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Cleavage and Its Discontents
How we react to boobs says a lot about us.
Every so often, someone likes to belittle me. I’ll share an example. Some of my satirical tweets appeared on TV a couple of years ago. Others found their way into newspapers. Of course, my little accolades set off alerts in every mom’s basement in North America.
The trolls came out to do their thing.
They linked my success to my anatomy. Right before musing about why their tweets didn’t get more attention.
“Maybe I need a pushup bra,” one of them whined.
And here I was, thinking eyebrows were the new boobs.
Tweets are a strange thing to get upset about. Some people — including women — like to equate even your most trivial wins with anything other than your brain. Tits just give losers an easy excuse.
We live in a world that still separates body and mind, needs and desires, sex and intellect. Some of us still think sex somehow taints or corrupts everything.
Our troubled attitudes toward sex in modern civilization cause a lot of problems like this one. Even people who claim to be liberated and open-minded still cast their share of judgment. We…
