When she appeared on Late Night with David Letterman a few years back (around the time she was leaving the cast of Wicked on Broadway), Dave jokingly invited her to participate in their “Will It Float?” sketch.
Nothing wrong with dismissing women as incapable of intellectual achievement because of their breast size? How do you feel about skin color? It’s the EXACT SAME THING!
“They may have made a gag out of her breasts, and played them up in the dialogue (and thus the entertainment news), but I don’t think they’re particularly large.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt (who says she calls her breasts “Thelma” and “Louise”) got cast a few years ago to play Audrey Hepburn. They must have used enough tape to wrap a mummy to keep those in check (movie was fairly watchable too).
But my point was that people assume this even when it doesn’t make sense. Daniel Jackson is not just a scientist. He was judged fit enough to go on a military operation, and had to learn to live in a technologically primitive society. And now he’s in the main military division to visit other worlds. There’s absolutely nothing wrong with such a character being buff.
In fact, I’d say there’s a bigger problem with bustier actors in similar roles. It seems that women in more athletic fields have smaller breasts, or at least have to keep them well supported, while, in movies, they are often very big and quite loose.
Some people consider Boardwalk Empire’s Paz de la Huerta to be busty, but I’d put her in the " simply has breasts" category. Modern Family’s Julie Bowen is actually enhanced and she still hasn’t achieved bustiness.
I looked at the previously supplied pictures and did judge for myself. Even when trying to emphasize them, it doesn’t say “busty” to me. YMMV.
I wouldn’t qualify her as “quite busty”. She has breasts, but they aren’t that big. And that magazine cover photo does not match the prior images for her boob size. I strongly suspect photoshop.
She’s lovely, but I don’t think “well-nourished” is an adjective that describes her.
If she’s a D, she’s a small D. Even thrusting out her chest, I don’t register her as “busty”. She has breasts, yes, and the cut of her clothes emphasizes them, especially her cleavage, but even with that extra effort, they don’t seem that big. When she has to work at it to get you to notice they’re there, that isn’t “busty”.
I can’t see most of the Julia L-D pics because I’m at work, but she did much of one episode with her shirt off, affording a lengthy appraisal of her upper torso. She has an attractive chest, certainly, but those are B-cups (on the small side) if I ever saw them.
ETA: from where I sit, JLD wears about the same size as my girlfriend. One day, my GF accidentally purchased a bra with some…enhancing features. My GF looks much more bosomy than JLD when undergirded by this serendipitous garment.
One series where the dearth of bosomy women is actually distracting is Dexter. With the exception of Lauren Vélez (whose figure is more blocky than hourglass), every featured actress I can remember has been flat-chested almost to a fault. Jaime Murray was perhaps a B-cup; most other actresses on the show could probably run very comfortably in just a t-shirt.
Complicating this discussion is the fact that there is no clear system for describing breast size. Bra sizing is a hodge-podge if incoherency.
In particular, note:
This is because the method of determining cup size is based upon the circumference around the chest, comparing a measurement around the breasts to a measurement around the ribcage. This is not an effective way to consistently measure breast volume, which is what most people intent when they use cup sizes (D cup vs B cup).
The effect of this is that a woman with a 27" ribcage wearing a D cup will have a lot smaller breasts than a woman with a 36" ribcage wearing a D cup.
StusBlues said:
Case in point - she may well be a D cup on a small ribcage, and you expect D to match a larger ribcage.
Hey, I don’t know what her cup size is. I just know when I look at those they don’t look that big. “Busty” is a relative measure of breast size appearance, so one person’s “busty” may be another’s “meh”, or whatever.
Personally, I measure by how much fits in my mouth. Or should that be :o ?
Or should that be :o ?
