The Thrill Of Bralessness
From academia’s Clown Quarter, rumblings of radical import:
Gender and Women’s Studies Professor Sami Schalk suggested she may cease wearing a bra to work, citing, among other things, male “policing” of women’s bodies. “I don’t want to wear a bra to work,” Schalk said on Twitter. “It’s harder on my body & expensive AF.”
Nothing signals gravitas quite like a juvenile abbreviation for the words as fuck.
“All so [sic] some students think my tits don’t sag or don’t know I have nipples? Why?! As person with large breasts my body has always been heavily policed bc of how other people, mostly men, respond to it.”
An educator, remember. A shaper of young minds.
Schalk has gained notoriety on the UW-Madison campus for her outspoken opinions ranging from twerking to anti-police rioting. In 2019, wearing a cape that declared “I AM 100% THAT BITCH,” Schalk twerked with rapper Lizzo at a Madison show. In a column at Vox, she declared it “an act of political defiance.”
And a grown woman.
The event in question, this act of political defiance, and preparations for it, can be witnessed here.
“When Lizzo joined in, booty to booty — my butt blessed — it was pure Black Girl Magic,” she recalled.
When not exulting in her blessed buttocks and their magic blackness, or sharing boudoir photoshoots, or referring to the police as “fucking pigs,” Dr Schalk offers snacks and advice to rioters and arsonists, including reminders not to video each other while indulging in said rioting and acts of arson, as this may be incriminating and result in consequences, and subsequently harsh the buzz of being so terribly radical.
Recently, Schalk has focused on her right to be freed from the constraints of clothing and undergarments. When one Twitter [user] counselled that it was okay to occasionally “show some ass,” Schalk heartily agreed. “My ass is great,” she responded. “Sometimes I like to share it with the world.”
American readers will doubtless find comfort in this use of their tax dollars. $102,000 per year, or thereabouts.
But hey, bras are expensive as fuck.
It must be great to have a job where you never have to grow up.
Damn!
My academic article “Bra-less and trampolining” is still in review.
Clever juxtaposition of “boudoir photo shoots” and “fucking pigs.” Clever AF David. Although, I couldn’t get back to sleep after seeing results of said photo shoots.
Clever juxtaposition…
Truly, my cunning is infinite.
$102,000 per year, or thereabouts.
A small price to pay for such wisdom. If she could only throw lightning it’d be worth some real coin.
That arse is at least six axe handles in width. I may have to recalibrate my standardised metric for lumpen buttocks such as those so shamelessly displayed .
That arse is at least six axe handles in width
I learn so much from our little chats. Like the correct unit of arse-width measurement.
boudoir photoshoots
You know we are going to click it, you swine. Chances are that if one were to assume the foetal position and breathe out one would occupy a smaller volume than one of those buttocks.
“I don’t want to wear a bra to work,” Schalk said on Twitter. “It’s harder on my body & expensive AF.”
The bra isn’t the problem. It’s being so fat.
You know we are going to click it, you swine.
I like to think I’m giving you choices.
The bra isn’t the problem. It’s being so fat.
Sshh. We mustn’t speak of such things.
Blame the bra. Bad bra.
Gender and women’s studies? Surely she also dabbles in fat studies too…
As a professional photographer, I am no fan of boudoir since so much of it is so contrived. Who the hell holds up their wall as the first picture shows? It’s the same with the old “put your rump to the wall and stretch your legs up” pose – that, in my mind, is pinup, NOT boudoir.
The few times I do boudoir, I like to explain to the subject what a woman’s boudoir was: more than just a place to get dressed, it was where she read and wrote love letters, daydreamed, or, yes, masturbated. With that in mind, I think boudoir shots should have a voyeuristic sense to them, a glimpse into a private space. When you’re in a bra and panties kneeling on the couch and smiling at the camera, where’s the intimacy in that?
And don’t even get me started on boudoir “empowering” women. It’s done to show her friends and get her ‘OMG BECKY YOU’RE SO BEAUTIFUL IM OBSESSED YASS QUEEN!!!” reactions from them.
When you’re in a bra and panties kneeling on the couch and…
[ Faints. ]
“put your rump to the wall and stretch your legs up” pose
Sorry, I’m not getting that. Can you provide samples? Graphic samples?
Can you provide samples? Graphic samples?
[ Fetches hamster urine, rolled-up newspaper. ]
Bad Karl.
You know we are going to click it, you swine.
[Rolls mouse over link, sees Instagram, realizes there is a reason he doesn’t have an account]
Schalk twerked with rapper Lizzo at a Madison show. In a column at Vox, she declared it “an act of political defiance.”
A modern day Crispus Attucks she is. Show of hands, is there anyone who thinks twerking, done by regular or giant economy size people, is any way attractive/alluring/sensual/erotic ?
“My ass is great,” she responded. “Sometimes I like to share it with the world.”
♫When the moon hit your eyes,
Of Brobdingnagian size,
That’s professore…♫
Headless Bodies in Topless March
put your rump to the wall and stretch your legs up
“Throw your hands in the air like you don’t care…”
Sorta the same…
♫Don’t try to understand ’em
Just rope, throw, and brand ’em…♫
Leftist = irony-proof. How else to explain this person calling anyone a pig?
“Sometimes I like to share it with the world.”
“I’d like to buy the world a Coke, and keep it company”
Heh.
Oh, and “sharing is caring”. Or some such blather.
…global cultural phenomenon…
There is a Ted Talk about it, so it must be true.
Shape Magazine. OK, but I am not sure “amorphous” is technically a shape.
I agree.
A bra won’t help her.
