[strongirl]

I second that - Angie is amazing!

Hey, I saw an article yesterday about that chick Heidi Montag who recently had 10 plastic surgeries at once, including a major upsizing to her already gi-normous breast implants, in which she said that now her body "looks great" but is extremely fragile and she is no longer able to run or hug anyone. Can you imagine? Those two things are so central to my quality of life that living without them sounds like pure hell. I can't fathom what it must be like to find more importance in having humongous fake boobs than expressing affection with a hug or feeling the freedom of running. I mean, it's her body and I defend her right to do what she wants with it. But gosh. I found it terribly terribly sad.

[koffeewitch]

angie21, I always love your comments; your insight is first rate and your posts are delicious. Just sayin'.

[angie_21]

I agree 100% kw. It's a combo of a marketing strategy to get guys more interested in a movie franchise with mostly female fans... and it's also your typical movie exec douchebaggery, where they can judge exactly what they want women to look like, and turn down everyone else regardless of acting skills or physical abilities. Working anywhere else, a comment like that on the job posting would be grounds for legal action, but somehow in film its acceptable. Size 4 only need apply?

It's not like they're even saying they want to escape the typical slim but giant-chested women's proportions because they're unrealistic and hurt women, what they actually said was "the audience can spot fake breasts" and they need them to move freely in action sequences the way real breasts do. So what can you possibly interpret from this? They plan on fliming action sequences with "beautiful female fit models" running and jumping around with camera shots specifically designed to showcase their bouncing breasts. If they really cared just about the realism, they could have camera shots designed specifically NOT to focus on the breasts, and the audience would never notice if they were fake or not. Or put them in costumes that covered/supported the chest area, so no bouncing necessary.

Kera, that 007b website has been around for AGES. It used to be pretty awesome - nothing was categorized like that and it was much more focused on body image and just showing how much variety there is to real breasts. Now it seems to be focused on natural breastfeeding, and it's messier and not as useful for body image issues.

[koffeewitch]

That's awesome, buttercups. I hope you can hold on to that feeling!
Casting call for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie says only women with "real breasts" need apply -- nobody with implants. I like this blogger's take: What amazes me is that these filmmakers don't realize that they created the desire for the "fake" breasts that they are trying to avoid, because their version of "natural" simply doesn't exist.

I Didn't know about this casting call from Pirates, but WHAT BUSINESS is it of theirs anyway?! In theory, an actor is hired for their acting ability and yes, to look the part of the role. This makes the paranoid part of my brain think that they want to put a bunch of hottie chickies in sexy nightgowns and secretly wink at the ogling public as if to say, "and yes, THEY"RE REAL". Disney (WHO OWNS MOST OF THE PORN COMPANIES IN THE NATION) can not seriously take a stand against implants after all this time. I will never NEVER never buy it. This "no implant" thing is about a million bucks too short and 30 years too late.

[buttercups]

Wow that just reinforces for me why I just shouldn't get implants. I admit I do think about it every now and then as an easy escape, but it's just not worth my health. Thanks for posting that AP! Padded bras will just have to do, and while I often find them uncomfortable at least they won't explode in my chest! It's going to weird some day far in the future when implants are in a museum and people are going to walk by and think "oh god people actually used to put plastic in their bodies! " - it's going to seem like some crazy procedure from the past like foot binding (which may still be done I'm not sure ). I can't wait for that day.

[auralpoison]

At first I thought this was an April 1st joke, but it's not. Another reason that small breasts are fine & that you should stay the hell away from implants. Apparently they've come under fire in Oz, too.

[KeraBear]

Have any of you ever been to that web site 007b.com? It is about breasts and for the most part it is a pretty positive web site and it has a great gallery of "real" breasts. My biggest problem with it though is that there is a body image section divided into subsections for women with large breasts, women with small breasts, and "flat-chested" women. This bothers me because i absolutely hate the term flat chested. I dunno, it just feels derogatory to me. It also really bothers me because it seems to imply that the "flat-chested" women do not even belong in a breast category. After all, why not include it under "small breasts." I mean, c'mon!

[anarch]

That's awesome, buttercups. I hope you can hold on to that feeling!


Casting call for the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie says only women with "real breasts" need apply -- nobody with implants. I like this blogger's take: What amazes me is that these filmmakers don't realize that they created the desire for the "fake" breasts that they are trying to avoid, because their version of "natural" simply doesn't exist.

