dialogue at the mirror, Value World

[fflo]

Me (to the woman looking on curiously as I regard the reflection of myself in a funny fringed Native American-ny decorative shoulder thing---sort of a cross between a collar and a shawl): Kind of a strange item. Don't know where I'd wear it.

Woman: Do you ever go to rock concerts? You could wear it there.

Me: True. Hmmm....

Woman: It has a slimming effect.

Me: Oh, well I wouldn't want that. (turn decisively, walk away, that-settles-that)

tee hee hee

I love when I have something at the ready on such an occasion.

Comments

[fflo.livejournal.com]

laying by the lake yesterday shmizla & i talked about the verboten nature of toplessness here, and how bare breasts are scandalous sexual things that people daren't be exposed to. it's funny that the possibility of people seeing your breasts from a distance when you're minding your own business is such a dire thing, but commenting about someone else's physiognomy from some implied general assumptions about what it should or shouldn't be like, or how it should or shouldn't be presented, is not considered a crossing of boundaries at all.

i suppose the two go hand in hand, in a way, but right now they both seem ridiculous, and there seems to be some irony in what's considered generally accepted, as i think about these things this monday morning before the coffee kicks in.

[sprig5.livejournal.com]

of course it's because female breasts are sexual objects. A man could have the exact same breasts as I have, and he would be seen as gross looking, but her would be allowed to walk around topless in public. Am rading "Self-Made Man" right now. Many annoying things about its writer, but it is interesting.