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The Sea Times did an article on this woman a few months ago, about how she calls herself "The Boob Lady" and speaks to young girls about accepting their bodies and loving their breasts. I lost any respect for the woman and stopped reading when I got to the part that said Squires hated her body until she got a breast lift. Kind of hypocritical for her to be telling others to love their bodies as is...

Plus, referring to breasts as "the girls" is idiotic.

BTW, I wonder why they didn't ask any other women what they thought about showing cleavage in the workplace in terms of "professional" appearance.

Posted by genevieve | May 30, 2007 12:35 PM
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Breast Power yes yes yes

Posted by shelbis | May 30, 2007 12:37 PM
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The woman's hands are creepy and messed up looking in this photo. She looks like she just got done strangling someone and is adjusting her blouse.

Posted by redrum | May 30, 2007 12:38 PM
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Erica, are you actually being paid less than your male counterparts? Maybe? No?

I think your head exploded a long time ago, when it comes to gender issues. Now there's just this constant shrill whistling from the void where your brain used to be.

Posted by Judah | May 30, 2007 12:39 PM
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Cleavage was WAY bigger... errr... more popular, in the late 70's-80's than it is today.

Posted by Dougsf | May 30, 2007 12:42 PM
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With breast power comes breast responsibility.

Posted by Gloria | May 30, 2007 12:44 PM
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I always figured you would skip the E cup and go right to F.

Ya know, like with grades.

Also, fuck, an E cup? God my back hurts just thinking about it.

Posted by Jordyn | May 30, 2007 12:44 PM
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure there is no E cup.

There's D, DD, DDD and DDDD which in Europe is called a G cup. And then I've heard of F cups. I don't know how that fits in.

Posted by arduous | May 30, 2007 12:48 PM
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Men pay 20% more in taxes on average than a woman working the same job.

Breast power in action.

Posted by mason | May 30, 2007 12:52 PM
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Erica, thanks for letting me know what Real feminists are interested in. I was almost thinking I was wasting my time reading the NONIE DARWISH op-ed in this morning's Post Intelligencer.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/317680_arabfems30.html

just a snippet from the article: "Islamists do not represent the hope and future of the Middle East, but the oppressive past."

lots of impressions, and I'll try to be around for a debate, but I can't help but be reminded of the William Burroughs quote,
'Let's forget the dead Empire, and build a new Republic.'

Posted by bonehead's girlfriend | May 30, 2007 12:53 PM
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@4

Ouch.

Posted by Mr. Poe | May 30, 2007 12:56 PM
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I met the "Boob Lady" (her name for herself, not mine) not too long ago. She's from Seattle. I shoulda known it was only a matter of time before her probing insights regarding boobs catapulted her to an appearance on "Good Morning America."

Posted by flamingbanjo | May 30, 2007 12:59 PM
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I wear an E! It's not made up, it's just that most stores don't ever carry them.

Oh...and "the girls" is pretty common in any suburban high school.

Posted by me | May 30, 2007 1:03 PM
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Aren't cup letter sizes pretty inconsistent across the board anyway? Besides the most common ones, there's no saying what letters exist and don't.

Posted by Gloria | May 30, 2007 1:05 PM
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Russ Meyer is spinning in his grave. Or maybe he is just jerking off.

Posted by elswinger | May 30, 2007 1:28 PM
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me @ 13: are you some sort of European or something? Is E another term for F? I'm a DD so I think I would have seen Es if they'd ever been offered, but mabye I don't get out enough.

Posted by Sarah | May 30, 2007 1:34 PM
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elsie, the all-knowing wanker

wondering impossibilities aloud is better than no intelligent opinion

Posted by keenan | May 30, 2007 1:37 PM
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i just scratch off the bottom line of the F to get an E! kind of like changing a 32 to a 31 on your levis.

Posted by infrequent | May 30, 2007 1:39 PM
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Um, sorry, you were saying?

