Yesterday was National No Bra Day. How many of you participated?

I almost never wear a bra.

I’m participating right now.

Every day is No Bra Day for me.

Aaahhh- I let the car wear it.

Cannot afford to do that! Wish I could though!

I participate at home, every day. At work, I can’t do that.

Like a good brassiere, I’m a supporter.

I didn’t know it was national no bra day. I wore my bra most of the day. I was out in public, and although I do go braless in public sometimes, it just didn’t make sense yesterday. Once at my destination (staying with a girlfriend) I changed into my pajamas, including removing my bra.

Two of my friends who have battled breast cancer and have had both of their breasts surgically removed because of it share this attitude:
“How on earth could a day where girls and women are encouraged to walk around with their nipples poking through their shirts be “supportive” for women who are living with or who have died from breast cancer, or who have managed to ‘complete’ the arduous treatments and disfiguring surgeries required to put them into remission?”
As do I. It seems an ill-thought-out marketing ploy.

@canidmajor It seems just as ignorant as the “lets bleed all over ourselves in public to show support for countries with little or no access to Tampax” movement.

In walking around at work and then out afterwards, I saw absolutely no protruding nipples. I would say that this ‘promotion’, (or totally idiotic idea) had no participation in my area.

No more or less than usual, but then I’m not an ass who thinks it’s funny to turn cancer into a sexual joke.

I have cousins who have gone though breast cancer and I’m so greatful they are in remission and have been for years. We don’t do the pink crap or these other things. Pretty much all agreed it is marketing B’S that really misses the point. There was a face book meme going around that stated, “Save the tatas”. That soon got corrected to “Save the Woman”.

No.The three of us were totally unaware of this event.

I’m still participating at 10:14 am PDT. haha
I rip off my bra the first chance I get after the need to be presentable for the day has past. Bras suck but I have enough heft to my boobs these days that they are a must. Oh to be 19 again when they were perky and stood on their own. lol

@Coloma you can buy one of those bra’s shown in a previous question. It probably won’t make them stand on their own anymore but it will place the faux nips so that it appears they do!

Wait, this is supposed to be a breast cancer thing and not just some silly “let’s go braless just because” thing? I need to start reading the links first.

@SavoirFaire yes it was but, as many pointed out, rather an odd concept.

@rojo That’s why I need to read the links first. I wouldn’t have posted a silly answer if I had realized that the event itself was already a bad joke.

Is Buddy Check 25 a national thing, or just local for me?

(“Buddy Check 25” is a program designed to remind women of all ages to be aware of their breast health. Please share the information in this folder with a friend or relative. Then, on the 25th of each month, check with your buddy to ensure you have both completed your monthly breast self exam (BSE).)

I have a bartender friend who posts pictures to Facebook every month on the 25th of him handling a female patrons breast. Ugh. The man is 45. freakin perv

JohnThomas Didymus
Thousands of American women will be going without support today because it is the National No Bra Day. The day is dedicated for women to be free of one of the most uncomfortable clothing items they are forced to wear.

Hazelwood Patch notes that the day is not getting much coverage in the mainstream media, but with the spell of unusually hot weather in the United States, National No Bra Day should bring opportunity for all women to be free, if only for just a day.

I would bet my dollars to anyone’s donuts that 60–75% of US women did not participate. The statements made off the sight linked is rather disingenuous because no woman is forced to wear them (unless shaming counts), the only female forced to wear them are young women still living under their parents who at the first sign of becoming a woman are marched down to the department store or big box and fitted for a training bra to train them how to get comfortable with a contraption they will be bamboozled to believe they need the rest of their life. That last link I am sure is running the veins of many women cold as ice water, but nearly all the women contain therein could pass the pencil test, even a woman by size I would estimate a 38 DD if not a triple D. Many appeared to be 24 B or less, but I bet millions of women that small will wear a bra anyhow, believing they have to. No woman is forced to wear them in general, some anal places of work might, but that is for employment sake, in general wearing is mostly by choice for at least 50% of women unless those in the gallery were not a sampling of typical women.

I leave for two goddamn years, am not even back a week and we have Hypo’s infamous “Pencil Test” on two threads.

Some things never change.

^ It is science one cannot put a “spin” on, and you can’t doctor the findings.

By the way, anyone that’s a 24B is as big around in the chest as an average 2 year old

^ Thanks for the correction, i meant 34 B. 8-P

Pics or ya’ll are lying

We’ve known each other long enough I feel perfectly comfortable saying this: I’m a 32 C (usually wear a 34 B because my actual size isn’t usually sold in stores) and I don’t pass the pencil test. Get the fuck over the pencil test.

I wonder, has anyone ever done studies regarding the increase in breast cancer and the increase in the use of brassieres? Is there a correlation?

@Seek ask him if he can pass the pencil test.

@rojo I wonder, has anyone ever done studies regarding the increase in breast cancer and the increase in the use of brassieres? Is there a correlation?
Well, I happened upon this article that seems to lend some correlation. Not that I expect any of the ”fact & science” types to believe it, when the science supports their sacred cows they love it, when it doesn’t, they try to doctor it to make it do so, or debunk it altogether. There is logical debate injected such as:

”GO BRALESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.”
“It actually gets easier. When these muscles and ligaments are forced to bear the weight of our breasts, muscle tone returns. The more you wear a bra, the more you need to wear a bra. Chest muscles and breast ligaments atrophy, which then makes it feel uncomfortable to go braless.”

This is believed by many and certainly most doctors I have met, when it comes to muscle, what you don’t use you lose. I had an 83 year old friend I helped take to the Vet hospital and manage his diabetes. He could not walk far but wanted to be able to go shop so he put in for a mobility scooter. His doctor was reluctant to give him one because if he stopped walking (because it could become painful) and relied solely on the scooter, he would get to the point of always needing a scooter or power chair because his muscle would have gone south on him due to under use or no use, like another friend of ours who once he started using the mobility power chair got so bad he could hardly even stand. To think supporting the muscle in the chest to not have sagging later almost guarantees it, have you ever seen a 60 year old women on average have natural breast as those of a young 20 year old woman because she has basically ”un-used” breast with muscle that were never put under strain? I know people don’t like the truth when long standing sacred cows go to the butcher, but debunk the science if you can.

Yes, I pass the pencil test with flying colors, never would have failed it in life, and even if I did, I guess I have a better back than women because I would not need a bra to keep my ”moobs” from hurting my back.

Besides being a great name for a punk rock band “Atrophied Breast Ligaments” does not sound like a fun time to be had by all.

um, with men the pencil test is done in a different locale

I was at work, where I have to be professional.