‘Under Boob Pen challenge’ sweeps the internet, proving whether you’re a ‘real woman or not

IT’S the latest internet craze that determines whether you are a ‘real’ woman or not. If you can hold a pen under your breasts, apparently that’s how to prove it.

Women are posting boob-holding pen pics

YOU’D hope that with every passing year, we get a little wiser. But if this latest internet craze is anything to go by, the answer is no. No we don’t.

In a bid to prove if you’re a ‘real’ woman or not, social media users around the world are grabbing a pen, and placing it under their unsupported breast.

If the pen stays in place, well done — you apparently passed the test and proved to the world that you’re a woman.

If you can hold a pen under your breast, apparently you’re a ‘real’ woman. Picture: Supplied.

Labelled the ‘Underboob Pen Challenge,’ the test has stemmed from the argument that ‘real’ women are buxom and big breasted. The slightly pervy trend has seen some users experiment with the item under the boob, such as cosmetics, brushes and small bottles.

This social media users up the ante and held a makeup bottle under one boob. Picture: Supplied.

The trend, which according to the Mirror has “been shared millions of times across Chinese social media channels” has often been accompanied by the caption “pass the challenge to prove you’re a true woman.”

This is just one of many ‘beauty’ tests that have swept the internet in recent times, filling social media with fat-shaming, body-hating sensations. We have seen the ‘finger trap test,’ where people place their index finger against the chin and nose to see if their lips touch their finger. If they don’t, congratulations — apparently you’re hot. If they do, well, hopefully you have a good personality.

The finger trap test. Picture: Instagram.

Thigh gap was the fitspo fad that demands legs so skinny, they don’t touch. Picture: Getty Images.

The thigh gap trend was another social fad that sparked concern from body image groups. The craze saw social media users posting pictures of the space between their thighs as a way of boasting they were so thin that their legs didn’t even touch.

And remember the bikini bridge? This trend saw women posting pictures of their lower abdomen region with protruding pelvis bones. The angle was in such a way that the waistband of the bikini bottoms lifts up from the skin.

The bikini bridge took over from the ‘thigh gap’ trend. Picture: Twitter.

In response to the new boob craze, Aimee Fletcher, who has undergone a double mastectomy, posted her chest on Twitter.

“Guess I’m not a real woman — both before and after cancer” she wrote.

Aimee Fletcher had a double mastectomy, and posted it back at people taking part in the ‘craze’ on her Twitter page. Picture: Twitter.

Ms Fletch told the Mirror online that “Some people are so stupid and willing to do anything to get their bodies on the internet.

“I think that true womanhood comes from within, you are not defined as a woman by how you appear externally.”