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Code_Name_D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-16-03 12:51 AM
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9. Testosterone is no excuse.
I'll admit it. I am a "boob man." But that is only part of who I am. And I am confident in saying that this is a vary small part of who I am. But I am no more a "boob fanatic" than some one else being just a pair, if you get my meaning. The testosterone can only account for the ogling. But thinking that there isn't a brain up stairs has nothing to do with this, and in fact has more to do with stereo-types and pre-conceived prejudices. Prejudices that have less to do with the bust line, and more to do with the fact of being a woman I would suspect.

Still, its also good to remind other that a bust line is no different than being tall. As I am told that I am, being six two. (Shrugs, I don't think this is too tall at all.) It makes me intimidating, even when I am trying to be gentle. And it is no more right to discriminate against the busty, any more than the vertically gifted (Which is more than 6' 2" as far as I am concerned.) or for being over weight.

But here is the thing. Honestly representing people on the screen, be it in the movies or on TV is the best way we have of fidgeting stereo types. And perhaps having a diversity of female (and male) forms out their, young girls might not be so pinned into being so self concuss about their weight and size. My little sister (not so little any more) ran into this in High school, of being "too big."
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