Attack of the killer nipples

The good news is those weapons of mass destruction have finally been found. The bad news is your mother, sister, aunt, and grandma are all guilty of having them.

via Majikthise, we have an intriguing article on the evils of nipples and the technology used to get rid of them.

From Desperate House-wives' deployment of digital nipple-erasers to Victoria's Secret's nipple-negating bras, a campaign is under way to conceal one of the natural features of the female breast.

Oh my God! Save us from the nipples!!!! Help!! Grab the kids! They're coming to get us! What ever will we do?

Gary Grizzle, an associate professor of sociology at Florida's Barry University, says the trend represents a shift from a way of thinking in which a woman's ambition, not her sexuality, was considered the greater menace.

"For most of the '80s and '90s, the real threat, as far as women go, had to do with their career aspirations," he recalls. "Normally, we assume that when the focus is on women, they'll be very sexual and very submissive. It's the ones in the three-piece suits that scare the hell out of us."

And if there are nipples poking through that silk blouse under that three-piece suit, then run for cover!

Mr. Grizzle says current anti-nipple sentiments are steeped in the same notions that cause some religions to keep women covered up and out of holy places because a woman's "sexuality disrupts everything that men try to accomplish."

And we certainly wouldn't want our nipples getting in the way of men's accomplishments.

If our culture here in the U.S. would just stop nasty-fying the human body, it would be a much nicer place to live.