Do you remember a few years ago when it was announced that breast implants were dead? The data points supporting this claim were weak, but nonetheless of some interest. There was a study conducted by Pornhub in 2017 indicating that millennials, according to an analysis of search term statistics on the adult website, were not as interested as older people in looking at… Women’s breasts. There was the fact that since at least 2018, Hooters has seen a steady stream of location closures. Then there was the growing popularity in the 1920s of Brazilian butt lifts, signaling the accelerating shift in sexy focus in America from the bosom to the butt. “Has anyone here found that big tits aren’t cool anymore?” a woman in her late 20s asked Reddit sub r/bigboobproblems in 2020. “Butts are in now,” another user replied, before reassuring the original poster that “boobs will be popular again eventually.”
In recent months, it seems that that moment has finally arrived, and that so-called mammary aplasia has had a lot to do with the rise of TV and film star Sidney Sweeney, whose ample chest has attracted seemingly endless media attention. “How the breast was won“, New York mail the address she exclaimed, in March last year, praising the actress for managing to bring the national conversation back to the female chest. (“The state of the union is…boobs,” the article promoted.) “Boobs are back,” the same post Announce In June, she touted the return of the push-up style bra apparently beloved by stars like Sweeney, while Slate male “In Sidney Sweeney, America rediscovered that women could have breasts.” (The actress herself suggested she was in on the joke by appearing as a Hooters waitress on “Saturday Night Live” when she hosted the show, and wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with the phrase “Sorry for the great boobs and valid opinions.”) Meanwhile, she pointed out Right-leaning publications suggested that the enthusiastic attention paid to Sweeney’s breasts had to do with the changing political climate in National PostAmy Hamm books That the actress’s “overflowing cups” is a welcome sign that “we’re beginning to envision the death of waking up.” SpectatorBridget Vitasi praised The return of the “laughing blonde with the amazing rack” who “almost ceased to exist” due to humorless political correctness.
Unlike these conservative critics, I do not find the resurgence of hippah-hipba style culture a cause for special celebration; The cautious objectification of women is at best sophomoric and at worst predatory. (Stay in your pants, losers.) However, considering what it means to look at breasts is still important. the index[هملين]Long lastinga theory that links the strength of the economy to women’s skirt lengths — the miniskirt in a bull market, the midi skirt in a bull market — doesn’t exactly fit our current social and political moment, but it might make more sense to consider what might be called the breast index. What does it say about the times we live in when vocal attention to breasts is in the public sphere?
I had a chance to ponder this question earlier this week, when, like countless others, I watched former news anchor Lauren Sanchez attend a… Donald Trump‘s opening With her fiancé Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos. Sanchez, who is fifty-five years old but apparently has access to the kinds of dermatological and cosmetic interventions that can make women of her class look younger, tighter and more elegant, arrived at the Capitol Rotunda wearing a skin-tight white Alexander McQueen suit over what appeared to be It is a revealing white lace bustier.
It goes without saying that Sanchez, who loves skin-revealing clothing, should be allowed to wear whatever she wants to wear and flaunt whatever she wants to flaunt, and in fact, some people praised what they saw of her. blood sucker, No fucks given“,”My aunt is latina(For the record, this is a woman with such a strong joie de vivre that it prompted Bezos to refer to her as a “living girl” in a secret text exchange that occurred when the two were still married to other people, according to National Enquirer.) However, much of the reaction to Sanchez’s heavy-duty appearance has been negative. It has been referred to as “frivolous” and “inappropriate” by X users (slightly more mildly, More than one I compared her to Sue Ellen Mischke, the buxom “Seinfeld” character who wore a bra as a shirt). Former “Selling Sunset” reality TV star Christine Quinn, herself no stranger to elaborate, provocative outfits, chirp That Sanchez, “in lingerie with her bras pulled up like NASA was launching her into orbit,” was “the peak selling energy of season two’s sunsets.” Megyn Kelly, a conservative radio personality, said frankly, and not for the first time, that Sanchez was “dressing like a whore.” “No one should talk about your breasts, sorry,” Kelly said He said on her SiriusXM show. “They should be talking about the inauguration.” The frenzy over the look reached its peak when Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg was caught on camera looking just like that Sneak a peek In Sanchez’s arms. (It’s hard to know for sure what was happening on Earth, of course One copy In the clip, a woman in line in front of Sanchez appears to be bending down, as if she were picking something up off the floor, and that’s probably what caught Zuckerberg’s attention, though his student’s mischievous smile certainly supports the lone horndog theory.) Zuckerberg upped the ante by admiring On Sanchez’s Instagram page mail from the inauguration that night (interestingly, Sidney Sweeney also liked the post), prompting User X to He wonders Whether “Zach [will] Amazon boss loses. It was all about making a raunchy sex comedy for teens, but with tech moguls.
Compared to Sanchez’s outfits, Adam Lippes’ button-down coat and Eric Javits’ wide-brimmed hat that Melania Trump wore to the inauguration were elegant, even demure. (“Just when I was having the beauty and grace of @FLOTUS45, I walked in Lauren Sanchez wearing just a bra,” one X user to publish.) These times, however, are neither tasteful nor sober, and it was Sanchez and Zuckerberg, the looker, who seemed to me most attuned to the present moment’s passion for brutal directness. (And in her rudeness, Megyn Kelly also joined the ranks.) At the inauguration, Trump spoke of his plans to act against the looming specter of national decline by ushering in “a new golden age for America,” one that rests on, but, on some rather old chestnuts: xenophobia, voracious American expansionism, and even no. Forget, women are women and men are men. (“It will be the official policy of the United States government from now on that there are only two sexes: male and female,” Trump said.) Our tech masters — Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos — were on hand in the rotunda to support the 40th president’s message in a recent interview. On Joe Rogan’s show, Zuckerberg said he feels that “a lot of the corporate world is very culturally neutral” and lacks masculine energy and told Rogan: “Having a culture that celebrates aggression is a little bit more… “His own really positive merits.” Zuckerberg has recently emerged from his masculine transformation, which transformed him from pale programmer into buff brother, and his overtly suggestive glance at Sanchez’s exposed chest seemed like a fitting climax to Trump’s inaugural speech. And at long last, we’re back: women are equal again With breasts, men once again equal the strong, order restored, decline averted, God bless America
