The breast (boobs, tits, jugs) is an incredibly politicized area. Neither men nor women are permitted to show their privates, yet men walk around shirtless regularly. The breast and the nipple have experienced decades of censorship, seen even today with Instagram’s censoring of nipples and its protestors.
Feminists in the 1960s burned their bras in rejection of control of the female body – the hosts Jackie Huntington and Brenna Full of Refinery29 evoke such protest by throwing their own bras on a fire. Maybe too grand a statement for many of us, but we women can start by being more comfortable with their own breasts and hiding them less and second by not judging or shaming women who expose their breasts to a greater degree.
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