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Disturbing

A Elliot — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 17:06:20 -0600

That is very disturbing. Of course the first thing that popped into my mind was "I wonder when they're going to start advertising in parenting magazines" since women's nipples change color with pregnancy. In all seriousness, I wouldn't be too surprised to see it: an advertisment for an educational toy followed by one for nipple tint.
A Elliot

Excellent question

Suzanne Reisman — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:50:10 -0600

My mom had breast cancer when she was 33, and has had only one nipple since then, so sadly you are in good company. I think your only "advantage" in this situation is that you and my mom will have bottles of nipple tint that last twice as long as mine. Sigh.

Suzanne, BlogHer Contributing Editor - Feminsim & Gender
Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS)& Other Rants

too much time on their hands or too little on their minds?

laurie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:30:13 -0600

I only have one breast. Would I get a fifty per cent discount?

laurie
www.notjustaboutcancer.blogspot.com

Nippliquette

Mata H — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:31:32 -0600

Suzanne, I agree. I would love to have a life so free from care that I would worry that my nipples might not look as pink as the next gal's. Lordy me, at 57 I'd just like them to be less gravity-prone. Gravity is not our friend.

Do my dear swart nubbins assert themselves in cold weather? Yup. If they have come to public notice, as I am sure they have - well, somehow the world has managed to deal with it without raising or lowering its collective blood pressure.

I suppose that makes me a nipple-advocate. Of course I am pro-choice re nipple visibility. A woman has a right to choose whether or not she will allow her bouncy gals to perk visibly or behind a discrete shelter.

Oh and as for pubic hair dye? As I said, I'm 57 -- I hardly have time to dye it before a hair either vanishes on its own accord or is one of the very few who migrates successfully north to suddenly spring forward in a final desperate fling at life on my chin. Dye it? The least of my worries.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs relentlessly at Time's Fool

Make Your Nipples Ripe for Plucking!

Suzanne Reisman — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:13:34 -0600

Sometimes, like when a friend of mine in London sends me a nice picture of her new baby in a cute t-shirt that says â€œMy parents are pro-choice,â€ I feel that there is indeed hope for the future. Other days, friends send me links to news items in New York Magazine about nipple tint:

In just one more sign of the stripperization of the Everywoman, Benefitâ€™s Benetint, conceived in the seventies for an exotic dancer to color lips and cheeks, is now also being sold at Sephora and elsewhere as a â€œkiss-proof and water-resistantâ€ nipple tint. â€œWomen want nipples to be pert and fresh-looking, and this shade makes them appear that way,â€ Benefit spokeswoman Alison Haljun says. â€œFor a long time, the idea of a ripe, rosy nipple has been considered appealing and alluring.â€™â€™ But arenâ€™t the nipples usually undisplayed? â€œEven if you donâ€™t show it off, you know theyâ€™re rosier and more perky,â€ she says.

Iâ€™m not so sure that this really counts as the stripperization of Everywoman, but it does strike me as yet another way to steal hard-earned money from our abused wallets. (Don't forget the pubic hair dye for only $20 a box!) Do women really waste time worrying about the color of their nipples? I am a woman, and I have never thought about it.

On the other hand, I have spent an annoying amount of time trying to hide my nipples from the public view. Nothing is more embarrassing than going into a meeting and having erect nipples create an extra layer of a 3-D map of my chest. In fact, using Haljunâ€™s rationale for the usefulness of her product, I must not be a woman because I generally donâ€™t want my nipples â€œpert and fresh-looking.â€ I want them innocuous and invisible. I even buy thinly padded bras to achieve my goal.

Does this make me a prude? How do other women deal with nipple etiquette?

Suzanne unfemininely mocks stupid, useless â€œfeminine productsâ€ at Campaign for Unshaved Snatch (CUSS) & Other Rants