Mostly just things that have caught my eye from other tumblers. Following a trend among my friends of making lists for my characters.
Cynical Idealism: Care to help out a trans woman?
Reblogged from the-happiestsadist
I copied this post off of susan’s
“My local radio station is having this contest, “The Breast Summer Ever” in which the company will fully fund the breast augmentation of the winning woman, on a…
I voted for Avery, but can we just talk about how fucking creepy I find the premise of this contest!?! Just try to picture the radio producers or whoever coming up with this idea. ‘Concert tickets have been sooo done! Lets give them something they’ll REALLY want - life-altering permanent surgery!!! FOR TITS!’
I don’t know how they came up with the idea. Do I find this contest creepy? Yeah maybe a bit. Also a bit surreal. But if it can help one of these women then I’m happy for that woman. This kind of surgery is expensive and not everyone is able to pay for something like that. My mother had to get one of her breasts removed because of cancer and ever since that moment she has hated her body even more. I think if there had been a contest like this one she would have probably tried it too.
I’m not saying anything against breast augmentation (I had a reduction myself so that’d be wicked hypocritical), but I DO think its really weird to market a prize like this… Surgery like this is a deeply personal decision and throwing a contest called “The Breast Summer Ever” on a pop radio station somehow doesn’t sit well with me.
i apparently lived in the Dallas-Fort-Worth Metro area too long. they’ve done something like that for so many years running that it didn’t even seem noteworthy.
is it connected to yet more body image fuckery? yep.
but i’m sad when anyone gets fake tits for any reason other than mtf or post-masectomy. because i really like real tits. there’s nothing interesting in fake tits for me anymore. so it’s less like “enhancement” to me if they already had something, and more like… they’re losing something i like. something i view as sort of fragile and adore-worthy. (yes, i know technically bad English, but i need the right frame for it.)
but i know that that is ME judging their body and their choices about it, and that is not my place.
it’s difficult to curb, but i try to these days, at least back to stating in a generalized manner, frequently and without embarrassment, that i prefer real breasts in all sizes and shapes and i know a lot of people also do.
The only thing I can think of is that while I was living in SLC, there was a radio contest where the winner got all of their dental problems completely fixed— medical and cosmetic, basically, congratulations, brand new chompers if you need it, and none of this take your teeth out shit.
I think I’d rather have an actual medical problem taken care of instead of someone dropping cash on me to make my tits bigger. just sayin’
