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jibbet · 18/09/2010 19:33

Call me a Prude, Old-fashioned, Whatever (I'm sure some will!) but watching the Boris Johnson interview I noted with some queasiness the deep cleavage revealed by one of the mumsnet interviewers.

It irritates me intensely to see women in professional situations, e.g. Jackie Smith in Parliament, or my locum GP, revealing inches of titillating cleavage. For a young female doctor to be flashing breasts while in consultation in a small room with male patients strikes me as risky. In these business situations, men are still required to be covered from neck to toe in sober suiting and restrictive collar and tie, surely women should also sport sober attire?

Such displays undermine credibility, compromise respect and distract colleagues - some might get the wrong idea.
Maybe some women want that?

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BrightLightBrightLight · 19/09/2010 00:14

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scottishmummy · 19/09/2010 00:08

serious point is notion women moderate/restrict self in order to control base urges of others

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 19/09/2010 00:06

"crying into my aa" :o

I don't think you need to reduce this to "ooh they're jealous", you don't have to be flat-chested to hate the sight of cleavage. You just have to be, you know, a bit weird and possibly a bit disgusted by women's bodies in general.

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:58

i can't see my feet, not because of my huge boobs but because of my huge bump! Grin

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:57

from chin lookin down i see ma feet nowt else in way

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:56

hahaha well i sometimes wish i was flat as a pancake! They get in the way!

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:54

as a fuckin pancake,crying into my aa

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:53

nah don't think so...not at all. Are you flat chested by any chance and I have offended you? Did not mean to offend anyone Grin

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:50

as could you.but your incisive dem flat titted burds hypothesis is a feminist issue

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:48

you can always go to another thread Grin

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:47

crivens you're on fire with that searing observation

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:45

Hmmm well it is true though Grin

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:43

one that omits flat chested lassies offended by big uns.

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:41

So what do you think a "good" argument is then?

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 23:38

flat chest burds complaining about big uns,isnt a v good argument is it

sarinha2203 · 18/09/2010 23:33

I have ample size breasts Blush and find it hard sometimes to hide my cleavage, no matter what I wear they always seem to want to pop out! Blush The only way i could hide my cleavage would be to wear turtle neck tops all year round and there is no way I am doing that! Just because your cleavage shows does not make you tarty/cheap. Usually, women who are offended by other women shoing their cleavage are flat chested themselves!

SpeedyGonzalez · 18/09/2010 23:17

You know, I kind of forgot that this thread was about the lady in the Boris vid...just watched it and I really don't think her cleavage was OTT at all. I was thinking of something more akin to <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=girls.gunaxin.com/wp-content/gallery/boobquake/cleavage_1.jpg&imgrefurl=girls.gunaxin.com/boobquake-2010-cleavage-edition/55485&usg=__mippac3ecRchVoV7Ya-ipGs6gYU=&h=413&w=509&sz=37&hl=en&start=0&sig2=4bKQQscbgvNqcUznq9NdyA&zoom=1&tbnid=t0JSswKLu61d1M:&tbnh=141&tbnw=193&ei=OjqVTNWCI4mLswblwPRk&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dcleavage%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D589%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=140&vpy=80&dur=2512&hovh=202&hovw=249&tx=134&ty=95&oei=OjqVTNWCI4mLswblwPRk&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this

Nice sense of style that lady has!

Elephants - please refer to my earlier post about hairy moobs! Grin

ElephantsAndMiasmas · 18/09/2010 23:10

I am Shock that people even notice cleavage this much. Does chest hair also cause nausea? (I'm thinking of chest hair on men, but whatever really)

HerBeatitude · 18/09/2010 22:56

"I don't come on the feminism threads very often and this is why."

ROFL. What a liar. The reason you don't come on to the feminist threads v. often, is because you are not a feminist and therefore presumably have no interest in them. I imagine you occasionally come on to random threads in the feminist section purely and simply to inform us all that you don't come on that often and that particular random thread is why. Grin There's always a bit of that...

SpeedyGonzalez · 18/09/2010 22:09

rofl at "wet boak"! You are priceless, scotmum!

scottishmummy · 18/09/2010 22:06

well vanessa feltz does gies me wet boak.i had put it down to her faux indignation,maybe its the gargantuan chest afterall

formerdiva · 18/09/2010 21:32

Cleavage makes you queasy? For real?

SpeedyGonzalez · 18/09/2010 21:27

Bla - re Boris, I just can't see it.

SpeedyGonzalez · 18/09/2010 21:26

You know, even when I was an A cup (i.e. Before Breastfeeding) I still got The Gaze from men who were clearly stuck in Adolescent SchoolBoy mode. Ugh. If that happened to me today I'd like to think I'd slap them.

LadyBlaBlah · 18/09/2010 21:08

Speedy - there is something about him. Possibly simply 'GSOH'

I do actually get what Goblin is saying. I very rarely display cleavage. I can't be bothered with The Gaze

That is wrong though.