Remula Wazokana's Dreamwidth

I'm afraid I can't offer any good suggestions for lingerie stores in your area-- I'm over in Atlanta, and while there are some excellent places I know of around here, they're all local and I doubt you'd want to make the commute-- but I thought I'd offer some empathy, as I've totally had that conversation with my friends before.

One of my best friends is tiny-- like, just a total itty-bitty pixie type-- and she's always joking about how she wishes she were more cleavage-ly inclined, the way I am. And I sympathize with the flat-chested thing, I really do! Because she has a hard time finding dresses and shirts that are flattering to her frame, and so do I, and it's not fair that our standard of beauty puts so much attention on boobs, &c.

However.

I got extremely annoyed with her about a month ago when I was telling her about the incredibly rude male administrator at the school where I was working, who suggested that my shirt was "inappropriately low-cut" for a school environment.

(I was wearing a shirt with a neckline like this, for the record. It was not low cut, and I even had a camisole underneath it, because I teach sixteen year old boys and I am not an idiot, and I am fully aware that they will look down anyone's shirt at that age. Because, well: boobs. They're sixteen and stupid, it happens.)

Anyway.

So I'm venting about this to my friend, who is also a teacher, and she said, "Well, to be fair, you are large chested." Which-- dude, yes, I know. I cannot help that. They're just sort of there, you know? Have been since I was in middle school. But having a large chest does not mean that I am immodest, or flaunting my sexuality in an inappropriate way, or that I should have to wear a damn habit in order to be seemly in the classroom. I am way more appropriately dressed than the English teacher who wears skirts that make me doubt the existence of her underwear, so: bite me.