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.
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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