Boob prejudice: an international sickness that must be cured
Yersterday, Maria blogged about “Boob Shame.”
Today, I am going to tackle what may be one of the causes of boob shame.
Boob prejudice.
Breast bigotry.
Cleavage discrimination.
On this day, I am going to rant and rail against what we at SCORE have called “boob prejudice” in society.
It can lead to girls wearing clothes and bras that minimize their chests, something that sucks big time.
Street creeps making filthy comments to busty girls walking past them might be the most obvious and blatant example of boob prejudice, but it’s not as insidious as:
Employers declining to hire women because they have large breasts, thinking that the bustier the woman, the dumber or more incompetent she is.
School teachers treating busty students poorly, thinking that for every rise in bra-cup number, the IQ number is lower.
Classmates bullying or making fun of a well-endowed classmate.
Stand-up comedians heckling busty audience members.
Busty politicians being criticized…no wait, skip that. There are no busty politicians. Why? Because boob-bigots won’t vote them into office!
Do U.S. companies show boob prejudice against busty job applicants?
Instead of going on and spewing my dissatisfaction like this, I’m going to publish some excerpts from our interviews so the models themselves can recount the big-boob prejudice they have encountered.
Tatiana Blair: “I never had any trouble with the boys. It was the girls who were very mean to me.”
Melonie Max: “I was teased. A lot. It was rough while I was growing up. The girls hated me. But all the boys liked me. And I was always the new girl in town because my step dad was in the military, so I moved around a lot. So, I was always new and all the girls hated me and all the boys liked me.”
Autumn-Jade: “I thought I was a freak of nature. I had these really big boobs and I didn’t know what to do with them. Not like now. They called me names like watermelon patch or jugs. I would just look at them and laugh at them. I wouldn’t let them know that they hurt my feelings.”
Autumn had a ball.
Brianna Costello: “When I’m at the car wash, people just stop and stare, and I really think that when they’re looking at me, they’re having judgmental thoughts about my big boobs. A lot of them aren’t looking at my boobs because they like big tits, although I know a lot of the men do. They’re looking at me because they’re thinking things like, ‘Oh, she has no class,’ or, ‘She’s not a proper Southern lady,’ whatever that is. So I’ve come up with naming them boob-prejudiced people.”
Joy Juggs: “All of the girls’ boyfriends looked at my boobs, and they all wanted to talk to me, and the other girls didn’t like that too much. They all thought I was trashy and slutty and slept around a lot just because I had big boobs. At that time, I was actually still a virgin.”
Bre: “One time, we were at this pep rally and all these guys were saying, ‘You stuff your bra! You stuff it with toilet paper!’ I lifted up my shirt and I said, ‘Yeah, that’s right. I stuff it with my titties.’ I got in trouble and got suspended. I was always getting in trouble in school. That’s why I had to home school. I would always get sent to in-school suspension for wearing little skirts and little tops. I hated school because I always got into trouble for no reason, just because of what I wore.”
There’s a lot more of this on-file, but I’m starting to boil over with anger and rage re-reading it. So let’s move on to some happier recollections because I can’t handle any more personal recounts of boob prejudice.
Michelle May can hold her own against bullies.
Michelle May: “I got a lot of smiles and winks from a lot of the guys. I wouldn’t say that I was hated on because I went to school in California and everyone showed a lot of skin. I mean, it is commonplace for people to walk around half-naked in California. I would say that I was the flavor of the week for maybe a week and then people got over it. I got the nickname Shelly Big Boobs and Tits McGee. It was all in good fun. No one ever went out of their way to be nasty to me.”
Kaytee Carter: “If a guy comes up to me and says, ‘You have big tits,’ I’ll say, ‘You’re a fucking genius.’ And I make fun of him. If a guy comes up to me and says, ‘You have ginormous tits,’ I’ll make fun of him, but I’m not mad at him.”
Carrie Ashton: “A lot of the guys would say stuff about them, but I think it was more, um, perverted than malicious. They wanted to touch them or talk about them. All of the girls pretty much left me alone.”
Joy Juggs: “The guys all treated me very well. Anything I wanted, they would get for me. If I needed my pencils sharpened, they would sharpen them for me. If I forgot to do my homework, they would do it for me. That all started quick when I got into high school. I think I caused a lot of problems with guys and girls. Not on purpose, mind you.”
Jasmine Shiraz: “I got away with murder. I could do just about anything and I wouldn’t get in trouble with the male teachers. I remember throwing something at one of my teachers, and I didn’t get in trouble at all.”
Boob prejudice must be stamped out in our time. Instead of spending more money on another war in the Middle East, our tax money should be allocated to public education and awareness to eliminate this form of social discrimination.
