Whatever happened to feminism?
This is from a range called ‘Simply You?’
‘Simply WHO????‘ I ask.
Why wear these uncomfortable things?
Well actually it seems lots of people are interested in turning women into commodities.
And women are joining in.
I watched a programme last night about three women who want bigger breasts.
Only breasts were referred to as ‘boobs’ throughout.
Boob jobs
Big Boobs.
Small boobs.
Bigger boobs.
Booby Boobs.
I saw so many of them too.
Women are compartmentalising bits of their bodies and holding them up for scrutiny.
The body it seems has become a DIY project and we must not refer to them in any way that reminds us they are bodies.
One woman put plasrtic domes over hers every night and had a kind of vacuum suction thing on them to make them get biigger. She had bruises all round her breasts. I mean boobs. I mean breasts.
Just toys.
Boobs.
THis is true and right and good and I AGREE.
However bra buying can be an internal source of joy for the wearer only (nobody else)
and when you find a bra that fits BUY IT.
I only have one but it is so nice when it fits mostly it never does.
Comment by kate — September 5, 2006 @ 2:33 pm
Mmm, definitely, I got a nasty long blister last month from a strapless bra that had stucked to me and I didn’t realise til I had ripped it off and ouch! On the other hand … I agree about the commodification, and all this emphasis on “boobs” etc etc but actually I thought the model looked OK. (at this point I want to say things like “I never wear make up” to prove I am not a mere plaything of dominent male culture.)
Comment by Sheila Webber — September 5, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
I meant to say “stuck” there. And I don’t wear make up, though I’m not actually sure what this is a sign of, apart from personal preference. (suppose it can’t be just that
Comment by Sheila Webber — September 5, 2006 @ 3:30 pm
ooh that blister things sounds painful.
I suppose I should say that in fact I always wear make up and am very girlified … I always wear jewellery and nearly always wear make up.
I guess the thing that I really think is that we should not put ourselves through PAIN and have our bodies cut up and then call our breasts BOOBS. People have them cut open and stuff shoved inside their breasts and sewn up as if they are not really body parts.
But maybe I am OVERSENSITIVE. (Sorry I feel like doing adoloescent capital letters for emphasis. - I am not shouting.)
Comment by DrJoolz — September 5, 2006 @ 4:08 pm
No, I can’t understand cutting yourself about for no good reason, I can’t even face getting my ears piereced, and I wear earrings all the time, feeling distinctly underdressed without them.
Comment by Sheila Webber — September 5, 2006 @ 4:49 pm
From the photo, I think the lingerie line should be called “Simply Woo Hoo!”
Comment by TT — September 5, 2006 @ 7:46 pm
You are so busted TT!!!
Comment by DrJoolz — September 5, 2006 @ 9:44 pm
I vote we ban TT from commenting.
I CANNOT understand women who actually have operations to make themselves look better as I hate operations above everything else.
Comment by kate — September 6, 2006 @ 4:00 pm
Censorship
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Comment by TT — September 6, 2006 @ 8:16 pm
Well, whatever people’s viewpoints are, it appears that ‘boobs’ have made for a ‘popular’ blog entry with both sexes. Strange but true..
Comment by john — September 7, 2006 @ 10:38 pm
I’m comfortable with my thoughts about the pic you put up and what i might say about it. I feel less so about the use of avatars by females on-line. I read justifications about why it is okay to present the female self in certain ways through the use of avatars BUT as my 78 year old (on-line) mother said to me recently about one avatar -if her waist gets any thinner she will just split in half. I have to fess up that i don’t get why avatars are excluded from the feminist critique (but perhaps they are not and I have just missed it).
Comment by christina — September 8, 2006 @ 9:07 am
Yes this has been a very popular post Jhn!! Hilarous I think. And yes Christina I feel quite uncomfortable about so e of the avatars too … well I will keep reading about it all and see if I change my mind Bu at the moment I cannot do a feinist reading of those idealised woman represenations. (The right langage escapes me actually.)
Congrats re your new article btw great news!!
Comment by DrJoolz — September 9, 2006 @ 3:03 pm