And that’s pretty much all I have to say about this huge controversy whereby Meghan McCain, who has gone so far as to take a political position she calls “pro-sex,” posted a photo of herself on Twitter where her breasts looks absolutely phenomenal. Here’s what Meghan had to say about it in her Daily Beast column:
To be honest, I don’t feel that I have anything to feel ashamed of. I’ve always embraced my curves and will continue to do so. I’d rather be the size I am than a skinny model fired for being too fat. And once again, a day after writing about my weight, it’s the media that have a problem with my body.
For years I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more “sexual” than a flat-chested woman. And once again I was reassured by the media that someone with my cup size should always be covered up. Or what, I’ll be seen as a slut? It’s pathetic we can come so far in so many ways, but when Rep. Aaron Schock or Rep. Jeff Flake post pictures of themselves without their suits on—and their shirts, for that matter—they are proclaimed “hotties.” But put me in a tank top and I am suddenly an embarrassment to the Republican Party and women everywhere. The double standard is infuriating.
Agreed and agreed. Why are sexuality and intelligence incompatible? Why is a woman who’s comfortable with the breasts attached to her curvy body suddenly rendered incapable of analyzing politics? Of being a competent pundit and writer and political wave-maker? We make these rules. We make these rules and then we all de facto agree to them. We make the rules that say it is bad for a woman in the political sphere — or high-ranking in any line of work — to demonstrate that she has, under any circumstances, a sexual side. Does Meghan sometimes cross the line with her “look at me I’m so totally breaking the mold!” schtick? Yeah, sure, but she is the only one out there breaking the mold. She’s gonna have to yell a little bit louder if she wants to be heard. And her message is entirely pro-woman, pro-sex, pro-gay and pro-self-worth. Meghan, I support you 100%.
Sasha, you are gay. You just don’t know it yet.
Some people can feel an attraction for/appreciation of somebody of the same sex while actually being heterosexual.
Does your sexuality get claustrophobic in the tiny little box you’ve shoved it in?
I am well straight. PROPER straight, like. Love me some boy. However, I find Meghan McCain and Cheryl Cole, and for that matter my 25-years-old lecturer extremely attractive and gorgeous. I’m not blind, you know, I can appreciate beauty and sexyness and bloody hell, ms McCain is hot. And intelligent.
i totally agree! sasha is definatley gonna end up with a woman.
LOL!
ick. her boobs have rolls. what a shitty push-up bra.
I find it interesting, how people choose to comment on this post. The poster is gay for admiring another woman (I mean, yeah, why should women idolize each other? We’re much better at bitching and dragging each other down…) and the next comment is about that the boobs are ugly. I mean, really? Is that all you have to say? Everywhere, women fight for being respected the way they are. If a guy said that about a woman he would be that ‘fucking superficial ass’, who doesn’t respect women….
(Actually, after reading comments like that, I’m always convinced that the biggest problem for women in this world is how we treat each other. I mean, women are the worst bullies. We can make life a living hell for somebody else…)
It’s SO difficult to dress big boobs – really conservative, office-looking stuff all of a sudden looks slutty and one always has to have lots of safety pins around.
I really understand how annoying it is for Meghan McCain to get all these comments. You can be smart, successful, innovative, and every other positive subjective that people like to put in their resumes…but if there are some big boobs in the way then you’re first of all some silly little girl without brains.
Sorry, not a very coherent or well structured comment. Just had to get it of my chest.
I think the gay comment was in jest, to the joking gay note in the original post.
” Just had to get it of my chest.”
um……….. :D
Yes, it’s really hard to dress big boobs. It’s brutal to try to find simple, conservative, office-worthy clothes, as everything takes on a more sexual look than it would for smaller people. And it really really sucks that despite all the petites, and cute shirts for smaller women, no-one seems to make flattering clothing for the top-heavy. (Am I wrong? Please inform!!)
But this is not a simple item of clithing that has unfortunately come out more sexual that it would on a B-cup. This is boobs pushed waaay up, (boobs don’t get that extra bump just sitting naturally). This is a choice to pull the top down nearly to the nipple. This is not an accident.
Totally agreed.
I couldn’t agree more.
Try Chico’s. It may not be the trendiest clothing, but their clothing is cut so that women with curves can wear it. Keep an eye out for their sales.
I think if I had a nice rack I would be showing it off.
Thinking…
Yes. Yes, I would.
i Wasn’t of fan of Palin at all, but she received the same negative attention for her choice of clothing (obviously, on top of everything else.) But she wore shorter skirts, super high heels, wore a lot of makeup, etc, and people were quick to knock her down. Clinton always dressed way more conservatively and the two were compared constantly.
btw- I’m not commenting on Palin’s intellect or politics- just that she tended to up her femininity and was dragged down for it. Not that it was the only thing that dragged her down.
