Size Matters

D-Cup Discrimination

In line with preventing discrimination for skin color, age, religion and disability, two new proposed measures are working their way through Congress.  The first one is directed at breast size, such that a smaller size of woman’s breast should not be a condition for discrimination in employment or lack of promotion.   The prominence of certain women golfers and their somewhat controversial outfits are partial trigger for the anti-discrimination initiatives.

Several industries and interested parties are fighting the new measures including house of fashion, breastaurant chains, beauty pageant promoters, professional cheerleader organizations, and the pornographic film industry.  The fear of these industries is a flurry of discrimination lawsuits affecting their industries reliant on the mammary features of a woman.  Similar thinking of discrimination prevention is also in progress for penis size, especially as it may affect male fashion models for underwear advertising.

The promoters of this anti-discrimination action have also focused in on a second proposed legislation on the “social norm of beauty” being used in certain industries for discrimination. This targets particularly the fashion model industry but also touches female news and sports announcers and telecasters as it has been noted that these “talking female heads” on television would be considered a select and privileged group of employees based on their looks at the expense of other women applicants.  While this bias in employment could be seen as normal or historical or natural and in line with cultural tendencies about appearance, especially in the modeling industry, the promoters of the anti-discrimination action have identified this as a bias that needs scrutiny for discrimination prevention.  Similar follow-on analysis also looks at subject male figures in the public media to determine if a “Ken-Doll” discrimination is also in effect.