In America, we like our women’s breasts like our SUVs and serving sizes of food: the bigger, the better. This has led to enormous growth in the breast implant industry. God forbid any woman should have to live with the shame and sin of having small or even medium-sized tits. Such mistakes of nature can and should be fixed! Financing is available, of course.
The problem with fake boobs is that they all too often look, um, fake. Really bad fake boobs float like oval balloons embedded in someone’s chest with nipples grafted on to them. I’m not sure what makes them attractive to anyone, particularly when they are so big that they visibly stretch the skin to its elastic limit. I’d be terrified to handle boobs that look like they’d explode into my face like a saline Mt. St. Helens. I also seriously question the ethics of doctors who agree to give a woman breasts that are each the size of a small child. Putting fake boobs on people that could flood a small town if ruptured poses some serious risks posed to both society at large and to women’s bodies. Doesn’t the Hippocratic oath say “Do no harm?”
Like the waxed snatch trend, I’m not going to stop any adult women who really feel that breast implants will improve their lives in some way. The more women who buy into this demented idea that big boobs will solve your problems, the more pressure there is on other women to look that way to fit in or whatever. And the fact that money seems to flow for shit like this when there are so many real medical problems out there that are consistently ignored is even more troubling. Is it not a bit fucked up that you can easily secure financing for the life threatening condition of too small boobs but not for a mastectomy for women with breast cancer?
Just saying.
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I saw a show with plastic surgeons consulting with women about what size tits they wanted. Then the docs admitted ON CAMERA, that they almost always make the fake tits bigger than the woman ordered. Why? Because no one ever gets mad. The docs play god and the women just have to get used to the giant boobies. Yuk.
ReplyDeleteI have very large breasts. Believe me, I wish I didn't. I don't have breast implants, although a lot of people ask me if I do. I just tell them it's the wonder of the majic bra.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I've thought seriously about getting a breast reduction just so my back won't hurt so bad and maybe the ruts that have developed over the years in my shoulders from my bra straps might someday go away.
Honestly, it's a pain in the ass to have breasts larger than a D cup, which mine are. Even D cup breasts are unweildy. I was in a D by the time I was 14. Now, I'm a DDD. For me, at 5'4" that's quite large. I can't tell you how often I find myself being so envious of those women who have small chests and can wear those spaghetti strap tops without a bra. If I could, I would never wear a bra again.
It doesn't look like this breast reduction (which really scares the shit out of me. Have you ever seen one of those being performed? It gives me the willies.) will be happening anytime soon, though, since I'm still in college and have no health insurance. I'll just continue to buy the lunch lady bras and take loads of ibuprofen for my back until I can afford good health insurance.
I thought, though, that maybe when/if I ever got a reduction that I might get smaller implants just because I don't want that "over the shoulder boulder holder" look, you know? And because I have a history of breast cancer in my family. I thought if my breast tissue was removed, then there would be no risk of breast cancer.
I still am not entirely sure about all of this, but take it from a woman who has had over-large breasts all her life: they suck. Sometimes when I'm dealing with them, I feel like I'm trying to nail jello to a wall.
Suebob, that is very disturbing! Unfortunately, it's not just breasts that women are shelling out money to change their appearances: other plastic surgeries, liposuction, makeup, tight uncomfortable underwear to make them look skinny, etc. It's like women are being told that their bodies look bad all over. I'm all for choice, don't get me wrong. I mean I did have a breast reduction. I just hate hearing about how boyfriends and husbands have certain expectations about women's appearances. Can you breastfeed with implants?
ReplyDeleteWhen I had my breast reduction, my boobs looked really perky afterwards. No implants needed. They still do 2 children later despite the fact that I breastfeed for 5 weeks each, and that I put on weight so that my boobs are now bigger than they were before I got pregnant (although not as big as I was before I had the surgery.) In addition to the fact that I hated having large breasts, we also have breast cancer in our family and the doctor told me because of all the mammary tissue a mammogram would be hard to read.
ReplyDeleteThat's comforting to know. :) I wasn't really liking the idea of putting silicone into my body.
ReplyDeleteI had a breast reduction, too. I have fabulous little steam dumplings now instead of my old casaba melons.
ReplyDeleteImplanted 12" dildos will be next!
ReplyDeleteI was actually thinking about fake boobs last night. (Not for me, just in general.) I've never felt (squeezed?) them, but it seems they would feel funny. Maybe I like to grab my own boobs, and I don't want it to feel funny. Plus, I'm happy with my uber-average 34B. Maybe C if I want to kid myself.
ReplyDeleteI know lots of people that have had reductions (as evidenced by the above comments) but don't know a single girl (personally) that has had augmentation.