terfkirby: achapstickdyke: tink-crash: “You have to buy bras” No one has to buy bras, br
terfkirby:achapstickdyke:tink-crash:“You have to buy bras” No one has to buy bras, breasts are not an physical condition that needs proper equimentThere’s no downside to removing them? I had a breast reduction thanks to unbearable back pain and constant skin infections underneath my breasts thanks to constant under-boob sweat. I had my initial surgery and then my scars healed weird - this can happen with mastectomies, too - and I had to have another surgery. My surgery site on my left side got terribly infected. It was awful and dangerous. I had thick puss oozing out of my left breast. It was hot and red. I had a fever and I couldn’t move my upper body. If it had gone on for long enough, it could very well have been life threatening. It’s been years since my surgery and I still don’t have proper feeling in my nipples or any feeling along my scars. I still want them smaller but I know the root of it is that I live in a world where it’s easier to not have breasts than to have men constantly fucking staring at them. I still want them smaller but I know the root of it is that when I was a child, my body was vulnerable thanks to something completely and totally natural. I still want them smaller but I know that the root of that is that sexism and misogyny rule society and that changing the world seems futile so it’s easier to change myself and label my own dysphoria as been strictly internal rather than something I was conditioned to feel through years of socialization. There’s no downside to removing them? I mean… I’m not saying sex dysphoria doesn’t exist but, with the rise of elective mastectomies taking place, we’re not addressing the core causes of dysphoria in women. We’re really not. The downside of removing our breasts is never addressing the violent sexist society we live in and succumbing to the idea that it’s truly awful to be a woman - not the reality that society is awful TO US because of our bodies. Sigh. That’s the downside. Considering the fact that any major surgery has risks and complications uhhh yeah there’s definitely downsideswhere does this mindset that literal surgery is, like, harmless and easy (and not totally expensive?) even come from? -- source link
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