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I guess I am a typical man in some respects.
Okay, I would never normally admit to this, but this is a strange area in my psyche, and it’s treading on very dangerous ground in terms of gendered political correctness, but I have to ask because I don’t understand this and I really want to know:
Taken in isolation, exactly what is it about having larger breasts (particularly through surgical augmentation) that makes women feel better about themselves?
Again, taken in isolation.
I mean, I can understand how breast reconstruction can help breast cancer survivors feel whole again, but I think this is a completely different argument.
A woman who has been flat- or small-chested her whole life but absents herself from comparison to other women (either by herself or within the competitive model established by the patriarchy) really has no use for larger breasts from a practical or cosmetic standpoint, right? By my logic, there’s really no sense of inadequacy except in that very comparison.
Is there something happening with this that I just don’t see?
(And I don’t mean anything negative by including the Venus of Willendorf, it’s just the first thing that comes into my mind when I think of historical constructed female archetypes.)