If the lack of a bra allows the shape of her breasts or nipples to be somehow easier to see, it’s on YOU to deal with your feelings about that.
was called out of class because she wasn’t wearing a bra, and this fact was somehow “distracting” to her classmates, most notably the boys. She was instructed to put on a second shirt in an attempt to cover up her breasts, and then—I kid you not—she was sent to the nurse’s office, where she was given four Band-Aids to place over her nipples.
It was my senior year of high school, and I hadn’t been wearing a bra for months, actually. I was in my “hippie phase,” and I was experimenting with what the “bra-free” life was like. I hated the underwire on my bras anyway. But my reasons don’t matter. And neither does the fact that I actually had pretty large breasts, which some might sayIn any case, I was pulled aside by the dean of the school .
So when I heard that Martinez had been blocked by her school on Twitter, I wasn’t the least bit surprised about that either. You see, when brave women and girls speak about mistreatment like this, they are apt to be silenced. And in both of our cases, the school knew they actually had no case to make—there was no way to justify the comments they had made to us, because there is no rule on the books of any school I’m aware of that requires its students to wear a bra.
. And in some cultures, even now, bras are rarely worn. So while wearing a bra feels normal and required to most of us, there is nothing wrong with a woman deciding that it is not for her. Some people have even argued that it isBut the point is that however you feel about someone who chooses not to wear a bra—even if you think it’s ugly or tacky—your job is to keep your mouth shut. Your job is to learn that we all get to make whatever choices we wish to make about our bodies.
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