Quote: I developed early and dramatically. By age 12, I was a double D. A skinny, awkward prepubescent GIRL with big ta-ta's
W too. I've wondered about lots of things over the years, but some of the things she's said about boobs, and her reaction when the MC asked her why she hates men gave me another thing (or two ) to ponder. W was disgusted by the adolescent fixation on her boobs - adolescent fixation that was quite normal when dealing with adolescent boys. As I've related several times, she's claimed to have been molested by her older brother, but the one and only incident that she has ever related was feeling her boobs.
She's also very sensitive to any naked breasts in movies. She's never commented on the sexual content, never commented on full nudity, male, female, or both, but she has never failed to comment if the nudity is limited to female breasts. And those comments are invariably deprecatory towards the breasts in question. The most common response being, “I don’t know what she wants to show them for – there isn’t much to show.” On rare occasions she’ll just gripe about them showing breasts at all, with some comment about why they always have to show boobs, but generally there’s some disparaging remark about the boobs themselves, the woman they’re attached to, or both.
On a similar note, we commonly vacation in Europe. We’ve been to western Europe several times, but since adopting D13 from Romania, we’ve tended to go to Romania at least once every couple of years to take supplies and to work in the orphanages. Most of the time we take a break from the working part of the vacation and spend a couple of days at the Black Sea. Well, this is Europe you know. A lot of the women are topless at the beach. This greatly offends W. Having grown up in Europe, I don’t see the big deal, but W takes great pains to avoid being in close proximity to any of the aforementioned topless women if she possibly can. When I was taking a few pictures, W admonished me to make sure that I didn’t get any of the “boob girls” in the pictures. Now we’re not talking close-up pictures of topless women here – just wide beach shots. Very weird if you ask me. Why the boob fixation?
W will almost never get over waist deep in the water (except clean, clear, solid-bottom pools), but two years ago, D(then)15 and I were out pretty far in the Black Sea jumping and body surfing in some fairly large waves. One big wave crashed over us and neatly removed D’s top. She told me that in that half-second burst that always runs through your mind at a time like that, she had three thoughts in rapid succession. First – oh no! Second, so what, it’s no big deal here. Half of the women out here are topless. And third, I hope Mom didn’t see that.