I am just beside myself right now, so I'm going to keep this initial post as brief as possible to avoid it turning into a rant.
As a busty person, I get a lot of comments about my chest from friends and strangers alike. Unless they're specifically negative, they generally don't bother me in the slightest. One thing that I do not understand, though, is the mentality that women with smaller breasts are allowed to show off more of them.
If I'm at a party or out with friends or in any sort of casual situation, I expect to be allowed to show as much cleavage as any other woman would without falling under scrutiny. If a person considers, say, 30% breast exposure to be acceptable, then stick with that. I think that measuring those sorts of things by inches is just completely biased. If I ever walked up to a small-chested woman at a party and said "wow, your breasts look really tiny in that" or "you know, you could do with showing a bit more cleavage... that's not a great look for you," I don't think that anyone would find that acceptable.
If I'm at work, I expect that if I am not permitted to show cleavage, then no one else should be permitted to either. I have been forced in the past to wear uniforms that hang down my arms and practically billow at the waist because I was working for the government and was not legally allowed to have things tailored. I was willing to tolerate that until I was told that despite written regulations saying that two buttons were allowed to be undone at the top of the shirt, I was not allowed to so because you could see cleavage (which is ridiculous considering the fact that all of my bras separate, and in a loose shirt there is no cleavage to be seen, but hey - this is the same workplace that made me choose a size 42 crew-neck t-shirt because the 34 that I'd chosen was "too revealing," so I don't know what I expected). One of the other girls, however, could frequently be seen revealing the lace edges of her bra if she leaned forward (which we often had to do when speaking with customers) or creating a noticeable space between buttons because of the pull across her bust, however nothing was said to her about any of this. And I'm going to stop talking now, because despite my original intent, this has gotten quite long.
TL;DR, do you find that a small amount of cleavage on a large-busted woman is less "appropriate" than an equal or larger amount on a smaller-breasted woman (provided that any cleavage is appropriate in the situation)? I know that it's very clear what MY opinions are, but if yours differ, I'm obviously not going to bite your head off. How do you think that this relates to other situations, such as a tall woman showing off a bit more leg or someone with a long torso having their midriff exposed when out? Have you experienced any of this sort of treatment or commentary?
As a busty person, I get a lot of comments about my chest from friends and strangers alike. Unless they're specifically negative, they generally don't bother me in the slightest. One thing that I do not understand, though, is the mentality that women with smaller breasts are allowed to show off more of them.
If I'm at a party or out with friends or in any sort of casual situation, I expect to be allowed to show as much cleavage as any other woman would without falling under scrutiny. If a person considers, say, 30% breast exposure to be acceptable, then stick with that. I think that measuring those sorts of things by inches is just completely biased. If I ever walked up to a small-chested woman at a party and said "wow, your breasts look really tiny in that" or "you know, you could do with showing a bit more cleavage... that's not a great look for you," I don't think that anyone would find that acceptable.
If I'm at work, I expect that if I am not permitted to show cleavage, then no one else should be permitted to either. I have been forced in the past to wear uniforms that hang down my arms and practically billow at the waist because I was working for the government and was not legally allowed to have things tailored. I was willing to tolerate that until I was told that despite written regulations saying that two buttons were allowed to be undone at the top of the shirt, I was not allowed to so because you could see cleavage (which is ridiculous considering the fact that all of my bras separate, and in a loose shirt there is no cleavage to be seen, but hey - this is the same workplace that made me choose a size 42 crew-neck t-shirt because the 34 that I'd chosen was "too revealing," so I don't know what I expected). One of the other girls, however, could frequently be seen revealing the lace edges of her bra if she leaned forward (which we often had to do when speaking with customers) or creating a noticeable space between buttons because of the pull across her bust, however nothing was said to her about any of this. And I'm going to stop talking now, because despite my original intent, this has gotten quite long.
TL;DR, do you find that a small amount of cleavage on a large-busted woman is less "appropriate" than an equal or larger amount on a smaller-breasted woman (provided that any cleavage is appropriate in the situation)? I know that it's very clear what MY opinions are, but if yours differ, I'm obviously not going to bite your head off. How do you think that this relates to other situations, such as a tall woman showing off a bit more leg or someone with a long torso having their midriff exposed when out? Have you experienced any of this sort of treatment or commentary?
