I think women who wear padded bras should be mocked just so they stop wearing them and there’s no more nipple hiding. The dearth of nipples poking through shirts these days is depressing.
I’m not sure what sort of strawman you have constructed in your head about who you are arguing against, but you’ve got it all wrong.
Here’s a clue as to how old I am and whether I’ve seen a real woman.
Good point.
Maybe a better comparison would have been if guys wore something under their shirts to make their pecks look more muscular and their shoulders broader. I’m pretty sure just as many guys would look better in t-shirts and shirts with more muscular pecks and broader shoulders, as there are women who look better in their clothes with breast-enhancing bras (of the various varieties)
Since such peck and shoulder enhancing underwear for men doesn’t exist AFAIK, the analogy is too far fetched though.
You mean like shoulder pads, which are built into just about every single male business suit?
Well, not just shoulder pads. The hypothetical men’s undergarment would also make the pecks look bigger/more muscular. Can you imagine what a woman would think if she found out the guy she met was wearing one of these under his t-shirt?
However, point taken about the shoulder pads in male business suits.
I’d say shoulder pads are a pretty good counter point to padded bras. Women like men with big, broad shoulders and such a thing is considered generally sexy. Men like women with big, round, high titties and such a thing is considered generally sexy. Thus, we each pad. There ya go’.
That’s a pretty good wrap up for this thread…
Those of us with, uh…protrudingness, though need that padding. Hell, I’ve been known to show some even on the hottest day through a couple of layers. It’s…intense.
Because men like breasts.
Look, I know exaclty the size and shape of my wife’s breasts so any padding/enhancing qualities of her bras won’t fool me. HOWEVER, when she wears her “I’m-Pamela-Anderson” bra I ogle like a horny 15-year-old.
And my husband knows when I am wearing what he calls my “bullet proof” bras.
There are just some outfits I have that look better with an enhanced bust. Without a bra, I am shapeless. With a regular bra, I have 2 small bumps, with a padded push-up I look more shapely, with the VS Incredible bra, I have cleavage.
I am very tempted to buy the bathing suit version for trips to the beach. I am not wearing it for anyone else, but for myself. Kind of a much cheaper version of what I would look like if I had a boob job.
The rest of my body I am 99% happy with. I almost have a six pack, I don’t have any cottage cheese on my thighs, my butt is a little lower than it used to be but hasn’t flattened out and is still round. I am toned and fit, I go to the gym to keep from getting the mid 30’s spread.
Going to the gym isn’t going to increase my breast size, and I do not want to get implants. Having my “special occasion” boobs in the drawer is good enough for me.
The two quoted sentences are different things. My wife is positively gifted in the cup-size department. I most certainly don’t “only want her boobs.” Neither do I “really not care about her cup size.” That aspect of her is one of maybe a hundred things I find attractive about her, and I don’t think she minds that it is.
More broadly, I am trying to get my brain wrapped around the OP’s essential question. So, the hypothetical single me is out at a bar, or wherever the kids go to meet one another these days, and I meet a woman. Unbeknownst to me, but knownst to us, she is a B-cup, but she is wearing a padded bra that makes her appear to be a C-cup.
We have a conversation, hit it off. We fast forward the evening to someplace private. We’re mutually attracted to one another. There is kissing. At some point, her shirt and bra come off, and what appeared to be a C-cup is actually a B-cup.
Now I’m alone with a topless woman who is attracted to me and to whom I am attracted. Is the question why I don’t point and laugh at her padded bra?
Minnie Luna: I <3 <3 <3 the idea of ‘special-occasion’ boobs!
I cannot shop Victoria: her Secret is “no band size over 38” (42 here)
but I have a few bras and necklines that change me from Big Strong Woman to OOO Baby!
I save those for times when I want to be looked at 
This is so true. I was shopping for clothes in Japan one day, and came across the bra department. Holy shit, those babies were ALL padding. The were basically just a whole bunch of foam breasts with straps on them. I found it amusing.
I’ve been in relationships with women on opposite sides of the breastage scale. The one who had very large breasts tended to go to some effort to make them seem smaller. The one who had very small breasts was (when we started) very self-conscious and wore padded bras that made her look like a woman with small breasts. She seemed to change her attitude over the time we spent together, and eventually would wear anything from what I called a “nothing bra” to a padded B-ish cup, depending on her mood. I never had an issue because whenever I saw her naked breasts I was invariably with a naked or half-naked woman.
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Padded bras are for looks, they are no different than wearing make up or shaving your legs. A padded crotch implies a better sexual experience that you are not properly equipped to deliver, very different situation.
You live up to your name very well.
Or, in some case, worse.
Yes, that’s exactly the question in the OP :rolleyes:
Look, for fuck’s sake, society has a way of frowning on some practices, without having people literally pointing and laughing at other people.
For example, some short men wear elevator shoes to make them look taller. Whenever this topic has come up, in discussions, on TV, on message boards, etc, the reaction of people was, on average, that men who wear these shoes are fake, losers, laughable, etc. If you’re a short guy, and you see these sorts of reactions in various places and discussions, you start to get the point that “hey, this is something people ridicule, maybe I shouldn’t buy such a pair of shoes”. No one has to point at them and laugh to get the point.
To paraphrase your hypothetical:
So, the hypothetical single woman is out at a bar, or wherever the kids go to meet one another these days, and she meets a man. Unbeknownst to her, but knownst to us, he is 5’6", but he is wearing elevator shoes that make him appear to be 5’9" .
They have a conversation, hit it off. We fast forward the evening to someplace private. They’re mutually attracted to one another. There is kissing. At some point, his shoes come off, and what appeared to be a 5’9" guy is actually a 5’6" guy.
Now she’s alone with man who is attracted to her and to whom she is attracted. Is the question why doesn’t she point and laugh at his elevator shoes?
You see, the above question is ridiculous, because only the most callous women would ever point and laugh in the above scenario, and yet, in general society does mercilessly make fun of men with elevator shoes.
So, the question in the OP is not “why don’t men who find out about women with cup-increasing bras point and laugh”, but “why doesn’t society make cup-increasing bras seem as unacceptable, fake, loserish, as elevator shoes for men”?
(For the record, I don’t want for society to do the above, I’m just curious why it doesn’t. Some people in this thread have given some good plausible reasons)
Yeah, ditto to the responses above.
I have a VS Miraculous bra. It is, indeed, a miracle. Whoa. I mean, i have lovely average size breasts, but in that thing… hello Joan from Mad Men! Awesome. My boyfriend obviously knows whats really under there, but when I wear it, he is 15 again. Its adorable and fun. And I have had occasion to wear it, and remove it, for a couple other men. I don’t think they really noticed that I was far smaller after it was off, but I know they didn’t care, because, oh! What’s this? A topless woman fondling herself!
The bra on the floor just wasn’t a concern anymore.