Why Do Flat Chested Women Bother Society So Much?

Flat Chested Women Are Just As Rad: Society finds a way to put people in a specific box and while some boxes are special and celebrated others are too small to let an individual grow.

When it comes to women, turns out there is always a box and it is always too small and much difficult to get out of.

Let's think of the much-endorsed body standards as tiny boxes in which different women are stuck. While some tiny boxes can seem appealing to get it because that is what society tells us, but if we ask the women who are already inside, we will know it is as suffocating as all the others. Speaking biologically, breasts just a body part. While some have bigger breasts others have smaller ones. But because breasts are also one of the sexualised organs on a female body, the male gaze comes in starts making judgements according to their "preference".

Ananya Panday, actor and daughter of Chunky Panday, recently opened up about the body-shaming she went through because of her breasts. She said, "People used to say I look like a boy, flat screen. At that time, it did hurt because those are the years where you are forming your self-confidence. Now, I am reaching a point where I am focusing on accepting myself and loving myself. If that is sorted and that is my foundation then nothing can hurt me since I am at peace with myself and I love myself."

Almost every woman with a flat chest has heard such a thing said about her. The patriarchal society always finds a way to mock women for their body and in turn makes them hate themselves. But what is the "right size" for breasts because women with big breasts are shamed, women with small breasts are shamed and women with the flat chest are shamed.

Shouldn't breasts of all sizes be accepted? because we all are different and so are our bodies. Society's obsession with 'bodacious' female bodies is so complicated that it doesn't even serve women with 'bodacious bodies'. If a woman starts to flaunt them, they are often slut-shamed for simply accepting their own body. There is also a question of attractiveness, and men think it is they who decide which woman is attractive and which is not. Newsflash, women don't care what you find attractive and what you don't.

Many women have heard people joke about how they cannot carry a particular dress because it needs big breasts to make it appealing or small breasts to make it less "bold". The idea behind such regressive unfunny takes on the female body is nothing but the same thought that prevents women from loving themselves. We need to understand that our bodies are not built to serve or please anyone. It is only us who get to own it and one has to reach a point where they can love their body because why not?

Breasts are breasts. They can be small, big, uneven and still be beautiful.

Views expressed by the author are their own.