"A busy display" "A leggy display"

[Thegannethasfled]

I have never been on this feminism board so sorry if this has been much discussed. But HOW the hell do dm and suchlike get away with labelling women and printing/putting on sm this shit about oh such n such put on a VERY busty display getting out of her car today I mean ffs it is the 21st century they cannot get away with this why are they? I have never seen oh Brad Pitt put on a very chesty display or ooh look David Beckham puts on a very leggy display as he buys coffee in Costa. They need to wake up to their sexist degrading misogynistic insulting shite journalism and employ humans who can write.

Given my unavoidable anatomical qualities, I think I'm going to mentally redefine every moment of my existence as "putting on a busty display". I'm currently putting on a busty display on my sofa, but in a few minutes I'm going to bustily make a drink and then put on a busty coffee-drinking display.

Yes I am always putting on a busty display apparantly as obviously they are there purely for the purposes of displaying so people can look and watch and point and comment I shall put on a leggy display later when I walk to the shop

It is unbelievable journalists still write this shite.

I've been busty this week. I've put on busty displays down most of the aisles at Tesco's, for the oncoplastic breast surgeon, quite a few displays while watching the TV and drinking coffee, as I was picking up a couple of pints of milk at the corner shop, and in my own bed.

I don’t have much of a bust to display, but I definitely put on an arsey display when I’m not sitting on it.

I definitely breast boobily down the stairs at every opportunity. Or I would do, if my house had any stairs.

(Yes, OP, it's irritating.)

"display" = being alive and doing things while being female.

They do think women are decorations, don't they?

My favourite is "showcased". They like that one. "She showcased her curves in a pair of jogging bottoms and a t-shirt."

I will be showcasing my curves while doing the washing up in a bit. And flaunting my jean clad pins on a run to the corner shop for cat food while trading the pavement as my personal catwalk. I am so glamorous.

The language they use is so regressive.

“The songstress enjoyed the sunshine as she flaunted her toned physique with her new beau” - usually deliberately accompanied by an unflattering picture.

Nobody speaks like this and when I read that sort of language I just think what an absolute tosser. I like to think the vast majority of people reading are just laughing at the ridiculousness of it, but that might be a bit optimistic of me.

Flaunt - showed off - advertised - showcase

It's not merely objectification, is it? It's also inferring that the women are inviting comment, judgement, approval, involvement, action. By being outdoors and in possession of a female body. It's attributing motives that suggest women are in permanent need and want of male attention.

It's quite a good demonstration of rape culture.

quite right @ArabellaScott

It's quite plain that many of you read The Mail Online, as do I.

My hips aren't lying as I sit on my swivel chair & flaunt my pins that's for sure.
But I still find the time to put on a busty display while dictating my latest report (Dragon for the win).

Later, I may move my glasses sexily down the tip of my pert nose while reaching languorously up to release my bound hair, before shaking my head (which will cause my hair to fall into a perfectly styled loose curls look of course).

I am so tired of sadsack mens interpretations of what a woman is.
I am a woman.
Of course everything I do (sat here in my Oodie & house boots working away with nobody to see) is done for menz eyes.🙄

They're busy journalists. They can't be expected to come up with the literary brilliance of 'She breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downwards' every day, can they?

Stop reading it. Vote with your feet.

As long as you all keep going back for more, despite the irritation it (quite rightly) causes, they’ll keep putting more of it up. Their advertisers are only interested in how many clicks they draw in. Stop clicking, and they will be forced to look at why.

Stop engaging if you want meaningful change.

I’m putting on a busty display eating some bourbons