Like it or not, we are all judged on appearences. I’m not saying it is right, it is just the way it is. If you don’t want your sexuality talked about or made an issue, then you dress conservately. If you want attention for your sexuality, then you dress less conservatly, and more provocative. There is nothing wrong with having a large chest, but if you put them on display, expect people to look and talk about them, especially if you are in the public light and don’t normally dress in that mannner. If I showed up to work with my boobs pushed up like that, I would expect stares and expect my employer to either send me home or have me cover up. Not because it is wrong to show my boobs, but because it isn’t appropriate at work. Her twitter may be her personal account, but she is a public figure, therefore anything she posts is up for criticism. She knew the reaction she would get, I think she did it all for shock value.
This isn’t an ‘I’m hanging around the house in a tanktop’ photo. This is an overtly sexual, provacative photo. Now, I have no trouble with that – it’s her twitter acocunt, and she can do what she wants. But her claim that she’s just big-breasted and that’s just how a tank top looks on her is full of crap. I’m badly top heavy too, and years ago accepted that I can work really hard to cover up all the time, or I can just make peace with the face that a tank top on me is a little showier than on a small-breasted woman. Just like she says! Except that I don’t wear my tank tops with huge pushup bras. She’s not just wearing a tank top here, she’s pushing her breasts up to her chin, and lowering the tank top, such that she’s displaying nearly to her nipples. To claim that she didn’t mean this to be so sexual either is an outright lie, or shows incredible lack of brains.
Any photo i can see of her dressed up for an event, she dresses her body well, and looks great. I’m assuming she doesn’t dress like this for work (if she works), and it’s fine if she does want to on her own time. I don’t see any reason that you can’t be sexy and smart. But this photo not sexual? Bull.
Completely agree. Look at the angle this photo was taken from. I’m big chested and I don’t look like that in a normal tanktop. She could’ve easily taken a different angel- Megan McCain is an attention junkie. She just needed some minor controversy to write about in the daily beast.
I’m so sick of this woman and her asinine articles. What, she’s such a politically saavy mind? Please. Her articles are all about “defending” Jessica Simpson and such. Who fucking cares?
I ACTUALLY did the same thing and posted a pickof me holding something up in front of my web cam for my blog. Hot night, 3 am, Big boobs, little tank top, DID NOT think about what was hanging out.
The comments I got the next day were all about the tits I barely noticed since they’re y’know, smething I see everyday.
I barely know who she is though.
Wait, pro-gay?
“Why are sexuality and intelligence incompatible? ”
They’re not, but she looks trashy. She looks like some rebellious preteen on myspace trying to look all emo sexy. You can be sexy and smart, but if you look like a ho, you’ll be thought of as one. There’s a difference between sexy and sleazy. It’s fine to send a pic like this to your boy (or girl) friend, but posting it on a forum like Twitter and acting like you’re not doing it for attention is a joke.
Looks like Tila is a really good influence on her.
Haha!
I agree. She’s learning the fine art of fame HOing.
I totally agree with you.
That’s not a “Hi, this is me and yes, I happen to have big breasts” picture. That’s a “OMG would you get a load of my GINORMOUS boobies?!” picture.
lmao @ jennb, good one.
I disagree with the post, and i agree with the rest of the comments.
She did it for attention, and it really bothers me when they do shit like this, and then try to act all innocent.. It’s bullshit.
Like Kai said, if you’re gonna show off your body like that, you HAVE to know that people will be talking about it. And if she doesn’t know that, then she’s an idiot.
do meghan mc cain’s breasts get a collective fifteen minutes of fame, or does each breast get its own fifteen minutes? seriously, i want to know how long i’m going to have to hear about this before their 15 -or 30- minutes are up.
It will last until she tops it with the ubiquitous crotch shot. *rolling eyes*
And Suri wins for best comment of the thread! XD
I’ve got double-Ds and a graduate degree in women in politics. One of my favorite professors in grad school had a pair that would make dolly parton envious. Big boobs and political savvy are hardly mutually exclusive. However, taking slutty pictures and posting them on the internet isn’t exactly politically savvy. Sure you’ll get the hormonal adolescent boy vote should she ever run for office but oh wait, they can’t vote.
1- Ew. Not her body, but her face.
2- I don’t see how insulting someone with a different body type is ‘pro-self worth.’ I’m sick of this implication that only women who fling their fat boobs all over the place are ‘real women’ or ‘sexually attractive.’ ‘Curvy’ women do not want to fight for an equal playing field as beauty is concerned, they want to make sure that men like THEM and not women with smaller frames or smaller breasts.
Gee, you’re really doing your part here for demonstrating that it’s unhelpful to insult someone with a different body type…
Please don’t swing it the other way. Who ever implied that ‘women who fling their fat boobs around’ are the only ones who are attractive or womanly? None of us did, and neither did the original post or Meghan McCain. I don’t even see where the insulting different body types would be.
We just had the discussion about the worth of all different body types. How is it any more acceptable for you to claim that big-breasted, or ‘curvy’ (I’m guessing the quotes mean you’d rather just call them fat?) women try to make men like only them and not other types? Where do you even come up with this? I think you’re really reading something into it that isn’t there.
Perhaps the note that tank tops are more sexual on bigger breasts? That’s not an insult, it’s just a fact. A fact that most probably don’t like. When you have bigger breasts, shirts stick out more, and anything showing looks more overtly sexual than it would on smaller breasted women. This is hardly listed as a benefit, but rather a problem..
