Boobs-N-Business

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Permalink Reply by Deanna Sipe on September 1, 2009 at 7:02pm

Honestly I would love to see the turn on the tables! The problem with the premise is that it would take far too long for the men to get tired of being objectified and we would have to work so hard to keep up the objectifiying when it doesn't really captivate us. :) lol

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Permalink Reply by Annie Sever-Dimitri on September 1, 2009 at 11:02am

Erik, I really agree with what you said about women busting their booties to be taken seriously. What women endured just to get the right to vote was astounding! Millions of women across the globe still don't have that. I just think there is a time and place for cleavage--that would be during Sexy Time! Work isn't Sexy Time, unless you are working on your back. I do want to be taken seriously, and I dress like a chick--everything is just kept in its place. You can wear skirts (not mini's), fun colors, ruffles, higher heels to look like a woman--looking like you are preparing to breast feed isn't necessary.

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Permalink Reply by Cindy Dashnaw on September 1, 2009 at 1:13pm

A professional woman who seems to use nothing but deep-cleavage photos for blog posts and other online ID purposes was the topic of conversation recently among a group of male and female professionals. All we could talk about was whether the cleavage was intentional. It was an honest, not catty, conversation about whether a woman would legitimately use such a photo. The sad part to me is that no one remembered anything else about her--not her intelligent commentary or her background. Is that what women want to be remembered for?

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Permalink Reply by Gary Miller on September 1, 2009 at 3:14pm

Take a look at the image of women on TV - there isn't a single prime time series that doesn't show women wearing very very lowcut outfits at work......CSI (in all its variations), House, the Mentalist, etc. The message is "this is how women succeed". Am I missing something?

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Permalink Reply by Kendal R. Miller on September 1, 2009 at 7:53pm

In my opinion Gary, you aren't missing anything. I believe it's what the "business" uses to help "sell" television shows--the dress on most shows is fairly the same across the board. Still I think of the huge popularity of the old shows such as "I Love Lucy" and "The Andy Griffith Show". I'm sure the "thinking" of what would sell those shows was probably extremely different back in that day--using attractive woman in the series but appropriately dressed. Perhaps the only show that I can think of (right off) that was newer (and not that new) was Roseanne that kept the "sex sells" wardrobe for its characters to a minimum. Now that I think about it, do you think as adults that we are subject to an form of peer pressure to "fit it" to the new norm? We see it on television and HAVE to have it? That some of us see how women dress on television and we HAVE to dress a certain way or we feel that we won't fit in? Just a couple questions that came to mind. Hey, nice last name! :)

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Permalink Reply by Marita Topmiller on November 11, 2009 at 9:01am

What's fine in TV and magazines is what sells and sex sells. But in my real life business world, as I
conduct business, "the girls" don't sell, the facts do.

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Permalink Reply by Lynnell Nixon-Knight on September 1, 2009 at 4:39pm

Haha - this is too funny. Lesson here: if you want to excite discussion, say the word 'boobs'. Face it, the dynamic duo have magical powers. However, they are simply a part of the female physique and as such, it's okay to have them - even at work. The key (as with all things, grasshopper) is BALANCE. (And balance is the handmaiden of common sense.)

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Permalink Reply by Deanna Sipe on September 1, 2009 at 7:05pm

Lynnell MAGNIFICENT! TRULY MAGNIFICENT! Thank you for your contribution.

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Herndon on September 27, 2009 at 1:24am

As late after this post as it is I couldn't resist when I saw the word "boobs" to take a look... which leads me to my point. I encourage women (and men for that matter) to look their best with the resources at their disposal. As a moth to a flame, I can't help but my eye be drawn to a lovely woman. Even when it is a "train wreck" (that is, you don't want to look but your have to look) I can find my eye drawn to the components of discussion. An extreme example, there is a guy at Target in my neighborhood that has more "toes" than the typical cashier - (if your slow, I am implying Camel-toes!). He happens to be about 6'4" and the counter is below waste high. Trust me, I have NO interest in this sight - but can't help but take notice. As a married man I have no specific interest even in the more appealing options... but regardless it does fill at least a bit of my mind space preventing me from accomplishing things as efficiently as I otherwise would due to slight mental distraction.

To this point, I would rather a little cleavage than a guy miss an obvious spot shaving. In both cases I feel like I can't help but stare and can't say anything. Both help me to form thoughts on who the person is. Thankfully, I have a solution. There is a precise measurement that determines the line between easy office girl and professional attractive young lady in the area of appropriate cleavage exposure. The problem is there is too much intense mathematical factoring going into determining that line. Here is the formula and there is a slight adjustment for each individual lady:

A great circle on a sphere is any circle whose center coincides with the center of the sphere. A spherical triangle is any 3-sided region enclosed by sides that are arcs of great circles. If one of the corner angles is a right angle, the triangle is a spherical right triangle.In such a triangle, let C denote the length of the side opposite right angle. Let A and B denote the lengths of the other two sides. Let R denote the radius of the sphere. Then the following particularly nice formula holds:

cos(C/R) = cos(A/R) cos(B/R).

Hope this helps answer the question.

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Permalink Reply by Annie Sever-Dimitri on October 30, 2009 at 6:22pm

Ha ha! Love that response. Too bad about the dude with camel toe--got a chick in my zumba class with a similar issue, and I agree. Like it or not, you do look.

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Permalink Reply by Michael R. on October 31, 2009 at 7:13am

A Cameltoe, a Zumba instructor, and a Rabbi walk into a bar...

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Permalink Reply by Marita Topmiller on November 11, 2009 at 8:54am

I usually wear a business suit while conducting business...love em...got a closet full of em. I don't want the
client distracted by his libido - no hardening of the artery - robs the brain of blood. Safety is an issue with
me too. In my line of work, I sometimes find myself alone with some man I hardly know. I like to keep my
FFF in place - Fabric Force Field - My boobs only swing at home.

Good topic, Annie.

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