An Argument

Big breasts are genuinely fascinating. That’s not a profound observation—just true. Anyone saying they’re indifferent is either lying or has trained themselves not to notice.

There’s a Russian artist, Pasha Pozdniakova, 18 years old, who paints and does yoga and started a Patreon campaign trying to become an Instagram star. That’s unremarkable—millions of people are doing it. What made her worth writing about is that she has, by any obvious measure, very large breasts. And people can’t stop documenting this, comparing her to other women like they’re competing for a title.

The piece I found was comparing her to some German TV personality, which is funny because it assumes you can rank women’s bodies and arrive at a winner. But what actually interests me is the eagerness of it—how quickly people turn a distinctive body into an argument that needs settling, a point that needs proving. That’s the real story.

I don’t know what Pasha Pozdniakova thinks about any of it. She’s just out there painting.