Cop a Feel - new advert

I don’t mind the guys, gals, non binary pals part I DO mind they don’t say breast. It’s the breast we need to check, not the chest.

Men get breast cancer in their breast tissue you lemon !!!

I’ve never heard the saying gals and guys, it’s always guys and gals surely? A bit like salt and pepper or left and right.

Yes, breast tissue goes higher and wider than most people realise

But when they won't say BREAST tissue, they are not adequately communicating that.

That’s really interesting, I had no idea. For me, saying check your chest is much clearer in that respect then. In my head, checking your breast would be just the protruding bit. Mine don’t reach to my armpits!

Very much in the minority by the sounds of it, but I do say chest interchangeably with breast. I’m not sure I’ve ever called mine breasts. Boobs yes, chest yes (when in more polite company!).

I see they put 'guys' before 'gals', which is surely wrong way round, given the stats.

The version of the advert I heard says "breasts, chest and pecs'. So covering all bases there.

I was clearly told to check my chest after having breast cancer - because you can get breast cancer in your skin, your pectoral muscles, your sternum, your ribs, your lymph nodes, your chest wall etc. That is where mine was - the skin and chest wall. I found it.

Isn’t it just the word lends itself to being paired with “check” not sure why you think it runs deeper than that, and why you care?

This. 'Chest' is ridiculous, it refers fo a large area with different anatomical structures. Breast is fine.

As an aside I hate the name 'cop a feel' I understand the woman who started it has sadly died so no disrespect but cop a feel sounds so inappropriate.

Sure,

And they also both have chests: ribs, intercostal muscles, lungs etc...

Chest health is very important: see your GP if you have a persistent cough!

Breast checks are NOT chest checks! Different part of the body. Adjacent maybe, but VERY different

I agree, I really dislike that language too, it's like a Carry On film. A woman would never say "cop a feel." It's gross!
I don't think any man would check his breast tissue as a result of a radio ad, even if it was clearly explained.

The chest is a completely different part of the anatomy. If you were 'checking your chest' you would be ensuring that your breathing is okay, no wheezing, no coughing up sputum, no difficulties getting a breath, including on exertion and no continuous cough.

If you were checking the area on the outside of the chest that would be checking for rashes, inflammation, no sucking in of the area around the ribs, no deformities, no dodgy moles on the skin.

The breasts are a totally different thing, different tissue, different functions, different anatomy.

We're back to the 'front hole' language aren't we? I thought all this had been sorted out.

Wtf do they call the ovaries? Internalised golf balls? Spherical blobules? Egg boxes?

The Pouch of Douglas is a bloody handbag no doubt 🙄

It's really awful. I'm surprised that charities don't have a 'spread your legs' campaign for cervical smears. I wonder what they'd come up with for prostate checks (although I have to think they'd be less offensive to men).

When the ghastly Cop A Feel campaign appeared I wrote to them, an actual letter telling them that a woman cannot cop a feel of her own breasts. This is something done to her against her will by blokes, who think it's a splendid idea. I got no reply but I suppose we should all be glad that it didn't occur to them to call their campaign Touch Them Up.

Why do you call it breast cancer? Wouldn’t chest cancer be more accurate by that logic. And why did you say you had a breast issue - you had a chest issue.

Further question, how should I or anyone else differentiate between chest pain and breast pain (very different indicators!) or a chest infection and an infection in my breast? The questions apply to anyone who have chest/breasts/pecs (to quote a PP who is actually suggesting inclusive wording).

I don't know why charities choose such sleazy taglines. It minimises the issue, and makes a mockery out of it.

I don't want someone to 'cop a feel', and that phrase has negative associations for me as a thing that sleazy, misogynistic men say, so it's massively off-putting.

It's in their breast tissue. A good friend eventually died from it. He had no issue with calling it breast cancer.

When the ghastly Cop A Feel came into being I wrote to them and told them 'copping a feel' is done to women and girls by men and boys and it is groping them against their will. An example would be when you think they wanted a hug, but no, they copped a feel. A woman cannot Cop A Feel of her own breasts. I am only glad they didn't call their campaign Touch Them Up.

Absolutely, but everyone should be encouraged to check.

Then it would be better to say check your breasts. Breast has a long history as a unisex word (breast plate) so just pointing out men also have breast tissue would do. Using a word for something else (chest isnt the same as breast tissue) is confusing.

If someone identifies as "non binary".... that is, they dont feel they fit the stereotypical masculine/feminine associated with their sex, (what used to be called androgynous), they are still biologically either male or female.

I checked my chest and it’s full of gold dubloons…

Yo ho ho me hearties!!

It’s CoppaFeel, set up by a very young woman. She died of breast cancer in the last couple of years.

No, that’s far too vague. Breast tissue goes right up close to your collar bone and into your armpits. I’ve had breast cancer three times and each time it was invisible on mammogram, even though the tumours were large. It often can’t be felt- again, even if the tumours are large. But do what you can and flag anything that is unusual, and try to insist they take it seriously. I had two breast consultants say there was nothing wrong with me on two of my diagnoses.