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NO BRAS WERE BURNED
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NO BRAS WERE BURNED As part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, today has been designated No Bra Day. Below is a photograph of the BraBall sculpture made of 18,085 bras donated to the artist Emily Duffy. The BraBall can be seen at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.  It is estimated that between 75 and to 95 per cent of Western women wear bras. In a survey commissioned by Playboy, 67 per cent of women preferred wearing a bra than not wearing a bra. The bra has become both a feminine and feminist cultural icon. Some feminists have argued that the bra is an example of how women’s bodies are expected to conform to ideals of a male-dominated society. In the late 1960s, after the American actress Marlo Thomas gave up wearing a bra on her That Girl television show, she announced, “God created women to bounce. So be it." This bra-less tradition was maintained by Charlie Dimmock in the Ground Force gardening makeover television series. In the 1970 best-selling book The Female Eunuch, Germaine Greer wrote that “the classic burning of the bras ... represented liberation from the oppression of the male patriarchy". Susan Brownmiller argued that men are challenged by women not wearing bras because they "implicitly think that they own breasts and that only they should remove bras." More recently, Iris Young wrote that a bra "serves as a barrier to touch" and that a bra-less woman is “deobjectified”, eliminating the "hard, pointy look that phallic culture posits as the norm." Challenging the notion that the first bra should be seen as a rite of passage or a coming of age, Claudia Mitchell suggested that, when a young woman first wears a bra, her breasts are now sexual objects. In the US, feminists have organised a National No-Bra Day, first observed on 9 July 2011. In parts of Somalia, women wearing bras are sometimes whipped because al-Shabab, the jihadist group responsible for Nairobi’s Westgate Mall attack last month, have declared wearing bras as un-Islamic. In areas controlled by al-Shabab, women are often forced to shake their breasts at gunpoint to see if they are wearing bras or not. I don’t think feminists would approve of al-Shabab’s methods of women’s emancipation! Have you seen the BraBall sculpture? What is your view on feminism? Are you a feminist? Can a man be a feminist? I have just finished reading a book on feminism written by a man. His argument, put very simply, is that there’s only one thing that women can do that men cannot do - that is, have babies, and that men will go to great lengths to control women’s power to have babies. It’s confused me! I’m sceptical whether a man can be a feminist. I’m suspicious of men who announce that they are a feminist; I think they just want to get inside women’s pants! |
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Doesn't it make you wonder sometimes, that people over think and react to some stuff? Moobies Bared it all in support of Breast Cancer Awareness
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Until today never seen this BraBall sculpture. Never saw myself as a feminist but I worked in an all male environment with just a few women around. They might have thought of me as a feminist. I had their respect at work which was very important to me. Team thing and I couldn't do the job with out them. hugs V Become a blog watcher sweet_vm
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This is the first I've seen the sculpture! Most of my job was male with more and more women entering the job.
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Doesn't it make you wonder sometimes, that people over think and react to some stuff? Moobies Bared it all in support of Breast Cancer Awareness 
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Until today never seen this BraBall sculpture. Never saw myself as a feminist but I worked in an all male environment with just a few women around. They might have thought of me as a feminist. I had their respect at work which was very important to me. Team thing and I couldn't do the job with out them. hugs V
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This is the first I've seen the sculpture! Most of my job was male with more and more women entering the job.
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I'm sure you can get 18,086 bras for an art exhibit!
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This is the first and probably only chance I will ever get to see the bra-ball sculpture... Feminism is a nebulous issue that seems to mean different things to each feminist and indeed each generation of feminists. To me, feminism is about embracing everything about being a woman and standing up for what we/they are entitled to as beings that are equal to men but different. To me, it has nothing to do with rejecting, discarding or burning of bras... That's just militant anti-feminism to me and subliminally declares an attitude of "If men don't have to wear undergarments to enhance and glamourise their physical attributes, why should we?". The answer is obvious, breasts sag with age and become less appealing when they are shapeless sacks of dangling meat. Can a man be a feminist? I don't believe so... There are lots who claim to be but I agree with you that it's almost always a ploy to get into a woman's pants.
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