Breast Ambassadors

I seem to be getting a lot of our ideas from Calendar Girl lately. I guess, that's just the way it goes.

In her quest to promote breast health (which includes emotional health of breasts), Calendar Girl has developed the concept of Breast Ambassador. I was honoured to be appointed to this post some time ago.

Here are some thoughts from Denise on her recent appointment as a Breast Ambasador:

Big deal number one - Women have to stop hating their breasts or being ashamed of their breasts or embarrassed by their breasts. We need to stop apologizing for having large ones or small ones or nursing ones or non-nursing ones or scarred ones or sagging ones.

Big deal number two - We also need to make sure we aren't giving men, other women and the media the power to use our breasts against us or against other women.

Big deal number three - We need to stop letting the media (and charities) scare us about breast cancer. Yes, women get breast cancer. Yes, some of them do die from breast cancer. Most do not die. Yet we, as a gender, are more frightened of a cancer that probably isn't going to kill us than we are of a cancer or illness that probably will. We're terrified of chemo or masectomy, lumpectomy and even the mamogram. Some of us are even afraid to do a self exam because we might find a lump and then what... I don't think most of us are really afraid of dying from breast cancer. I think most of us are afraid that may lose our breasts or have disfigured breasts.

From a male point of view, I would add:

Big Deal Number Four: Women have breasts. Let's accept it. Enjoy them. Enjoy the womanness they embody. But let's also respect them and, more particularly their owners.

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