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grantjack
10/30/09

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The interesting thing to me is, you'd never see someone getting a prostate exam. It DOES have to do with women's breasts being of interest to most people, for better or worse. #clips
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Rare Affinity
10/30/09

@grantjack: Just to repeat my earlier comment: a doctor examined a man for testicular cancer on British daytime television in 1999 and someone replied to my post to say they recently tested for prostrate cancer on the same show. #clips
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cand86
10/30/09

@Rare Affinity: I thought that you couldn't do a self-prostate exam? Was I misinformed? #clips
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Katxyz
10/30/09

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I can't have sound on right now. Was the censor bar on the original anyway? #clips
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Eleanor Ramilly
10/30/09

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I'm leaning toward "ratings stunt" even though the thought depresses me.
Breasts: They only exist in a sexual capacity! #clips
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Shelby
10/30/09

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"Yeah [it crossed the line]. There's small children, and you never know who's gonna be watching TV."
Roflberries. You feed small children with those. They know what they are and what they look like. #clips
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notadoll
10/30/09

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I think it's important to issue a disclaimer to let people know first, but come on. It's clearly not prurient, and extremely informative to women who may not have access to a doctor or other health resources. #clips
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mysterygirl
10/30/09

@notadoll: Like you said, it was informative rather than racy, and there were warnings in every promo for the news last night. I don't even watch much on ABC, but I saw them multiple times. #clips
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vulcanized
10/30/09

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I do think this was a ratings stunt, just based on the proximity to November sweeps. I don't believe any news station would put footage of a topless woman without thinking it would cause a stir.

However, I also think that it's sad that this showing a breast for the purpose of giving important medical information qualifies as a ratings stunt. It's a pretty sad state of affairs when breasts have been so sexualized that there are outbursts over nursing and over giving women information to prevent their breasts from killing them. I just don't understand why the addition of some adipose tissue suddenly takes a chest from fine and acceptable to sexual. But really just for women, since women with tiny breasts are still shaaaameful and guys with the charmingly named "bitch tits" can trot around topless if they so please.

All these people need to be shipped off to a nude beach in Europe full of families and old people so they can see that a body is just a body and you can be naked and still (shock of shocks, horror of horrors!) be fine and moral and raise lovely and non-warped children. #clips
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mrsdracomalfoy
10/30/09

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I'm just proud that they showed women the correct way to do this. The woman who said, "this could have been done on a mannequin," has *clearly* never touched her own boobs. You have to move, squish, etc. to fully get a feel for what is "normal" etc. You can't really show the correct way of doing it on a mannequin.

There are so many women who probably have no idea how to do this, that news broadcast could potentially save lives. And people are so up-in-arms about it?! #clips
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boxingoctopus should be dissertating
10/30/09

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Oh give me. a fucking. break. Katie Couric got a goddamn colonoscopy on live tv. I would much rather see bewbs than the interior of someone's colon. #clips
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jigglyball
10/30/09

@boxingoctopus should be dissertating: But colons aren't for SEXXXXYTIMES. I mean, you've never had to say, "Hey buddy, stop checking out my colon, my eyes are up here," have you?

/sarcasm. And also, ugh. #clips
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Ultraprison!
10/30/09

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Did anyone else have to watch a breast exam in high school health class? At least this way you don't have to stifle giggles in the privacy of your own home... #clips
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Rare Affinity
10/30/09

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In the UK in 1999, we had a doctor examine a man's balls for signs of testicular cancer on popular daytime television and the world didn't come to an end. #clips
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gherkinfiend
10/30/09

@Rare Affinity: They did the prostate exam recently on the same show. And the earth is still turning just fine... #clips
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SarahMC
10/30/09

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I saw this live yesterday. They kept warning the audience, as though they were about to show a live vaginal birth or something.

Her breasts were very, very small. I thought that made it even more absurd - her chest didn't look that different from a man's chest but it's this huge controversy.

I wonder how many assholes tuned in just to see titties. #clips
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axel_f
10/30/09

@SarahMC: "her chest didn't look that different from a man's chest but it's this huge controversy"

hey now :( #clips
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SarahMC
10/30/09

@axel_f: Hey, I'm in the IBTC too. I'm just saying; it's just the fact that she's a woman that this is getting attention. #clips
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SarahMC
10/30/09

@SarahMC: I am sorry for putting it so badly, though. #clips
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JuliaStepchild
10/30/09

@SarahMC: what does it matter that her breasts were small? are large breasts somehow more sexual or lascivious? small breasts make it somehow just like seeing a man's chest? sorry, but that seems silly. #clips
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SarahMC
10/30/09

@JuliaStepchild: It matters only in my own mind. I was struck because even very small breasts on a woman are considered more obscene than a man with large breasts. #clips
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JuliaStepchild
10/30/09

@SarahMC: what strikes me is that on a site like jezebel, commenters will advocate "normalizing" breasts so they're not viewed as sexual (see past post on national topless day), but then look at the recent "january jones' boobs hanging out on the GQ cover" post and the comments are all, "hooray for boobies, those are some hot boobs", as if suddenly 14 year old boys started reading jezebel. essentially, i have smaller breasts too, but as long as we are still living in a society that sexualizes breasts (that's not going to change soon), i don't appreciate being categorized as not as attractive or sexy as a woman with larger breasts... it just bugs me when people compare small breasts with looking like a boy. sorry, i saw your subsequent responses to the other replies here after i responded. #clips
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SarahMC
10/30/09

@JuliaStepchild: I'm really sorry. That was not what I meant but I don't know how else to get my point across. I don't think breasts are that sexy (since I'm hetero), nor do I think big = more womanly. But then, I don't really think anatomy dictates how "womanly" one is. I am speaking purely about the amount of fatty tissue on a person's torso and how it turns from OK to "needs a warning" depending on the person's sex. Again, sorry.

I am probably one of the more vocal Breast Normalization/Desexualization people on Jez and it weirds me out when hetero women talk that way about other women's breasts. #clips
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JuliaStepchild
10/30/09

@SarahMC: i hear you--i think it's weird when women talk about other women's physicality like that, too (as if it's less objectifying because it's coming from another woman?). i'm guessing some women do that to appear pro-body image, somehow or the antithesis of body-snarking, but it kind of misses the mark... anyway, cheers. #clips
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femme-bot
10/30/09

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Aren't you supposed to lay down when doing the exam?
Oh, and they're tits. Lets get over them. #clips
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Penny
10/30/09

@femme-bot: I don't think it matters so long as you lift your arm up...

I agree, tits are tits. Whatever. #clips
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jianna
10/30/09

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All I can think about is Office Space, "Hey Peter, man, check out channel 9, it's the breast exam!" #clips
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Penny
10/30/09

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They are boobs, they don't unlock the door to Hell or anything.

On another note, that "let your fingers to the talking" in the search box right above this post title is making me giggle. #clips
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vulcanized
10/30/09

@Penny: Seriously. In the immortal words of Cassie, stop acting like you haven't seen a titty before. #clips
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Maggita
10/30/09

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"With small children, you never know who's gonna be watching TV."

Kids only pick up on nudity when adults react in strange ways. Now they'll learn the woman's body is always sexualized to the point of being shameful. #clips
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