I live in a small community and I don’t want any of my friends, co-workers, family or acquaintances to look at me and think “She’s wearing a white bra or could it be some other color?”. It’s nasty.

What’s next? For uterus cancer we’ll be asked to put “virgin” or “non virgin” on our status? That’s not interesting information…well, to me, it’s not. But that’s my own personal opinion whether I rose to the level or not.

Also, this is the internet. Everything posted can be posted by anyone. Just as in real life, they could be lying or telling the truth, serious or playful, joking or sarcasatic. In real life, we can often tell the difference from tone of voice. On the internet there is only text, and text can be misconstrued very easily, particularly when using the English language. There’s a reason why we use smilies and *action* words. If we didn’t, then something said in a joking fashion could be turned into a very nasty insult resulting in the destruction of an otherwise happy relationship.

When it comes to things in the digital world, people should remember that it’s all make-believe. Yes, there is a lot of truth to be found, and it’s a very helpful resource. When it come to things like Facebook, where information presented is reliant on the individuals, things should be taken with a pound of salt because the only way to know how truthful it is lies in actually getting to know the person in real life.

On the one hand I wear strappy tank tops often enough that my bra color isn’t private information to almost anyone who sees me in person. Everyone knows that I’m wearing a bra, so I don’t see it as that big of a deal if they see the strap. On the other hand, I don’t make it the topic of conversation or run around making sure everyone notices. So I didn’t participate in the Facebook campaign when it hit my inbox.

Besides, I hate slacktivism. What’s the supposed intention of this campaign? To make people “aware” of breast cancer?

I think people are already aware of breast cancer. If you want to help, give money to the cause or volunteer to work with breast cancer patients and their families. Posting your bra color on Facebook doesn’t make people “aware” of anything but your own boobs.

I know people who are happy to be nudists in public but don’t want you to know about their medial or financial health.

On the other hand Americans are paranoid about body privacy but often quite forthcoming about their finances and how much they paid for something.

While some people tweet their location all day long others some prefer their comings and goings, the affairs of life, to be private, but don’t mind you seeing them at the beach in a swim suit or for that matter in their underware.

Bra color, heck that’s even a common subject on TV shows like House. Most women are not concerned with if you know the color of their bra, but are concerned about how you found out. No one likes to be spied on.

Living in the Sunny south we see a lot of bras, bikini tops and exercise tops. Down here it’s normal outerwear unless you are obese and need to wear a shirt all the time. We even see topless women on the beaches, Welcome to South Florida.

I always taught that Americans aversion to the body was driven by the fundamentalist nature of their religions, but maybe it is simply a product of embarrassment over their obesity. I notice the less obese ones are less embarrassed or paranoid about people seeing their bodies or knowing what they are wearing.

So, assuming the critiques really do have a lot of merit, what percentage of the above would you place in the “slactavists”, “sexists” and/or “exhibitionists” categories?

For those who made the comments about boxers or breifs, I don’t want to know that information. Please, keep that to yourselves.

This post shows us, I think, a contrary example, and I wonder what exactly that\’s contribute able to. Is it the more gender balanced environment of Facebook? The element of control that a Facebook poster has over the distribution of their comments? Possibly, as another comment suggested, the posters simply didn\’t consider this private information. Although I suspect that they would have considered it such if the result of their comments was harassment and derision.

Maybe I\’m just recapping the original post, but I wonder if anyone else sees it similarly?

JMS

I am also incorrect in previously assuming only teenagers buy the bright (outlandish) colors and patterns at Victoria’s Secret for daily wear. So I am more boring than I previously thought. Perhaps I should stop now, Take it as a sign, give up designing, and go to law school.

I would predict a much lower level of participation if the exercise were to report something more universally considered private/intimate, such as one’s current bra *measurements*.

Really? People actually think that the mere color of a person’s bra, voluntarily shared — not visually but through text, is not just intimate but “highly” intimate?

One can only wonder what such people think when they walk down the beach, or even a city street, on a hot summer day.

[Also, it's kind of funny that the "anti-spam" word I have to type in is "broad".]

Besides, you men started it, years ago, with your willingness to discuss on late-night TV and everywhere else your preference between boxers and briefs — a choice which, I suspect, is a lot more stable on a day-to-day basis (and therefore more revealing in a digital dossier way) than any of the colors posted yesterday. Don’t hate on us women for following your manly lead.