Comments on: Coverage Coverage

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Shhh. You’re not supposed to say “boner”.

Say “apex of my patriarchy”.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Ray, you’re overqualified for this stupid blog! This stuff is gold! GOLD!

By: Rene

Rene — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Although I’ve never seen one in real life, I’ve heard tell of a special nipple bra, which is the opposite of the special coverage bra. I read somewhere that Jennifer Aniston used to wear one on Friends. It’s a special bra with built-in prosthetic nipples for women who want to look as if they’re going braless but who also want their boobs to look round and not too saggy. Weird, very weird.

And speaking of boobs on TV, I watched the 1977 miniseries Roots on DVD over the weekend. It starts out with a scene in Gambia, in which topless Mandinka women are carrying water and doing other National-Geographic type stuff. I don’t remember anyone making a fuss about this back when the show originally aired, but maybe it never occurred to anyone to get upset because, after all, they’re just third-world nipples and not regular African-American nipples like Janet Jackson’s.

By: Twisty

Twisty — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Your nipple bra story reminds me of when I was a rock star. We were doing a CD release shindig where we all had to wear wedding dresses, so off we went to the Hullaballoo warehouse for wardrobe fittings. The only dress I could find that sort of fit me had much excess boob-room. This vexed me, so I was sent to Famous-Barr to buy a pair of what I enjoyed calling “explants”–rubbery bra inserts meant to simulate giganto-boobs. They came in nippled and un-nippled varieties. The nipply ones cost more. Oh, the good old 90’s.

By: Kyra

Kyra — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I remember reading a magazine article a few years ago, in which half a dozen or so men were interviewed on their thoughts about fake nipples. The general consensus? “They’re sexy but it’s a huge disappointment that they’re fake.” Which seems to be the general consensus on most forms of artificial “improvement” such as Wonderbras and cosmetic surgery. Ugly or fake, take your pick.

There’s a second problem, though, with the Western expectations of dress: on the one hand, we have pressure from, society, the patriarchy, the retailers, guys, et cetera, to dress one way, but then we have pressure from other people, such as other parts of society and our mothers and other parts of the patriarchy, to dress in a different way.

If I dressed the way my mother wanted me to dress, I’d be acceptable to one group and frigid/frumpy/dowdy to the other group, and if I dressed as fashion dictates and most guys seem to prefer, I’d be acceptable to them but slutty/skanky/trashy to the others. And I wouldn’t be happy with how I looked either way.

Empowerment, I think, is each person wearing what SHE feels good and confident and comfortable in, and possessing the ability to either ignore or be rude to anyone who thinks SHE should abide by THEIR fashion sense.

By: Helen Sonsoles

Helen Sonsoles — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Hey I just noticed-I don’t really shave my legs- no one even says anything anyway!