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 30, 2007 1:48 PM
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I call bullshit on the whole concept of this "breast expert". She wrote a trashy book on boobs and is selling it on GMA with laughably false assertions like "E is the new C". This bears no relation to the real world.

But yes, extravagantly drawing attention to your girls in a work setting is unprofessional and inappropriate and not tolerated by actual grownups. Anyone wearing her blouse like the woman in the picture DESERVES to be paid 40% less.

But I don't understand Erica's outrage at all.

Posted by Fnarf | May 30, 2007 2:10 PM
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Calling breasts "the girls" isn't idiotic, it's polite and harmless. Sure, you don't sound like a brain surgeon, but at least you don't sound like some uptight freak.

At least here in America, women with larger-than-a-B-cup chests need make efforts to hide them at work to be taken seriously. Small and medium-chested women have the luxury of looking presentable without a lot of effort. It sucks and is unfair, but it's just one of those things.

After work, though, go crazy.

Posted by boobs | May 30, 2007 2:14 PM
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E is the new C because of the OBESITY EPIDEMIC.

Posted by maxsolomon | May 30, 2007 2:54 PM
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Is it not rather rediculous to suggest that boobs are somehow to be restricted to the evening soirre? I agree with the workplace thing, though the article assumes that there's a single type of workplace setting.

Boobs are great -- great and small, meek and manic. Cleavage: like the stick a parrot sits on in the cage - glad someone invented it. Fake boobs suck, as do padding and 'minimizing' -- these are dishonest boobs. Undoubting boobs are, of course, those of the most charming ladies. Real boobs don't lie.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | May 30, 2007 2:56 PM
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Calling your breasts "the girls" "the twins" or anything like that is just fucking stupid.

Calling someone else's breasts "the girls" or "the twins" is degrading and the worst kind of objectification, and it makes me want to punch you the neck.

Posted by Soupytwist | May 30, 2007 3:22 PM
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So Soupytwist, what do you call your twins?

Posted by Judah | May 30, 2007 3:29 PM
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@16 go get fitted @ Nordstrom and they have a few styles there and then you are relegated to the dreaded catalog.

@22 Obese? Not me, just tall as hell. My thoughts are that we're just taller. 15 years ago, they didn't even make long lengths in jeans for women over 5'8. Now, people may mention that I'm tall, but they don't fall over in shock.

I don't care what you call them, but punching someone in the neck over a linguistic choice seems a scosh extreme.

Posted by me | May 30, 2007 3:32 PM
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If E is the new C cup, is B the new -A?

Posted by small | May 30, 2007 3:43 PM
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Another bone to pick with the boob lady - she clearly has no idea how hard it is to find shirts that don't show cleavage. I've read in many places that deep v-neckline are supposed to visually "minimize" large chests. I completely disagree, at least in regard to myself, but anytime I go shopping for work clothes, I have a hard time finding shirts. Almost all the shirts have plunging necklines that practically go to my navel.

Posted by genevieve | May 30, 2007 8:00 PM
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Yes, the F cup does exist. I used to wear a 34-D. I thought that was the right fit. But I was fitted at Nordstrom lately, and apparently the best fit for me is a 30-F or a 32-E. Could have knocked me over with a feather. These sizes go to J or H I think.

Maybe the European sizes have changed what we think of as a D cup? Anyway, a E or F cup may not be as big as you think it is.

Posted by anonymous | May 30, 2007 8:36 PM
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And I thought that article was idiotic.

Breast power? What - are we in 7th grade?

Or is this a new comic book character? Like the friend of Wonder Woman?

Posted by anonymous | May 30, 2007 8:43 PM
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V-necks do visually minimize chest size. Ever see a large-chested woman wear a crewneck t-shirt? All you see is BOOBS. A V-neck actually accommodates a large chest properly. A wide scoop-neck does the same thing.

Posted by yup | May 31, 2007 7:05 AM
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