Brit: Do you know who Andrea Gibson is.
Me: Is that a serious question? Are you also going to ask me if I know who Tegan and Sara are? I'm offended.
I am about to go on an angry feminist rant, so prepare yourself.
Okay, so you see that? Many women will understand what this is by first sight, but for those of you who are stuck for a second, I’ll help you out. This is most of the underwire of a bra. I’ll provide a bit of a back story. For most of my life, I’ve had pretty large breasts. I started developing in about 2nd grade and pretty much haven’t stopped yet. I’m also quite large in most other areas of my body, which makes my boobs stand out not as much, but nonetheless, they are there. Currently I wear about a 38-40 DD or DDD. Not only is it a pain in the ass getting fitted for a bra, getting fitted wrong for a bra and then spending 50+ dollars on it. They break. they wear out. The bra that contained this wire lasted me about 8 months before one day I bent over the wrong way and the underwire broke. I accidentally put on this bra again today and it poked me all day and then when I pulled out the wire I got exceedingly angry as I held the metal in my hands.
If you know me, you know I don’t wear clothes unless I am outside of my room with a large group of people. I hate wearing pants and I especially detest wearing bras. They aren’t comfortable to me, and I have been forced into them since I was in the second grade. At age 8 was when I first started with this conformist tradition that I have stuck to for the next 12 years. And the more I think about it, the angrier I get. I am literally holding up a piece of my body, in a place that it doesn’t naturally go, for 8+ hours a day, every day. And for what? Some may answer this question with “so clothes can fit me right” or “it’s more comfortable to me this way”. If it’s more comfortable to you, get crazy, wear that bra. But if you are doing it because clothes are made to fit a body type that everyone in the world has conducted the norm. Than this is even more utter bullshit. I am having a piece of metal connected with cloth hold my breasts inches higher than they naturally rest so that I can be seen as more attractive, or as classy, or normal. When putting this on is something we have made normal.
I’m a lesbian. I objectify women all the time. I know it’s wrong. But I do it. And I like boobs, But if we are doing this to be seen as more attractive or normal, there is something seriously wrong with society. I know this not new news to anyone, but I just can’t keep these words in my head right now. The only thing I can think of, is imagine if a male had to have a metal wire under his testicles for 8 hours a day. Pushing them away from his body, and this is what society sees as normal? That seems just as wrong to me! I just think that this is all utter bullshit and this post is rambly but ignore it. I just really hate society and bras at the same time. And I think the fact that I have to spend 50 dollars on a bra, because my breasts are large, so that they will fit into a shirt that I bought so society can see me as normal just makes me want to scream.
