Imagine the Daily Fail’s joy when this slice of fried gold landed in their inbox today: a
“unique” study led by Manchester University, who clearly need more things to
worry about, has discovered “push-up bras make women 75 per cent more confident.”
“Hoorah!” Trumpeted
the Features Ed and his dancing trousers: “A legitimate reason to
put tits on the page, and we didn’t even have to pay anyone to make a sex
tape!”
It has, apparently,
led Professor Geoff Beattie (who headed the study) to call for a stop to
'unnecessary boob jobs'. How noble. Maybe stop doing patronisingly lame studies
in the first place, Manchester Uni, that pesky AIDS thing is still hanging
around, after all…
Professor of
Psychology at The University of Manchester Geoff Beattie apparently called the
results 'striking'. I bet he did. I bet he will also be quite struck when all
of women-kind start marching around with their tits hoiked up to their
eyeballs.
Here at Vagenda we
reckon a bra that fits properly is important. We also like nice, beautiful
bras, that are all lacy and make us feel good. But they don’t need three feet
of padding and a suspension mechanism to rival a Range Rover’s to make us
feel good. Nor do we feel they are important enough to warrant serious "academic" study.
We don’t want you to
burn your bra, we just don’t think you need to feel 75% better about yourself
when your boobs look bigger, no matter what the hotbed of groundbreaking
research that is Manchester University tells you.
