Check out Busty Girl Comics! Once a day, the artist posts yet another one panel cartoon of either the problems or the perks of being a busty girl. I love it - especially since I can relate to the cartoons! LOL I'll be posting some of them below.
There's also a blog about reading comics called Has Boobs, Reads Comics. The title is self-explanatory, and with a title like that, what's not to like? :-D
And yet another blog about the difficulties of finding tops, bottoms, and everything else when you're Thin and Curvy. Like the woman says, it's not a contradiction. You don't have to be overweight to have curves - but dang it, those curves makes it more complicated to find something that fits AND looks good.
And of course, my own blog of the difficulties of superheroing while busty! LOL X-D
The thing is friends, women end up getting caught up in the body image trap very easily. I don't know if it's genetic, or cultural, or subliminal, or a combination of the above, but eventually nearly 100% of women will get caught up stressing about their looks. She can be liberal, conservative, moderate, black, white, Hispanic, atheist, or believer, we will still fall into that abyss.
Is that a good thing or bad? It's a bad thing if she totally obsesses over her looks - and it can be damned expensive, too! It can also be a good thing, because a change in fashion can go a long way in making a woman feel really good about herself.
Back in my days of a very liberal upbringing, I was told that no woman should let clothing determine her sense of self-worth one way or the other - that it's the brain, not the clothes, that make the woman. While that is true in theory, in practice, it's a whole 'nother story.
Let's put it this way: Would you take a male cop seriously if he came to arrest you wearing nothing but skimpy Speedos - especially if he was a big, overweight dude? Eventually you would have to take him seriously no matter how he's dressed, but a cop in uniform sends a much stronger message of his authority than if he wore only Speedos. Not only that, he would FEEL more authoritative making an arrest in his police uniform than he would in Speedos. So clothes do matter, whether it's a man or woman.
And yet, you don't see men obsessing over their looks nearly as much as women do. And nearly all women can get to the point that they are genuinely upset or even depressed over their looks. It's not easy to say what to do to get a woman out of that rut. However, one thing that does help is talking about it with someone else. In the pre-social media days, women had their little circle of friends for something like that.
Today, in addition to the circle of friends, there's also FB and blogs! The social networks help to further emphasize that this obsession over their looks is pretty much universal. And with blogs like Busty Girl Comics, we can even laugh about it! Along with laughing about it, you dudes can also see what the ladies go through. Yes, most of you already know that through your female friends, family members, or your lovers, but blogs like this will further emphasize that point that behind those looks (and behind those big boobs!) are women with thoughts, brains, and feelings.
Despite my liberal and feminist upbringing, I have decided that the issue of women and body issue is entirely unavoidable. It can't be programmed out, and I'm proof of that. There is just no separating us and the issue - no matter what kind of indoctrinating and reprogramming my former liberal instructors would prefer to do. The best thing is to accept that body issues will come up and that they will be a part of life for pretty much the rest of our lives. Once we accept that, we can then learn how to get past it, and part of that is by blogging about it so that we can all see that body issues are not only universal, it can be overcome.
And besides, as seen in a couple of cartoons below, being busty has its benefits! LOL
My thanks for the creator of BGC for making this webcomic, and for the creators of those other blogs as well! When we share these experiences, we all benefit! By the way, you've been added to my sidebar of cool links! ------------->
Woot!
(just looked down at her chest like in one of the cartoons) DAMN! They are big!
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