There, I said it!

[SunflowerP]

Dear Sealed With A Kiss Designs plus-size clothing, and everybody else who's hopped on board the "Save the Tatas" thing:

It's not about how awful it is for women to lose their boobies. It's about how awful it is for women (and men, and people who are neither, because breast cancer isn't restricted to any one gender or morphological/genetic sex) to LOSE THEIR LIVES. Campaigns like this like to claim they're about concern for women's health, but "has intact breasts" is not the primary measure of health for people socially classed as women, and these people are PEOPLE, not life-support systems for sets of tits.

Also, "tatas"? Y'know, one of the reasons it's called "breast cancer awareness" is that, back when it began, a big part of the problem was that society was prudish about talking about breasts, which made it hard to talk about breast cancer. When you won't say "breast", and have to talk about "tatas" - that means it's still hard to talk about breast cancer.

My MIL didn't lose her "tatas". She lost her breasts. And then she lost her life. So let's fucking talk about that, instead of tippy-toeing around it with tee-hee euphemisms.

with rage,
Sunflower



There, I fucking said it. How many times does it need to be said??

[Morag]

Dear Sealed With A Kiss Designs plus-size clothing, and everybody else who's hopped on board the "Save the Tatas" thing:

It's not about how awful it is for women to lose their boobies. It's about how awful it is for women (and men, and people who are neither, because breast cancer isn't restricted to any one gender or morphological/genetic sex) to LOSE THEIR LIVES. Campaigns like this like to claim they're about concern for women's health, but "has intact breasts" is not the primary measure of health for people socially classed as women, and these people are PEOPLE, not life-support systems for sets of tits.

Also, "tatas"? Y'know, one of the reasons it's called "breast cancer awareness" is that, back when it began, a big part of the problem was that society was prudish about talking about breasts, which made it hard to talk about breast cancer. When you won't say "breast", and have to talk about "tatas" - that means it's still hard to talk about breast cancer.

My MIL didn't lose her "tatas". She lost her breasts. And then she lost her life. So let's fucking talk about that, instead of tippy-toeing around it with tee-hee euphemisms.

with rage,
Sunflower

There, I fucking said it. How many times does it need to be said??

*applauds*

Brava!

[veggiewolf]

Dear Sealed With A Kiss Designs plus-size clothing, and everybody else who's hopped on board the "Save the Tatas" thing:

It's not about how awful it is for women to lose their boobies. It's about how awful it is for women (and men, and people who are neither, because breast cancer isn't restricted to any one gender or morphological/genetic sex) to LOSE THEIR LIVES. Campaigns like this like to claim they're about concern for women's health, but "has intact breasts" is not the primary measure of health for people socially classed as women, and these people are PEOPLE, not life-support systems for sets of tits.

Also, "tatas"? Y'know, one of the reasons it's called "breast cancer awareness" is that, back when it began, a big part of the problem was that society was prudish about talking about breasts, which made it hard to talk about breast cancer. When you won't say "breast", and have to talk about "tatas" - that means it's still hard to talk about breast cancer.

My MIL didn't lose her "tatas". She lost her breasts. And then she lost her life. So let's fucking talk about that, instead of tippy-toeing around it with tee-hee euphemisms.

with rage,
Sunflower

There, I fucking said it. How many times does it need to be said??

*applauds Sunflower* Apparently, we need to keep saying it over and over. I have a related rant about people who won't get colonoscopies despite the fact that colon cancer is easily treated when caught early.

Dear Idiots,

No longer will you get "idiot compassion" from me, folks. I'm telling it like it is.

TIFSI

[SatSekhem]

*applauds Sunflower* Apparently, we need to keep saying it over and over. I have a related rant about people who won't get colonoscopies despite the fact that colon cancer is easily treated when caught early.

Dear Idiots,

No longer will you get "idiot compassion" from me, folks. I'm telling it like it is.

TIFSI

Dear Back,
I don't know what your major malfunction is but this random bouts of pain if I move "just so" is getting old.
TISI

[Owl]

Dear Back,
I don't know what your major malfunction is but this random bouts of pain if I move "just so" is getting old.
TISI

Dear nursing home where my mother is:
She is on a very limited income and I am not going to pick up the slack. So if medicare doesn't cover it, find something they do cover to replace it. Do NOT let her build up a several hundred dollar bill for cream to rub on her butt at 20 bucks an effing tube when medicare would cover desitin!

[stephyjh]

Dear Sealed With A Kiss Designs plus-size clothing, and everybody else who's hopped on board the "Save the Tatas" thing:

It's not about how awful it is for women to lose their boobies. It's about how awful it is for women (and men, and people who are neither, because breast cancer isn't restricted to any one gender or morphological/genetic sex) to LOSE THEIR LIVES. Campaigns like this like to claim they're about concern for women's health, but "has intact breasts" is not the primary measure of health for people socially classed as women, and these people are PEOPLE, not life-support systems for sets of tits.

Also, "tatas"? Y'know, one of the reasons it's called "breast cancer awareness" is that, back when it began, a big part of the problem was that society was prudish about talking about breasts, which made it hard to talk about breast cancer. When you won't say "breast", and have to talk about "tatas" - that means it's still hard to talk about breast cancer.

My MIL didn't lose her "tatas". She lost her breasts. And then she lost her life. So let's fucking talk about that, instead of tippy-toeing around it with tee-hee euphemisms.

with rage,
Sunflower

There, I fucking said it. How many times does it need to be said??

YES! YES! THIS! I get looked at as if I had three heads when I say stuff like this, but this is EXACTLY my issue with the whole "Save the tatas," "I <3 Boobies," "Feel a Boob--Save a Life," etc., nonsense. People. Are. Dying. And no one seems to be able to think of a better way to talk about it than in immature bullshit euphemisms and lukewarm sexualization of a deadly disease? GRRRRRR!

[Jubes]

Dear Children:

Fist fights will now only happen AFTER coffee has been consumed! KTHANKS!

TISI.

[PlaceboArtist]

Dear S,
M showed me this chatlog on skype:

SP: i dont want contacnt with the world
i wanna like cut off from everyone[list of family and friends including me and M]

MB: not [boyfriend]?

SP: i can lie there with [boyfriend] and feel peaceful
feel protected


You've known him a few weeks. We've known you about a year, and supported you through the crises. We don't like to feel we've been 'cut off' and discarded in favour of him. I wish I could tell you this to your face.

TISI

[SatSekhem]

Dear S,
M showed me this chatlog on skype:

SP: i dont want contacnt with the world
i wanna like cut off from everyone[list of family and friends including me and M]

MB: not [boyfriend]?

SP: i can lie there with [boyfriend] and feel peaceful
feel protected


You've known him a few weeks. We've known you about a year, and supported you through the crises. We don't like to feel we've been 'cut off' and discarded in favour of him. I wish I could tell you this to your face.

TISI

(((PlaceboArtist)))

[stephyjh]

(((PlaceboArtist)))

Dear fucknut and friends,
Yesterday was the only day this week that I could have slept in, between my two jobs. Today, between the two, I have a 13-hour workday, plus my homework. Fucknut had to have his kid to school by 7AM; I had to leave for work by 8. So there is absolutely no excuse for the there of you to be getting high in the kitchen, knowing I'm not OK with the drugs and had asked you repeatedly not to bring marijuana in the house, and being loud until 3AM, particularly when I had been in bed since midnight. There was no reason for you to eat all my strawberries and leave me just the picked over ones in the bottom of the container. No reason to change my Netflix queue. This is ridiculous. STOP IT NOW!

TISI