Check out my comment thread here with some links to help you find more interesting bras in your size (the first shop link definitely carries your size - in UK sizing you’d be a 52F per their conversion charts) - https://www.theroot.com/1820945361
😂 well, I think that’s what the various pics in the Curvy Kate blog post about their new strapless bra was supposed to be showing: that you wouldn’t have to worry about it (though I remain skeptical 😄)
I think I posted this vid (from nearly a decade ago now(!)) a while ago on The Root, but this piece definitely deserves it to be shared again, Monique:
Also, apparently in UK sizing you’re a 42FF (congrats on losing boob weight instantaneously!😄) so you don’t have to go digging or order the wrong size. (I got you😉)
MONIQUE. Although I’m a mere 34E, I feel your pain. Swimsuit and bra shopping in pre-internet days would literally bring me to tears (especially in the days before they allowed women to buy bikinis as separates. As if every woman and girl’s boobs are perfectly matched in size to their ass😒).
Ugh, yeah I hadn’t heard about the new allegations against Franken, but I said elsewhere on The Root to a guy defending him on the very first day the first allegations came out that if Franken has done this once at his age, he’s most certainly done it other times and more women would be coming forward now that it’s…
I think possibly even more impactful for most men would be imagining if another man they don’t know very well took a picture of themselves grabbing that man’s junk while sleeping. (That’s assuming you’re not a man yourself, LucidLynx?)
Yeah, I think I’m going to have to pass on that one. I have a very good imagination (based in reality on this subject) and don’t need to be enraged today...
This happened in the late 80s, but regardless, even if he was brought up on charges and taken to court he still would have been incredulous and defiant of the fact that he did anything wrong. He literally thought it was not physically possible, legality aside.
Repetition can get a yes, but that’s a coerced yes, and it’s fucked up. Women say yes because they just want the harassment to stop.
I wish they would also have included whether these men think “raping your wife” is actually possible. Because I have a feeling that 100% of the men who answered those questions incorrectly would also fail that one.
They also substitute smelling salts for regular salt...
Beautiful piece. Fantasy and sci-fi stories (books and movies) have always been a great refuge for me as well from a very young age (I’ve had chronic PTSD for 30+ years due to severe abuse throughout my childhood and teenage years). Thank you for sharing your moving story.
When I saw Fantasia for the first time on American Idol I thought her parents pulled a dirty trick on that chile.
You should watch the whole UN Women speech she gave in which she talks about it.