There are all sorts of stereotypes about women based solely on the shape of our body, whether
that is our height, our hair color or even yes, the size of our b-b-b-b-b-boobs.
That was a jazzy boob.
According to the 'Cultural Encyclopedia of the Breast' which is my favorite encyclopedia
on the planet because awooo-gah, a woman's breast size speaks volumes about her, no pun
intended. At least if you're a firm believer in stereotyping.
Research has found that people with smaller breasts, like these proud A-cups, as hard-working,
moral, modest, confident, intelligent and athletic probably because it always just looks
like we're wearing a sports bra.
Meanwhile, people tend to judge women with larger breasts quite differently, assuming
them to be popular, confident and sexually attractive.
But why is there that difference in intelligence stereotyping of small breasts versus larger
breasts?
This isn't just something that exists in the pages of 'The Cultural Encyclopedia of the
Breast'. This is actually something I've heard from a lot from large-breasted Stuff Mom Never
Told You fans who are sick and tired of people assuming that they are idiots based on their
cup size.
Comment Jonna for instance said, 'I'm an E cup and I've people on class assignments tell
me not to worry about doing any work because quote, "With boobs that big [I'm] probably
used to having others do everything for me." And then they'll follow up with, "That's probably
how she passes her classes with A's."' What?
Ines said, 'Being a busty woman myself, I do find that people generally have a tendency
to judge my intelligence based on this fact. Another thing I have found is that an effective
way to combat this is to only wear tops that have high necklines and are more loose fitting
than I would prefer.' How fun!
From Cecilia, 'I've always been academic, but when I was a brunette A-cup people had
no trouble with that. Now that I decided I like being blonde and grew to a DD people
say "Wow I didn't know you were smart, you don't look it"'.
Lizzy said, 'As a young women with a DD chest I for sure think that I get treated like an
idiot! How dare I have a large chest and be smart?' How could you possibly have things
up here, no that doesn't make sense, nope.
DD Paula says she deals with this all the time. 'When I ask questions, I get totally
different answers depending on what I'm wearing . If I am a little more revealing, I get dumbed
down responses and get called "honey"and "sweety" ect. If I am wearing a higher collared or
boxier shirt, I get legitimate responses to my questions using the correct terminology.
Sometimes it's the exact same people both ways.'
Pew, pew, pew. That's my mind exploding.
And there were even more comments like this all about this bizarre brain-boob stereotyping
that goes on that I personally was not aware of because as an A-cup woman no one has ever
looked at my boobs and said, 'Ugh you must be a total idiot, let me talk down to you.'
But now that it is firmly established that this happens and quite frequently and does
not feel very good at all and often makes the person talking down to those boobs look
like a real idiot, can we just stop it?
First of all, there is no scientific correlation between the size of one's breasts and intelligence
and also the only thing a woman's boobs should say about her are maybe sometimes it's a little
cold in here, maybe I'm uh, I've got pregnant boobs, maybe I really like them so I'm showing
a bit of them off today and mmmmm and I think that's about it.
Today's the day when I point to my boobs and acknowledge their existence. Size of our b-b-b-bazonkas--nope.
Jazz boobs. Aside from maybe the cultural encyclopedia of not the testicles. Ridiculous.