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The Forum > Article Comments > S*xualised bre*st cancer campaign sending the wrong message > Comments

S*xualised bre*st cancer campaign sending the wrong message : Comments

By Melinda Tankard Reist, published 10/9/2010

Many of the slogans used in bre*st awareness campaigns are about saving boobies, hooters or jugs.

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Hollywood along the porn industry has desensitized people to anything decent. No wonder we have young girls wanting boob jobs and then slicing their risks when they don't match up. More fruit of our increasing secular society. You are right Melinda but dont expect support from people who have little to no idea of any morality except their own made up kind.
Posted by runner, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:28:02 AM
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Ah I really enjoy your posts runner. I love the passion.
Posted by Houellebecq, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:50:19 AM
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Nelle

Maybe the advertising is appealing to women's sense of humor. It appealed to mine. C'mon, many feminists have worked hard to move beyond the old stereotype of joyless bores looking for opportunities to get offended.
Posted by benk, Friday, 10 September 2010 11:55:01 AM
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"You would never hear the sentence “She felt him up in the back of the car”.)"

Melinda obviously didn't live in the southern suburbs of Adelaide in the 1970s. This article makes a refreshing change from her anti-abortion rants. It's silly as a hatful of loons but that's OK.

Two points: why the asterisks in the headline?

Why can't authors post their articles first on OLO before they blog them? It seems a common courtesy that if you have something to say, say it first hand here and then reproduce it.
Posted by Cheryl, Friday, 10 September 2010 12:53:02 PM
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Whilst it may get peoples blood boiling talking about the sexualisation of breasts and mens interest in them.

There is also the effect that having a mastectomy may have on a womans feelings about her body.

this a very touchy topic, to discuss, where some women it has little or no effect, and others where it can be very traumatic.

Really concentrating on the sexualisation of breasts is little more than a red herring and a distraction.
Posted by JamesH, Friday, 10 September 2010 1:12:05 PM
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so it seems the usual misogynists are at it again today - let's see-

Houellebecq, JamesH, benk... surprised the Shadow Minister isn't on here to blast the article yet.

i just want to say i think this is a fabulous piece, there is no doubt that "cop a feel" is certainly the language of sexual harrassment and we cannot afford to trivialise such matters.

as a young woman i also find it repulsive that what is a normal medical check i give myself and have done to me by my regular doctor (who happens to be a really love male) - is now being sexualised. I have no problem with sex but i also don't expect to have sex thrust upon me.

imagine if this campaign took off (thank goodness it hasn't) - it could actually deter women from getting breast exams because the slogan "cop a feel" implies she's inviting the doctor to "feel her up" etc. how awkward for the doctor as well.

are we really so uncreative as a society that we can't think of other ways to make things matter?
Posted by Sylvie28, Friday, 10 September 2010 1:50:58 PM
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