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Julian Sanchez | April 15, 2005

Politics is full of big boobs; Jacob Sullum ogles some at the National Organization for Women.

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|4.15.05 @ 2:45PM|#

Except for reconstructive reasons, I think breast implants should be completely banned.

I really, really hate fake titties..

|4.15.05 @ 3:02PM|#

How about that guy on the old Man Show that had implants and allowed Kimmel and Carolla to feel him up? Why were his breasts OK to show on Comedy Central but some other augmented person (who happenes to be a woman) are not?

What about if he was dressed up as a woman instead of as a nasty looking drunk guy?

Larry A|4.15.05 @ 3:50PM|#

They take an identical you-shouldn't-have-to-make-that-choice stance on gun ownership, among other issues.

NOW believes in every woman's right to agree with the NOW position.

|4.15.05 @ 4:04PM|#

which recently recommended that one manufacturer's implants be approved for general use but said more information was needed about the long-term performance of another's

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that one company paid out some bribes and the other didn't.

|4.15.05 @ 4:09PM|#

What was that old Onion headline--Feminists Speak Out Against Sexy Young Women?

|4.15.05 @ 4:25PM|#

thoreau,

No bribes, just a better product. I can't remember the name of the company whose product had a 10% failure rate, but it doesn't matter, their failure rate was too high.

|4.15.05 @ 6:36PM|#

NOW is ideological. Science and facts will never get in their way.

|4.15.05 @ 7:22PM|#

I too hate fake tits. They just don't feel right, and they often look cartoonish. I know that some guys who had a hard time getting laid in high school and college like them, but the real deal are oh so much better!

|4.15.05 @ 9:17PM|#

I always liked giving girls who were overly proud of their real boobs a hard time, saying things like, "fake boobs are better because they don't sag," and other mean shit.

|4.16.05 @ 1:20AM|#

"I like tits. Big, little, real, fake, really fake..."

badly misquoted from 100 bullits, but pretty much my feelings on the subject. I have sort of a naked woman fetish.

|4.16.05 @ 1:22AM|#

jesus, get a basement and a comic book collection, will you?

|4.16.05 @ 11:41AM|#

Research on replacement of silicon with titanium was never taken beyond the early pilot stage (tested by Madonna).
The board of directors was advised that titanium was the obvious choice, primarily because of non-toxicity, but there were other reasons. Continuing research was voted down, 8-3, the two female directors only able to get one male to agree with them.

|4.16.05 @ 7:52PM|#

"NOW believes in every woman's right to agree with the NOW position."

And everyone's obligation to do so.

In short, they are like everybody else (though there are variances in how well a given entity dissembles about it.)

The only question is who has the power in any given context, and to what extent they'll protest that they're not exercising power at all.

|4.18.05 @ 9:47AM|#

In a nutshell, here's what is happening: This is just part of a larger campaign that the MSM is just now starting to wind up against all forms of cosmetic surgery. The thing to keep in mind here is that most of this isn't really all that new; most cosmetic surgery and implants have been around for decades now. So what has changed? What has changed is that the cost has come down. MSM people were all in favor of cosmetic surgery when it was only available to the glamorous in-crowd, but now that it's available to the hoi-polloi, it msut be stopped! How dare the sheeple get access to that which only their betters could afford previously!