Another Toys ‘R Us kid.
I believe the word is ‘wallows’.
*Adds ‘bralessness’ to spellcheck dictionary*
Pics or GTFO
…global cultural phenomenon…
[ wipes tendie crumbs from PJs and dons problem glasses ]
AKSHULLY, race is a social construct. Clearly you’re suffering from internalized neo-climate capitalism.
Shape Magazine. OK, but I am not sure “amorphous” is technically a shape.
Fatberg? Gas giant?
♫When the moon hit your eyes,
Of Brobdingnagian size,
That’s professore…♫
Academia needs SMOD.
And don’t even get me started on boudoir “empowering” women. It’s done to show her friends
Well, then boudoir photography may have “evolved” than when it first became a *thing* in the 1990s. The women I knew who did it usually did it for their husbands or fiancés. It was just a more intimate set of photos than the popular Glamour Shots that were the rage. And it was done on in-studio “fantasy boudoir” set, not in someone’s living room.
But then I looked at the photogs website — they seem a lot more interested in marketing themselves as “Queer/Ally” than doing excellent work.
Closely related to the blue whale, the black land whale shows none of it’s aquatic cousins grace, majesty or self awareness.
Invidious thought for the day: UW-Madison shifted the boulder as the equipment was insufficient to shift Professor Schalk.
“I don’t want to wear a bra to work,”
How 1970s feminist she is!!
“It’s harder on my body & expensive AF.”
If her bra is uncomfortable, she doesn’t have the right one. This is like her trying to shove her size 28 tuchis into size 16 jeans. And expensive? Want to wear a cheaper bra? LOSE WEIGHT. Flopping around braless is going to HURT more with those sacks of wet sand.
Want to wear a cheaper bra? LOSE WEIGHT.
[ Slides pint of advocaat along bar to Darleen, followed by a straw. ]
Somewhat related.
Flopping around braless is going to HURT more with those sacks of wet sand.
Somehow, despite never witnessing such a thing, I can imagine the exact sound that makes. Now I need mental eye and ear bleach. Thanks Darleen.
Flopping around braless is going to HURT more with those sacks of wet sand.
Just more proof that gravity is a tool of the Patriarchy. It literally keeps people down.
From the linked article: Schalk…urged protesters not to “video tape folks doing anything illegal,” to “wear black,” and “wear shoes you can run in.”
In her case, one assumes that “shoes you can run in” means Acme® Rocket-Powered Roller Skates.
How else to explain this person calling anyone a pig?
Projection.
Like most people who have allowed themselves to get that fat, the overeating/unhealthy lifestyle is itself a coping mechanism for some suppressed anxiety. The resulting morbid obesity leads to deep self-loathing, which she covers by insisting to all and sundry that she really is beautiful. She’s mostly trying to convince herself, which only works if everyone agrees to play along. This is why the most effective motivator for the morbidly obese to lose weight is body-shaming: strip away the denial and the only thing left is the self-loathing.
[ Slides straw along bar to Daniel, nods towards Darleen’s pint of advocaat. ]
Like most people who have allowed themselves to get that fat, the overeating/unhealthy lifestyle is itself a coping mechanism for some suppressed anxiety.
I have watched obese people in restaurants unconsciously chase every crumb scattered on the table. 🙁 I suppose that bad habits can have many causes, but once acquired they are very hard to change.
I suppose that bad habits can have many causes, but once acquired they are very hard to change.
It’s the overwhelming level of ignorance that still surprises me. I was at Disney World standing in line for a ride. There was a family of four just ahead of me. Each family member was morbidly obese including the children. The son who looked to be about 12 must have weighed between 250 and 300 pounds. He was hungry and was talking to his mom about getting a snack. He wanted those disgusting nachos and the gallon sized coke. His mom advised him that the drink had too many calories and he should just have the nachos. I mean you could tell she was concerned but she truly believed her son eating an industrial sized tray of nachos and a small cola was the healthy option.
It’s the overwhelming level of ignorance that still surprises me.
I can trump that with obese people who insisted, sometimes angrily, that cutting sugar and carbs was not an important key to weight loss.
morbidly obese including the children
I have also seen morbidly obese couples whose pets were all obese, too.
With all the terms recently entering popular lexicon due to the Wuhanity – eg “asymptomatic”, “cytokine storm”, “viral load” – it seems the “morbid” in “morbidly obese” has been utterly forgotten or ignored. I hear that the TV is always going on about unvaccinated people and their health troubles. I wonder how morbidly obese people – whose fatness is so proximate to death it has a commonly used description – are fairing.
A solution to the Beer Crisis discussed in the previous thread.
Well, then boudoir photography may have “evolved” than when it first became a *thing* in the 1990s.
Late 1980’s…1989 specifically, I had a job interview with a guy who was about my age. Sitting in his cube, over his shoulder was a boudoir pic of his rather attractive wife. Needless (?) to say I didn’t get the job. Quite certain I was better off for that.
Husband: “You should try eating less and walking more.”
Wife: “It’s not as easy as that!”
Husband: “Really? It worked great for the dog.”
(He’s expected to make a full recovery.)
Actual food order overheard once. “Double bacon cheeseburger, large fries, apple pie — oh, and diet Coke.”
She’s mostly trying to convince herself, which only works if everyone agrees to play along.
For newcomers, the mental contortions of “fat activists” – and the brittle, unconvincing nature of “body positivity” in particular – have been mentioned here before.
If you are loudly woke, you can actively support insurrection and arson as well as doing lewd things on the web. If conservative, merely donating $10 Kyle’s defense suffices to get you fired. tots the same