[buttercups]

Quick little off-topic story.

Last night I was with my bf getting out of the shower and started complaining about my boobs being small for some reason,( I don't remember why but it had to do with whatever convo we were having) and he just looked at me and just said "they're perfect". It was so sweet * sigh * Sometimes I think that boy is winning me over...

[anarch]

I watched Lovely and Amazing over the weekend, & loved how the love interest for Emily Mortimer's character said point blank (not ordering, but in a non-judgmental, hoping kind of way), "Don't get a boob job."

(I couldn't figure out where I'd seen her before, and then when I looked her up I remembered -- she was the sister-in-law in Lars and The Real Girl.)

[KeraBear]

Hey girls! So I finally got around to watching Avatar at the weekend, yay for small boobies! So happy they had the woman athletic and small boobed! Now if the rest of hollywood would take note and stop filling their breasts with plastic!

Speaking of Hollywood, I just watched "Alice in Wonderland" and fell in love with the actress who played Alice. Not only was she rocking the small boobies, but she was rocking armor and slaying dragons. Whadda women i tell ya! POW! WHAMMO! LOL

[spot-on]

Hey girls! So I finally got around to watching Avatar at the weekend, yay for small boobies! So happy they had the woman athletic and small boobed! Now if the rest of hollywood would take note and stop filling their breasts with plastic!

[enfermera]

yay, boob pics although the third one just made me think "so THAT'S why you're not supposed to take a bath during your period..."

i'd read about that casting call...i thought it was nice that they were going for a more natural look, although, of course, their other size restrictions are typical hollywood.

i'm rockin a black tank top and no bra today; walked the dog and felt just fine, not too conspicuous. i love warm weather!

[starship]

What do you all think of this?

also...few pictures i thought were nice for ye ladies (nudity warning):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhundley/1470217396/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fedalove/4336366410/

http://weheartit.com/entry/274091

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edfreeman/275...157606693303511

i love the way the last one looks like a classcial painting but is actually a modern photograph- women still look the same darnit

[angie_21]

You'd have to read the actual journal article to know what was going on. How did they select the men? (did they do anything to try to eliminate cultural bias?) And what kind of photos did they show? were all the women in similar poses, in similar outfits? how did they define shapely vs thin? A lot of people these days define very thin women as being shapely, because it's become the norm. And the pose of the woman, sexualized vs non-sexualized, could have made ALL the difference in how the male brain reacted.

[nbdx0645]

I don't buy that for one second. I've caught plenty of men checking me out, and I'm rather skinny. My field study disproves their experiment. =P

[buttercups]

Ugh here is something I read in Globe magazine today that really pissed me off (not a credible source I know, but I still hate seeing these things!)

"Why Men Have Roving Eyes:
Scientists have found that ogling shapely women gives men the same high they'd get from drugs or alcohol. When guys check out a sexy hourglass figure, a part of their brain triggers a feeling of 'reward'. But super-skinny gals just don't spark the same reaction, say researchers at Georgia Gwinnett College, who wired up men to brain scan machines and showed them photos of a variety of women."

Guess no guy ever feels "high" looking at me. So stupid!

[strongirl]

I agree - Angie, that was an incredibly insightful perspective. Wow.

[anarch]

now that we have the technology to actually photograph people as they are, the goal is to brush away the very things that make people look real. It such a bizarre paradox. The actually realize that oil paintings from the 1600s are more like people today than photographs from today... mindblowing!

Huh, I've never heard it put like that before. Thanks for the insight.

[enfermera]

tree, those tats are lovely. i can't imagine how painful it would be to get real ones in that area, though!

crinoline, the first thing i noticed when i clicked on the link to that painting is how beautiful she is! i think it's sad that the idealized look these days is so plastic, and not resembling actual flesh. when my ex (who studied art and photography) first saw me naked, with my double a's and my soft waist, he actually said, "you remind me of an artist's model. like: this is what naked should look like."

spot on, i, too, always thought "real women have curves" referred more to things like hips and waists, not so much boobs. i guess these ladies meant it differently, though. frankly, i've always been kind of thin and not terribly curvy, even in the non-boob areas, but i still have more curves than a boy, or some of the stick-thin high fashion models. eh.