Boobquake: Afterword

What? You've not heard of it? What a shame. You're too late to participate in it, now. Except....

It started with one of those radical Muslim clerics claiming that the recent spate of highly publicized earthquakes was caused by women dressing immodestly. (He failed to show any awareness of the constant nature of movement in the earth's tectonic plates, leading one to think science is not his forte.) This statement of course caused some reaction. One young woman made a suggestion for testing this statement of cause and effect. It was called Boobquake, and it went pretty viral, even garnering mention on some national radio shows. My attention was first called to it when my daughter blogged about it.

The idea was that every woman should dress immodestly on a certain day, showing as much boob or leg as possible, and see whether an earthquake occurred. Hence the catchy name. The day came, it went, no quake, case closed. The cleric is a wacko.

Well, except....

I have tended to notice that when the earth moves for me, it's always preceded by immodest dress. Most often by no dress whatever, in fact. I'm even willing to go so far as to suggest it works much the same way for you.

Perhaps our weird little cleric needs to be taught about the difference between earthquakes and orgasms, eh?

Not that I'd volunteer.