I agree with Brumberg that breasts are still portrayed as something important to girls and guys in our culture and over time this has grown to be more powerful and meaningful that it once use to be. Throughout history female body parts, especially breasts have been shown in art, photography, films and literature. Breasts are a way to show off a female's sexuality. This brings me to my point of bras. Reading this chapter made me realize, at one point in time they didn't have bras, yeah I know weird to think about... but bras have changed a lot. Now girls can express themselves further than they could before. They now come in all different sizes and colors. And girls that feel that they don't have big enough breasts can get the "push-up" bra. Even young teens can access their own bra.
However, sometimes I feel like bras also have a negative affect on females. Since they come in many different forms girls can be portrayed as "sluttly". For example: having that bra that makes your breasts bigger then they actually are, or having it hang out of your shirt or even wearing a white see through shirt with a colored bra. Yeah, it may get the guys attention, but is that what it should really be about, just looks?
Many times women and girls will buy lingerie to impress a guy if they know they are going to be seen wearing it, which again shouldn't be the case. I mean guys don't go out and spend all kinds of money on sexy underwear for girls. I just feel like it has kind of become a problem in our society among girls, but that's just me...
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