God Syd, If you had any idea of how many times I have wished I could trade places with B-cups. Do you seriously think women with bigger boobs (obviously excluding those with implants) grow them for the sole purpose of making men like them instead of you? You think it’s a fucking choice to have to special order bras or have every goddamn thing you wear tailored if you don’t want to look like an idiot? Or to have people call you a slut in anything you wear, because you can’t exactly hide F-cups?
I know its frustrating that men are breast obsessed, and absolutely idolize big boobs, but that’s not exactly the fault of women who naturally have them. And most of the women with big breasts in movies, magazines, etc DO NOT naturally have them.
I probably hate the beauty ideal as much as you do, because I was a D-cup before I finished elementary school, which means now, at the age of 28, it’s going to cost more than my student loans to get my breasts up to where they are “supposed” to be.
For just ONE DAY it would be awesome to try on/wear a button-down shirt that didn’t make me look like a linebacker. Or to own a coat or jacket that doesn’t make me look ginormous because I had to buy it two sizes too big to fit.
Almost every single advertisement and every clothing brand out there markets to slender women with smaller breasts. THAT is the ideal now; anyone over a size 4 is expected to “work harder” to be that way. You can’t really have missed the fact that being a size 12 and a D-cup is a social faux paus nowadays.
Seriously, what you wrote was really fucking hurtful.
Wow, that sounds rough.
My problem is the opposite: I’m an A-cup, and it’s actually quite difficult to find bras that fit me in adult stores like Victoria’s Secret (they do NOT have a very good selection for small-chested girls…or else all the other small-chested girls clean them out before I get there). I’m praying I will not be forced to hunt among the sparkly pink Hannah Montana bras in the tween department of JC Penney’s the next time I need a new bra.
I also think it’s unfortunate that men are so fixated on breasts. Some girls have them, and the rest of us are SOL. My fiance, thank goodness, loves what I’ve got, but I’ve heard guys say that they won’t even consider dating a girl with less than C-cups. But honestly, if those are the type of guys voulptuous girls women are attracting, I feel sorry for them! Maybe big-chested women get more male attention–but it it’s guys like that, who would want it, right?
You do have a point about clothes. I find that I can pull off tops or dresses that make my DD best friend look like a hussy. I always feel bad for her if we try on the same top and it looks fine on me but makes her look…well, kind of like Meghan McCain in the above picture.
Anyway, no matter what size your chest is, you’re bound to have some kind of issues!
I don’t care if what I said was hurtful, because what you said is just wrong. First off, you try being a size two and having D-cups (yeah, actually, you DON’T have to be a size 12 not to be flat chested, imagine that). Every moderately priced women’s store is catering SPECIFICALLY to you. They don’t sell shirts ANYWHERE that fit me. And to say that the ideal is small breasts is just ridiculous, I refuse to even comment on how insane that statement is. But you talk about having to pity you because you’re bigger and have big boobs, a very common common shape that every other women’s store caters to, to me, is just a pity wank. Sorry that I don’t think that the ‘real women have curves’ bullshit should be some kind of feminist mantra.
Actually, I’d say the Meghan McCain did by insisting that she IS more attractive than someone who has smaller breasts.
In A pop culture world her boobage is all well and good,but the fact is in a business world,and yes politics should be business not pop culture,boobs get in the way.
I ACTUALLY did the EXACT same thing and posted a pic of me holding something up in front of my web cam for my blog. Hot night, 3 am, Big boobs, little tank top, DID NOT think about what was hanging out.
The comments I got the next day were all about the tits I barely noticed since they’re, y’know, something I see everyday.
I barely know who she is though.
But of COURSE the GOP will be pissy about this.
A woman? Reading? HEeeeelll no.
“her message is entirely pro-woman, pro-sex, pro-gay and pro-self-worth.”
oh come on – she’s practically screaming “please pay attention to me! please! look – boobies!”
we should all discover and embrace our sexuality (women AND men) but i think expressing your sexuality and showing body parts is not the same thing. and if it was an accident, why not say “they’re boobs. get over it.” instead of lamenting that when the dudes do it they “are proclaimed hotties”….would anyone have been so quick to anger if CNN had done a segment about what a hottie Meghan is after this picture?
http://jimtreacher.com/archives/002130.html
That is all.
Wow, that was hilarious.
Am I terrible person for laughing immoderately at that?
Meghan’s been consistently pro-gay-rights and attacked for it.
I used to follow her twitter feed, but it’s one of those where it becomes your entire page. It was often very interesting, as was Sarah (governor of my state, yo) Palin’s; we always figured only some of Palin’s comments were actually from her, though.
It’s not the first time iMeghan’s bod’s been an issue, and it’s not always been obvious emphasis of the breasts, either. Laura Ingraham (who was very pretty in her day but in the too-skinny vein) kept calling her, essentially, a fat cow just to be a stupid bitch, basically. This does have a context. She got shit for much more modest pictures, literally just for having a big rack.
It’s a good comment, Sasha.
Well, i know one thing. MM is not a size 8. 10 or 12 maybe, but not an 8. She’s chunky. But so what?