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OOF, IT’S HARD to be the owner of a magnificent pair of generously sized boobs sometimes. There are the tedious negotiations one must engage in to make any top that should be worn sans bra to work very much avec one. There’s the back ache, which is real. There’s the fact that they are greedy limelight-hoggers, prone to distract attention from your fabulous new earrings, expert eye make-up and dazzling conversation. Not, of course, to be ungrateful for the bounty bestowed on us by genes/God/a well-chosen doctor, but owning a bombshell bosom can be a drag.
I write this as someone who has topped out at a rather cartoonishly proportioned 28G. Quite fabulous, in hindsight, not that I thought it at the time. With the Hello Boys! Wonderbra and lads-mag era long ago discarded – and years spent watching perfect itty-bitty boobies on catwalks – my rack felt inelegant, uncool, either matronly or camp.
Still, even the most lavishly endowed among us have probably never found our boobs to be at the centre of socio -political discourse. But such is the majesty of The White Lotus, Euphoria and Madame Web star Sydney Sweeney’s cleavage that it became a hot topic online for a hot minute after she presented Saturday Night Live in a plunging dress last month. Such has been the fuss you’d think that Sweeney was just a gorgeous pair of boobs with an accomplished actor and prodigiously young producer attached.
So yes, Sweeney’s are tits of influence. So much so, in fact, that they even reached the Capitol. Kind of. A US politician posted a (now deleted) jokey tweet of a stunned Joe Biden at the State of the Union Address appearing to ogle Sweeney.
For some conser vative commentators, Sweeney’s boobs signified the death knell for much-maligned ‘woke culture’– which is an awful lot of power to project on to a pair of breasts, whatever their size. The argument being that we diversity-welcoming left-leaning snowflakes are scared of objective, obvious hotness and outraged by push-up bras?
‘Are Sydney Sweeney’s breasts double-D harbingers of the death of woke ?’ asked writer Amy Hamm in Canada’s National Post. ‘Yay! Boobs are back!’ proclaimed Bridget Phetasy in The Spectator, adding , ‘For anyone under the age of 25, they’ve likely never seen it in
