So BoobQuake has come and (has almost) gone. If you aren’t familiar with this particular experiment, you haven’t been reading / watching the news today. A little while ago, an Iranian prayer leader made the absurd proclamation that “immodestly” dressed women cause earthquakes. A blogger by the name of Jen McCreight responded with a mind attuned to scientific inquiry — we have been given a hypothesis, so let’s test it. She proposed that women everywhere don their most alluring apparel and observe the results… tectonically speaking, of course. What began as a simple jest steamrolled into a Facebook / Twitter / media blitz. (What?! People are drawn to stories about cleavage? Noooo…)

Now, earthquakes happen pretty much everyday, and today was no outlier. In Taiwan, a 6.5 tremor hit, thankfully causing little damage and (I believe) no casualties. However, this data is not conclusive, so I posit the above solution.

I think it’s funny that all of the news coverage attempts to argue both sides of the “feminist” perspective, while being perfectly content to display large photos of women’s partially exposed chests above the stories. This is purely for associated imagery, mind you, not some titillating attempt to draw viewers. It’s just there for confused people who aren’t sure what the journalists mean when they use technical terms like “cleavage”, “immodesty”, and “boobs”. By the way, I haven’t read any decent puns today mixing anatomical cleavage and tectonic cleavage. Just saying, the opportunity is there.

Anyway, let me know if you enjoy the comic, I hope it isn’t too offensive (:D), and I hope everyone had a memorable BoobQuake Day. I am absolutely terrified what ads Google Adsense is going to put on my page, by the way.

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