Thank you. Yeah, this is not a situation where large-breasted women are privileged over small-breasted women, and therefore any comments by bosomy women are oppressive and derailing. This is a symptom of female oppression that affects ALL of us negatively, but is manifested differently depending on which end of the…

I agree with some of what you're saying, but I did feel the need to chime in, as someone who would NEVER be considered to have much of a chest and yet I wear a 30D. I was 25 before I went to a bra fitter, and always wore a 34B pushup, because my boobs are fairly small. When I had two different fitters measure me at…

"Favored large breasted women"? "Ogling, back pain, and the inability to wear a size 0 top"? You pretty clearly think that women with larger breasts are essentially complaining about nothing, but women with smaller breasts have real and legitimate reasons to feel bad. I basically fall somewhere in the middle, but it's…

But I think often people without large (and I mean really freaking large) breasts don't realize that these breasts aren't considered part of the ideal either. There's a size where breasts can no longer ever be perky, because that's just not how gravity works. I remember watching shows on plastic surgery growing up and…

I get it. Discussions about small boobs can get swallowed up when so many commenters want to talk about the difficulties of having big boobs (part of that is just the fact that there seem to be more large-breasted commenters). But this is not analogous to conversations about a marginalized group where members of the…

Ha, I'm sorry, but at first I pictured champagne *flutes*, not the wide, shallow champagne glasses, and I thought, "wow, that's an interesting shape..."

No, you know what? Fuck that. Yeah, our culture makes life hard for women with small breasts. It also makes life hard for women with large breasts. Frankly, it makes having breasts of any size a liability. But combating the idea that there's an "ideal" breast size is not about deciding which end of the spectrum has it…

But there are many different ways to fail at being ideal. I have big breasts - but then I lack the flat stomach, firm legs complete with gap, or small tight ass that are also just as idealized by men as big breasts? So I don't see how a small breasted women with a completely fit and toned body would be any worse off?…

Most complicated is that when I see myself naked in front of a mirror, I think my a cups look really really sexy. I love my body. I have big hips, an ass that won't quit and these cute, perky little a cups that I find totally sexy. It's when I start comparing myself to others that I start to feel as if I am lacking-or…

The arrogance never ceases to amaze me on that front. I like to remind those dudes, "Do you really think we women breathe a sigh of relief because you, one person on the entire planet, has approved one of my physical characteristics to be 'okay' with you?"

I get that people are tired about the glut of "ermagerd brown countries are so scary" articles in the media landscape since the beginning of time. But it seems that the author actually did her due diligence - talking with the women and quoting them, getting multiple perspectives, and actually NOT making a blanket…

YES.

And apparently we should ignore those people in the country who also have a problem with the practice and are working to change it?

Okay, so what is the alternative? Rose George should have not written this at all?

I think we should concentrate our actions on how we can make sarah2k2 live without access to a toilet, sanitary napkins, sleeping outside on the dirty ground fearing snakebites and rape. Let's see how fast she changed her tune.

I think sarahk2k swallowed a book on theortical discursive lingo and is hellbent on using it since it's so much easier to disappear into your pseudo academic ivory tower instead of actually giving a shit.

I see your point, but at the same time I am grateful to this writer for putting this story out there. Awareness is the beginning, now bring on more stories, more voices.

showing you didn't even read the article properly, because it is illegal.

I don't know. How about we create an environment where Nepalese Americans can start projects to combat this kind of shit?

You know what? If having access to a toilet, sanitary napkins, and not having to sleep outside and fear rape or snakebites is "Western Propaganda," bring it on. This is a human rights issue for millions of women, who are being denied an education and a future over a biological process they have no say in. Culture…