Does anyone here believe these torture devices were created to make women LOOK better not FEEL better. Sigh. Hell I am starting to believe I’d rather wear a burka, nice contrast to all the stripper wanna be’s I seem to be encountering more and more.

I’m losing weight….a lot of it. And once I reach my goal, a breast reduction and lift are going to be mandatory because there simply IS NO BRA that is going to keep these sagging, now-flat wallets that I can almost fold back over themselves in place. Plus, bacteria LOVES me and my sweat, and I have to duck into the bathroom at least every three hours to wash and reapply the only powder I’ve found that works day after day after day without irritation–non-talc vaginal powder. They tell you if you have stinky feet to wear ventilated shoes and to pack extra socks? I take a washcloth and an extra bra to work! Yes, I now throw away bras because they’ve become too large for me, but at one time I was throwing them away because there was no way to get them clean. It is a horrible feeling to put on a “clean” bra and realize before you’ve finished the drive to work that your body heat has activated the smell in the fabric.

I don’t care if it’s the faux-disease of breast ptosis. I don’t care if you think my consideration of such a procedure keeps me from being a feminist. Bite me.

But I do have to say that the diagram and description just have a way of making me worry. Breasts are heavy, wiggly, stretchy things (bless their hearts) and I have a hard time imagining any material for those tiny suspensory wires that could stretch enough to acommodate all that breast movement and still be firm enough to actually provide support. Ligaments are pretty fragile-looking things and they manage it, but, after all, they’re elastic enough to let the boobs flop around freely and that’s the whole reason this is being invented in the first place.

Someone gets paid for this shit.

Seriously folks, the dudely folk inventing and testing this technology absolutely 100% do *not* have your breast comfort in mind when they’re doing so. I promise you that their intentions have everything to do with the same old bs about the aesthetic expectations that women must to live up to in order to get the only appreciation we’re accorded in a patriarchal society.

In fact, I’ve just read through the article again to be sure and absolutely nowhere in there do they speak to the issues of back pain or large breasts. It’s aesthetic through and through and they never say otherwise.

Yet how many of the women responding here are concerned with back pain and issues related to having large breasts? If this is such a huge concern for us, as women, how come it doesn’t rate even a one-sentence mention in this article? If sensitivity post-surgery is such an important thing that it gets mentioned over and over here, why doesn’t it rate a mention as a potential benefit of this procedure over more invasive surgeries (from reading the article it’s hard to say if this would be a benefit, but that seems to be speculation here)?

Women’s comfort is not what they’re concerned with. Women’s health is not what they’re concerned with. Women’s sexual pleasure and enjoyment of their own bodies is *not* what they’re concerned with. Their concern is that women maintain patriarchy-approved attractiveness in the form of perky breasts, breasts that defy gravity and look bouncy and full and “young” long after that would be practical in reality.

“All the women said, ‘I want to be the first one!’ It was like a fire in the fields! Everyone was very enthusiastic about the idea,” he said. “The aesthetic market is growing rapidly; most women are willing to try things out – it’s becoming like a trend.”

Yes. It is.