YNOT – Meghan McCain, the daughter of former presidential hopeful and current United States Senator John McCain, found herself at the center of controversy after she posted what seems to many like a rather tame self-portrait of herself on Twitter. The image in question did show off a healthy amount of cleavage, but Ms. McCain fired back at her Twitter critics who seemed to think the picture was too suggestive.“I spent most of the next day thinking about what exactly was so shocking about the picture, why there was such an immediate and nasty overreaction,” wrote McCain on her blog at TheDailyBeast.com. “After all, it’s not like I was caught making a sex tape. I certainly didn’t pose nude for Playboy. And I hadn’t even exposed a nipple.”
She went on to opine that curvy women with larger breasts aren’t treated the same as women with flat chests.
“For years I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more ‘sexual’ than a flat-chested woman,” she wrote. “And once again I was reassured by the media that someone with my cup size should always be covered up. Or what, I’ll be seen as a slut?”
Not everyone was buying McCain’s professions of innocent intentions, however. John Timpane of the Philadelphia Inquirer wrote that McCain knew what she was doing when she posted the picture on Twitter.
“What was Meghan McCain thinking?” Timpane wrote. “Daughter of Sen. John McCain, who came within a mere 9.5 million votes of becoming U.S. prez? She tells 60,000 followers on Twitter she’s lounging, reading an Andy Warhol bio. She adds a pic of herself and her book – and slinky tanktop, and cleavage to rival many famous geological sites. Outrage! Folks (even GOPers) questioning her, um, er, upstandingness! She tweeted she was “hurt” and had become “a vessel for harassment,” but SideShow suspects that Meg M, also a blogger for the Daily Beast, is just joinin’ da show. She has tweeted that she has a ‘juicy booty,’ and she hangs out with Tila Tequila. C’mon!”
An anonymous commenter on another website though was clearly supportive of McCain’s decision: “Nice sweater meat!”
