With respect.

My experience of the BS section of this board is that you can't dictate how threads go. Almost every thread I've ever started has been hijacked, and I cheerfully accept that my ownership of a thread, if ownership ever existed at all, is forfeited the second I hit the submit button. If you want a respectful discussion of bras, I'm up for that and I won't come near the thread. But you simply can't dictate, and if you get blokes, or other women, making light, then that's life.

Perhaps there are other places on the web where sympathetic and constructive discussions of sports bras would stand a better chance. I'm sure there are valuable sources of information out there as there are for lots of other sensitive issues. Personally, I won't be searching for them.