When a girl reaches puberty and her breasts begin to develop, her mother generally takes her out and buys her a training bra. It’s a rite of passage for a young girl, a special moment for mother and daughter to bond.
Just what is the purpose of a training bra? Are breasts wild animals that must be trained to live in captivity from an early age? Does the bra teach developing breasts to become dependent on straps and underwires by allowing the muscles that should support them to atrophy? Or does it train young girls to live up to unrealistic body images and enslave her to the irrational whims of societal perceptions of modesty and sexiness. Is the training bra’s purpose to train a young girl that her breasts are sexual playthings that must be hidden away except when she wishes to arouse sexual desire?
It would appear that a training bra serves no practical purpose at all except to propagate modesty myths and to be a symbol of her status as an up and coming sexual object. It teaches a young girl body shame and to become a slave to some misogynistic perception of womanhood.
I say let your breasts be free. But I’m a man, what do I know? For what it’s worth…
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