B-cup bra? That's like carrying around five cockatiels, says useful Japanese website
This news could really take a weight off your shoulders. Anywhere from two chipmunks to a kitten, depending.
Now, chipmunks and kittens aren't standard units of weight. But the Japanese branch of the Genie lingerie company believes it's time to set new standards, to address the problem of insufficiently supportive bras.
Obviously, breasts come in all different sizes, shapes, and weights. So Genie did some heavy lifting, and came up with a simple visual aid, focusing on breast weight in particular. A-Cup through F-Cup — all the measurements are there, accompanied by colourful cartoon pictures of women.
But the company's efforts to express breast weights in everyday terms are kind of a bust.
It says, for example, that the breasts of a woman who wears an A-Cup weigh approximately 326 grams, which, Genie says, equals the weight of two chipmunks.
For every cup size, Genie notes the approximate weight of the wearer's breasts in terms of birds and animals.
B-Cup: five cockatiels.
C-Cup: a newborn polar bear.
D-Cup: a wigeon duck.
E-Cup: one Netherland Dwarf rabbit.
And F-Cup: a three-month-old Persian kitten.
It's just possible that comparisons to random animals don't really give anyone a better sense of the weight of their breasts.
But further down the page, Genie offers a different conversion: pancakes — how many pancakes you could make if you added the weight of your breasts, in pancake mix, to water? A-Cup is 11 pancakes. F-Cup is 39.
It's clear what Genie is trying to do. But if breasts were brains, seems like the person behind this chart would be three cockatiels short of a B-Cup.
Don't believe us? You can find the website here.