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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." @ runner (Friday, 10 September 11:28:02 AM)

Exactly, yet what is the basis of the ethics of those in Hollywood? (hint - it is the same ethic you support)
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"that many many girls wish to be groped", Houellebecq, Friday, 10 September 2010 10:01:00 AM

I can appreciate some tongue-in-cheek aspects to your first post (your tongue in your cheek), but that is over-stepping a mark, particularly when it is ambiguous as to whether you mean strangers or possibly the girls partners you allude to separately after the comma.

Then you slide off on a tangent with these strawman fallacies -

"Maybe, just maybe, others aren't as strung up and have confidence in men and women maturely navigating attraction and sex and the body in a mature adult way"

"people confident in their lives and without a chip on their shoulder don't need to read anything into the making light of mens attraction to women's breasts"

@ Houellebecq, Friday, 10 September 2010 2:21:26 PM

Maybe you should have a think about "your tone and flippant use of words"
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Talking about manipulative, James, this takes the cake

" it is a great way for some women to hide their feelings of resentment towards men."
Posted by JamesH, Friday, 10 September 2010 3:20:49 PM

As a male, I agree with the general premise that a "S*xualised bre*st cancer campaign sending the wrong message", and you guys support that.
Posted by McReal, Friday, 10 September 2010 4:29:41 PM
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Siren sounds, Blaaaaah. Yikes, it is another MTR alert - this time featuring boobs!
Worse still, boobs and interested men!!

Oh My God, call Hungry Beast:
http://wn.com/Hungry_Beast_Gullible_Australia?_Gullible_Media

Still, things aren't so bad, at least there hasn't been a body image alert (shudder, shudder), yet.

Next they will be outlawing bottoms.
Posted by Cornflower, Friday, 10 September 2010 5:04:24 PM
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Really, chaps, breast cancer campaigns are nothing to do with your sexual desires and gratifications. They aren't about you. That's the point of the article.

Just imagine a testicular or prostate cancer campaign that was run along similar lines. I don't think you'd like attention being drawn to your difficulties in getting it up while you are "under reconstruction."

Or would you wear t-shirts proudly proclaiming your "one ball" status?
SOS : Save Our Stones
And I can think of much more, but I doubt OLO would like it.

There's nothing wrong with raunchy sexy language, but there's a time and place and it's not in a breast cancer awareness campaign.
Posted by briar rose, Friday, 10 September 2010 5:42:39 PM
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James said: 'I cant remember who wrote it originally, but basically when women label men misogynists, they are saying "How dare you disagree with me!"'

Interesting. Matches my observation that when men label women 'feminists', they are saying, "How dare you disagree with me!"

As for those who don't think there's anything wrong with "Feel them up Friday"...get real. "Feel them up" is not an innocent phrase, nor is "cop a feel". And you think they lend a bit of humour to the cause, you're sadly mistaken.

I'm with Briar Rose - let's sell rubber gloves for a prostate cancer awareness "Feel them up Friday" and see how much fun the boys think that is.
Posted by InTownsville, Friday, 10 September 2010 8:18:22 PM
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While I think the article was a little over the top as far as protesting about using the sexualisation of breasts in a breast cancer campaign, I can understand why many people would not like those sort of 'advertisements'.

At the end of the day, some women and many men think of breasts in a sexual way, so maybe using these sort of 'out there' campaigns will reach some women that the usual doom and gloom anti-breast cancer campaigns don't reach?

I am sure that most men these days know of at least one woman personally who has suffered breast cancer, and the terrible effect it can have on all family and friends of the victim.

Most men will support any way of educating the women in their lives to the need for checking for breast cancer every month, just as women will support their men checking testes for lumps or having tests for prostate cancer regularly.

I would hate to see a subject as serious as this reduced to a gender argument on this forum.
Posted by suzeonline, Saturday, 11 September 2010 12:56:04 AM
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Not to mention men checking themselves for breast cancer, especially where it runs in their family:

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1675538,00.html

With apologies to the easily offended for the bare breast therein. Sexualisation of males, goodness gracious!
Posted by Cornflower, Saturday, 11 September 2010 1:25:38 AM
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