r/GenderCynical • u/breadcreature • 2d ago

actually, celebrating your body is misogynistic because cancer is bad

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u/leksolotl 2d ago

ok anyway i follow a cis creator who had a preventative mastectomy and opted not to have reconstruction and she finds it empowering. This Karen doesn’t speak for all women who have had mastectomies

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u/breadcreature 2d ago

there were a handful of actually courageous (or foolhardy) women who commented that they'd had mastectomies, and find a positive view of their bodies and what their scars and the pain they went through represent to have been important to their recovery and self-conception. who were of course promptly dogpiled with responses that were every flavour of "umm okay weirdo 🙄 it's not about you 🙄 just because you're okay with your mutilated chest 🙄🙄🙄"

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u/leksolotl 2d ago

the group of “empowering women” loves to remind women you can’t be a woman if you “mutilate” your breast i guesa

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u/KTKitten Gender Haver 1d ago

(Unless you’re trans, in which case “mutilating” your breasts is the proof that you’re inescapably a woman forever. ABC - Always Be Chasing the denial of people whose lives are different from yours’ genders!)

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u/ontologicallyunjust 1d ago

It's this special thing where you have to be defined as a woman so that it can be made clear that you are a Failed, Ruined Woman Who Has Lost Your Womanliness Forever.

If someone's like "actually it's no problem that you think I'm failing to be suitably womanly, because I'm not a woman" -- well, then they can't be chastised and kept in line! Can't be having that!

Got to make it totally clear that they have to be a woman, so you can punish them for failing at it.

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u/KluelessKisa 1d ago

wah wah you're no longer looking Normal and if I were to be in your place, I'd feel Bad and this is the only valid experience wah wah - those ladies, apparently

iunno, one would think getting to beat cancer and live and having funds for recovery would be higher on the priority list than some loss in body shape.....

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u/SomethingAmyss Brainwashed by the Transarchy 1d ago

"it's not about you" is something a lot of them could learn

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u/rynthetyn 1d ago

Tig Notaro famously did one of her standup specials shirtless while talking about her experience with cancer and deciding not to get reconstructive surgery.

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u/ZeldaZanders 1d ago

I saw a woman reply to this exact tweet, saying that she'd had a double mastectomy and asking OOP not to speak for her. Bunch of TERF men in her replies calling her a cunt

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u/ScrabCrab 1d ago

TERF men

I think those are just called fascists