I’m surprised that so many of you are so surprised by this. It’s not as if suffering from feelings of inadequacy in regards to body image is exactly a new thing. I’m a guy, and although I like to think of myself as pretty self-confident, I often find myself thinking, “maybe if I had more muscles women would like me,” or, “maybe if I lost this gut I’d be ‘cool’ and attractive.” (I’m no string bean, but am well within what is healthy for someone my height, and have been told I’m pretty good looking, too ).
For those of you who have expressed shock at the story in the OP, have you never in your life felt inadequate because of your body, and have you never acted on that (lost weight, worked out, whatever) and then felt that somehow your life would be better?
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*Originally posted by featherlou *
**She obviously has no experience with how men treat larger-breasted women - they’ll look more, not listen more. Dressing up as a man, now that will get you listened to more. Not getting bigger boobies.
i have big breasts
just because someone is looking at me doesnt mean they are listening to me
there is a difference between paying attention to someone and listening to someone
I have large breasts as well and it can be disconcerting when someone’s eyes keep travelling down…even women do this (and I’m talking about heterosexual women), though not nearly in the same proportion as men.
It’s your mind and your personality that gets paid attention to…if I acted like the stereotypical big breasted blond I might sometimes be taken for, I’d be the one bitching on this board or on Ricki Lake or something about how nobody took me seriously and getting a reduction!
And plus, if she’s made herself that big, I hope she doesn’t plan to do any sports that involve running…
Reminds me of something I once read in The Time. Describing a plump and buxom MP in a flowery dress rushing to a vote: “…reminiscent of a rhinoceros having a punch up in a rhododendron bush”.
Now now, I think this lady might be on to something. After all, we put silicon into computers and they’re smart so why not replicate this process by putting silicon into a human! Hell, she’s probably got the computer equivalent of 4 kb’s of RAM chugging away in her teats as we speak. I’m sure she can do all sorts of, uh, stuff or whatever now. No really…
I don’t see anything wrong with women getting breast implants to make themselves feel better. I think that its unfortunate that some people feel the need to do this, but if these implants make them feel better about themselves, and give them more confidence (which WILL make people listen to them), it’s their choice.
I’m not always the most extroverted or confident person in the world, but my self-image greatly affects my confidence level. It would be hard for me to walk out into the world without combed hair and nasty, unwashed, ill-fitting dorky clothes each day with a confident smile and a spring in my step. I don’t think that any woman should be uncomfortable with the sixe of their breasts, but if they want to have cosmetic surgery to change that, I don’t have a problem with it.
You see, what actually happens is the breast implants act as resonating chambers (much like the heads of elephants) and amplify the voice. She becomes more likely to be listened to because she is easier to hear. It’s all very scientific.
treemae, I think the issue here is not her getting breast implants for self-confidence or whatever, but the belief that the larger the chest you have, the more people LISTEN to you.
I would think [DANGER, WILL ROGERS! HOLY SPECULATION, BATMAN!] that someone who was fixated on big breasts would listen more when the breasts were small if only because s/he would be more distracted by bigger breasts (and thus might even tune out the voice in favor of the breasts).
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