clothing rave
Jan. 31st, 2005 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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nsingman asked for a rant or rave (he didn't specify)
about bras. Ok, I can do that. :-)
I don't know when bras -- as opposed to corsets -- were invented, but boy, I'd sure like to thank the person responsible! Corsets might be ok at doing the job (this is based on observation, not direct experience), but they look pretty uncomfortable, and just letting 'em hang loose would be horrible for someone my size. I tried that at Pennsic once (that being an environment where it wouldn't raise eyebrows), and I didn't get through one day. Swing swing swing whap whap whap bounce bounce bounce -- how does one manage to get through the day like that?! So I am delighted that a straightforward solution exists for under $10 per.
Which isn't to say that there aren't bad bras out there -- there sure are. Ones that pinch, or don't fasten tightly, or have straps that are too long for short people like me, or that itch, or whatever. The worst ones are the ones that try to be sexy but end up just being decorative. That might be fine for the AA-cups out there, but not for everyone. I believe it is possible to make something that is both functional and attractive, but forced to choose I'll go with function almost every time.
I have no problem with people who find bras restrictive and would rather go without. If that's what makes you happy -- or if you're small enough to be free of this particular burden -- then go for it! I, meanwhile, will revel in the joy of bodily protrusions that stay approximately where I put them until I'm ready to do something else with them. I didn't say bouncing is universally bad, after all -- I just want to control when it happens. :-)
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Date: 2005-02-02 05:21 am (UTC)Naw, if he's anywhere near my age, he's drooled over green Orion slave girls, Betazed counselors, 7 of 9, Vulcan sub-commanders ... :D
Which brings me to another rant... Why is it that all females throughout the entire galaxy have exactly two breasts??? Vulcans, Orions, Betazed, Klingons, everybody.
This isn't even an Earth standard. Cows have 4, pigs have 8. Why is it that Hollywood is willing to spend several hundred dollars for head prosthetics for convincing looking aliens, but won't put fifty cents worth of foam rubber under a tunic??? Has it been proved that sentience requires exactly two nipples???
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Date: 2005-02-02 01:50 pm (UTC)Total Recall
Date: 2005-02-02 08:15 pm (UTC)Sometimes my ability to find nearly anything online impresses even myself! :D I haven't made it a link because it's probably not kosher to put not-worksafe links on somebody else's LJ. :D
I've also received private e-mails stating that there's a "Triple Breasted Whore of Erotica Six" in the Hitchhiker novels, Tellarite females (so far unseen) from Star Trek have eight, and in the short story collection "Earthman's Burden" the Hoka have four (and look like teddy bears)
Okay, so I'm toning down the rant to a grumble. But, I would still like to see an SF TV series where one of the regular characters is a four breasted female. No nude shots, just a little foam under the tunic.
Re: Total Recall
Date: 2005-02-02 08:16 pm (UTC)Re: Total Recall
Date: 2005-02-02 09:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-02 08:35 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-02-03 05:15 pm (UTC)In the episode(s) "Menagerie", Vina isn't really an Orion slave-girl, the Talosians just give Captain Pike the fantasy that she is. Which means the only real Orion slave-girl that we saw in TOS was in the episode "Whom Gods Destroy". The character of Marta was played by Yvonne Craig, better known to men our age as ... Bat-girl! :D Two fantasy women in one! :D :D
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Date: 2005-02-04 02:22 am (UTC)