"It’s not that I mind seeing breasts everywhere; after all, I have two of my own that I quite like."

"But it’s disheartening that breasts are often considered more interesting than the women they’re attached to – as if we’re an afterthought compared to our body parts. But now a bevy of women, in a matter of days, have taken back the tit. We’re reclaiming the rack, whether you like or not.... You don’t like it? Tough titties."

Writes Jessica Valenti in a Guardian column titled "Topless Keira Knightley is not alone: 2014 is the year women reclaimed our boobs."

For a prescient Althouse post — pinpointing 2006 as the year of "boob" reclamation — see "Let's take a closer look at those breasts."

(I put "boob" in quotes because that is not my style of slang. Nor is "tits," for that matter. I never use any word other than "breasts" (unless I'm quoting someone else).)

ADDED: 2 more things:

1. A "bevy of women"? I don't think I've ever seen the word "bevy" used outside of the trite phrase "bevy of beauties," where it seems old-fashioned and insufficiently attentive to the personhood of women but at least alliterates.

2. Why is it "disheartening that breasts are often considered more interesting than the women they’re attached to"? Lots of women aren't very interesting, whereas breasts have a base level of interestingness. If you're someone who believes you are regarded as less interesting than your breasts, become more interesting. I don't see how calling more attention to your breasts — in some sort of out-and-proud move like baring them in a magazine — is supposed to boost the relative interestingness of the aspects of you that are not your breasts. Do you imagine there's something especially feisty and feminist about posing with naked breasts that somehow transcends all those women in the past who thought they were baring their breasts in an exciting new way? I've heard this self-deception for at least 40 years. I'm sure Hugh Hefner has whispered it to bevies of beauties.

 AND: The word "bevy" — according to the OED — may come from words about drinking. Think: beverage. In any case, "bevy" is one of those "company" terms (like "pride" for lions), and it was long ago deemed "The proper term for a company of maidens or ladies, of roes, of quails, or of larks."

c1470   Hors, Shepe, & G. (1822) 30   A beuye of larkes, A beuye of ladyes, A beuye of quayles, A beuye of roos....
1667   Milton Paradise Lost xi. 582   A Beavie of fair Women, richly gay.

ALSO: I wonder if Jessica Valenti is thinking about the adolescent girls who are prompted to take selfies of their naked breasts and send them or post them who knows where. She's put it out there that these girls ought to consider themselves good feminists for engaging in this behavior that is likely to do them no good. In this light, I think Valenti's column is frighteningly destructive.