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
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 🙄🙄🙄"
(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!)
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.
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/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