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Braffering
Braffering: Suffering by Bra
Suffering.
Women, especially of the African variety, aren’t new to this. In fact, since we could do the shuffle out of our mother’s womb, we’ve been told that our ability to withstand suffering is the principal thing — so we seek it at all cost. You see this behavior exhibited in women who suffer through domestic abuse of all kinds, workplace abuse, and so on.
With that in mind, let’s talk about another form of suffering that’s commonplace, albeit innocuous — the ones we women inflict on ourselves with the deadly contraptions called bras.
Today, while at work, yours truly felt a sharp pain (finally) on her left endowment. This pain wasn’t new. As a matter of fact, if memory recall is to be relied upon, the pain had been there for as many days as that particular bra was worn in the past week (a number greater than one #ifyouknowyouknow) but I ignored it. Or strangely enough, I didn’t just pay attention to the sharp pain that was coursing through my body. It might interest you to know that the source of the pain was no other culprit than the underwire metallic construction that was meant to hold and bolster the left and right endowments in place. Talk about betrayal of the highest order! Far from making my endowments stay in place, the underwires (the left one specifically) were stabbing me. I…
