“Nice tits.”
That was the comment I heard when I was walking home from a night out. I had a V-neck on, yes, but that does not entitle you to make a comment about my body as you pass me by. What I’m wearing does not entitle you to feel as though you have to make a comment or justify the fact that you just completely degraded a complete stranger.
If you had any respect, you would have just kept your mouth shut.
But this is the society that we live in. Maybe I should have stood up for myself? Maybe I just didn’t care enough? Maybe I was scared of a retaliation from the boy who thought it was “cool” to say it? I’m not sure. Maybe it was the simple fact that this is such a normalized routine that women go through all of the time?
I wish I could say it doesn’t happen. I wish I could say that women aren’t objectified by their own body parts that make them so unique. I wish that I could say that women are respected because of these valuable parts, rather than being seemingly complimented by lines such as “nice tits.” The audacity of men to create “clever” comments about the figures of women – who they don’t even know – is disgusting.
It’s sad that it is so normalized to sexualize and objectify women. It’s sad that guys actually think that we like these “compliments.” We don’t – especially when they are unannounced and degrading. It’s not cute. It’s not attractive. It’s not a turn on. Quite frankly, it’s just the opposite: it’s disgraceful.
Women are constantly sexualized and why? What exactly turns you on about masses of fat on a woman’s chest that are used to nurse infants? Why are we constantly hearing harassing comments on the size of boobs or thighs or ass that we have? None of that should matter – and it sure as hell gives you no reason to call a girl out on her features.
Also, to the guy who said, “nice tits,” if you were being anatomically correct, it should have been “nice breasts,” “nice mammary glands” or “nice apocrine glands.”