How many times have you pulled on a pair of jeans that flatter you in all the right places only to look down and realise you have a raging camel toe?
As Caitlin Stasey has realised, that’s because your jeans’ designers are sexist. Yes, that’s right – sexist. Downright discriminatory even. Bear with us.
In a recent Instagram story, the 27-year-old shared with her followers she was having a “consistent problem” with her bits being front-wedgied by her tight jeans.
As she points out, men's jeans are designed with a gap for their frank and beans at the front, while women's jeans don't leave any room for their labia.
"I do feel like it’s a bit discriminatory, because, like, they make allowances for men's genitalia, but women’s jeans do not," she mused.
Pointing to her crotch, she said, "I personally don’t mind, but it is, like, unmistakable."
Yes, it definitely is. And it's a common problem for women who don't want to have quite so little left to the imagination - not to mention feel uncomfortable as they go about their day.
Most of us will go for jeans in a bigger size and compromise on the fit in other areas, or buy the jeans anyway and be pulling them down every few steps.
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Perhaps the reason why our jeans aren't designed to allow for our lady bits is that society's image of a vulva is a neat, Barbie-style mound. As we discovered, there are five types of vulvas and almost no one has a Barbie.
Maybe, as Stasey suggests, it's time designers started thinking about our vulvas.
Do you think jeans are sexist?
Top Comments
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Hahahahaha. What a load of rubbish! I've never had this problem with jeans and no one I know has either. Perhaps if she tried the size up (they look awfully tight in the picture) she wouldn't have this problem. Guys will have the exact same issue if they wear too small a size as well. Sounds to me like she's just trying to be controversial again just for the sake of it. If you don't like the way they fit, go put on a skirt. Oh hang on, I'm sure she has something against them too. A symbol of female oppression or something like that...