed in quotes because the concept of obscenity is kind of ridiculous, in my opinion) – apparently, since it appeared to look like female breasts (to some), it was now inappropriate.

This double standard feeds into the necessity for certain people (mainly people perceived as women with breasts deemed larger than appropriate..since those who have A cups are found less upsetting if they don’t wear a bra) to wear a bra. I, for one, would like to NEVER wear one but I, obviously, can’t do that since it would be considered unprofessional at work and lead to certain homicidal tendencies within me when I’d walk in the street and get even more comments than usual.

So I ask you this, does it not frustrate the hell out of you that you have to wear a bra? And if you wear a bra, do you wish you didn’t have to?

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