I Need Some Guidance Regarding Bras Etc

Does my teacher have the right to tell me that I need a bra and that children’s clothes don’t fit me anymore? I just turned 13. She kept reminding me.

It's not a question of “do they have the right," since teaching (including teaching proper behavior) is their job.The professional approach to this would be to contact your parents to suggest it.Or - more likely, to involve the school guidance/counseling staff to do the same.Ideally, this would be done in a way that doesn't involve you directly, to avoid the appearance of shaming.If your teacher reminded you publicly and repeatedly (others heard), you might have a point in calling them out.However, it's worth pointing out that the teacher may have felt their relationship with you was such that developmentally appropriate advice would be more gentle if received in person from someone you trust.They may have been treating you as a young adult, rather than a child whose parents “dresses them.”I should also point out that “properly fitting” is often one of the stipulations of the schools dress code, and as such it may be the teachers professional responsibility to let you know when you're not complying with it.In this case, a reminder is definitely preferable to treating it as a disciplinary issue, but it should be delivered privately, and respectfully.

Why do I find all sports bras uncomfortable?

Hi. I am a breast cancer researcher and expert on the health hazards of bras.Sports bras are tight by design, and are actually too constrictive. Constriction is uncomfortable. In fact, all bras are guilty of the same thing, and the constriction is causing breast pain, cysts, and cancer.Bra-free is best, even for athletes, as some studies have shown. The female breasts were not designed by nature to need 20th Century lingerie for “support”.Try being bra-free when exercising. It may take some time for your breast suspensory ligaments to strengthen since they have weakened and atrophied from reliance on a bra. (This is how bras cause droopy breasts.) Many women report that their breasts lift and tone once they stop wearing bras. And they report that exercising, even rebounding, feels great bra-free once they get used to it.If you are wearing a sports bra as an alternative to regular bras, that is not a good idea. That’s like a man wearing a jock strap all the time to hold his testicles. It’s unnecessary, and it’s tight and uncomfortable. Men and women existed for millennia without these constrictive undergarments.

Would paramedics take off a female’s bra when using a defibrillator?

Here is my answer to a similar question:Shouldn't AED classes include bras on the mannequins to simulate a real life scenario for women that have heart attacks?Here is a cut and paste of part of that answer:The shoulder strap on the bra just needs to be moved to one side to place the upper pad. The lower pad can be placed just below the base strap of the bra, or the edge of the bra can just be lifted and the pad placed under it. If you look at the diagram for pad placement, you can see that the average bra is a minor obstacle.Here’s a video showing AED use on a female victim. Their pad placement isn’t the best, but it gives you an idea of what I’m saying.Let me just add:I have been doing this for over 18 years. Bras are rarely a problem, only if they have very wide straps and base. I have never seen an underwire arc. Mythbusters did a show on this and found that if a lot of things go wrong, leads placed far from where they should go, underwire exposed through the bra, etc an underwire might arc. An EMT is more likely to to have trouble with and need to remove a man’s chest hair than a woman’s bra.Underwire Bra Can Mess with Defibrillator

Should I encourage my 16-year-old daughter to go bra-less? I am concerned this could be too revealing, given her large 36DD cup size.

I’m a 34DD, though have cycled through 32 -36DD. When I was a teen, I used to like to be bra-less around the house, but it made my dad uncomfortable so started wearing a soft, loose sleeping sports bra just to keep things from moving around overtly. I never really wanted to go around bra-less in public except in an evening dress that was constructed for that purpose.I think you should let your daughter make her own decisions about this matter, though I have a couple practical concerns you might want to consider commenting about at your own discretion.Running hurts. Or you have to conspicuously grab and hold your bosoms while you’re running to keep them from bouncing around too hard - which looks quite bizarre and will draw attention she probably won’t want. So if she crosses the street or catches a bus regularly, or anything else which may cause spontaneous bouts of running, it will be a bit awkward. Furthermore, the ligaments supporting the breast aren’t muscle and do not benefit from repeated, excessive, impact loads - they eventually stretch and stop doing their job. If your daughter doesn’t want her breasts pointing towards her ankles by age 30, wearing a bra is a good idea.Looking professional is important. It is one thing to be a kid hiking around the countryside all free and jiggly. Its another thing to be a young woman representing a company or her school while being free and jiggly. If she has a job, or is planning to obtain one, or is giving a speech in class or whatever, she might find that some people are distracted by her chest and aren’t listening to her words or considering her actions. I loathe rape culture thinking, but it exists and will impact how she is treated in life.I find it amusing that many men are responding here in support of bra-lessness. Frankly, when a woman goes bra-less with a pair of DDs in a t-shirt (with nipples protruding), it is similar in impact to a well-endowed man wearing a speedo or ballet tights so that you can see the full shape of their junk and the whole thing moving around while they walk. Maybe we should be encouraging men to go around in ballet tights so all things will be equal and I will avoid parroting rape culture here. Or maybe we should all just go naked. But then there’s still the problem with running… shoot.