A truly unhinged article published in the New York Post is generously informing women that whatâs âinâ this season has been hiding under your chin this whole time: BOOBS!
The article, entitled âBoobs are back in a big wayâ and written by Joely Chilcott, popped up in the Post on Tuesday and the pushback on it has been udderly fantastic (weâre not sorry).
First published in The Sun, the opening line of this garbage piece of writing reads: âStand up straight, push out your chest and work that feminine charm, as bountiful boobs are back in style.â
Sorry, we need a moment. Our eyes just rolled so hard they may now be stuck that way.
Okay weâre back now. Chilcott goes on to refer to Rihannaâs dĂ©colletage at a movie premiere as âa sight to beholdâ while describing Susan Sarandonâs âpuppiesâ at the Cannes Film Festival as âfantastically brazenâ and outshining the âflat-chested, flesh-flashing millennials.â
Pardon us, but... what the actual fuck?
For one, breasts are not a âtrendâ that go in and out. While it is shocking, even if breasts are âinâ during the fall, but âoutâ by winter, the hard truth is that they will still be there despite the change of season (Chilcott, a woman, should know that first hand).
Breasts are not like Justin Timberlakeâs mysteriously disappearing and reappearing âsexy.â They cannot just âcome back.â The overwhelming majority of breasts have not gone anywhere to come back from.
Secondly, New York Post/The Sun, you do realize you have the choice to NOT publish this detritus, right? Because you do.
Twitter felt similarly about the whole thing. Many, like us, wondered where boobs had gone. Some expressed their gratitude that they could unsheathe their hidden busts, others were simply incredulous:
The moral of this godforsaken story is that this op-ed sucks, boobs are perfect (no matter their size, shape, etc.), and, if youâre going to assess trends, you better make damn sure that itâs not objectifying human beings in the process.