The Breast Book

It's such a shame that an opportunity to inform girls about the dangers of breast binding was ignored.

Either way thank you for replying to me VodkaRevelation - just blanking posters who don't post much is very off putting and why a lot of people hide this board!

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VodkaRevelation I'm sure I've read on here about posters whose own children are "woke" and have swallowed the boys can be girls and girls can be boys message whole despite being brought up with the clear message that there are no such thing as boy's toys/ clothes/ hobbies/ jobs etc etc.

Children and teens are utterly comfortable with cognitive dissonance (sometimes they're exposed to trans ideology before they've fully stopped believing in father Christmas, sometimes one influence is telling them god/ Jesus/ heaven and hell are real and an equally trusted one telling them the opposite...) and sometimes swallow to utterly contradictory realities (home reality and worldview v school or a youtubers reality and worldview) without questioning or registering the clash.

I don't think you can rely on gender critical home environment and no gender stereotypes at home, and waiting til they're mid teens to debate complex and controversial topics means they have already been indoctrinated sometimes, and take another decade to think critically about what they've accepted as a priori because peers/ school/ social media are all drip feeding a world view.

Take me back to a world where we discuss whether girls should start removing body hair at puberty not whether they should be removing body parts.

It is so sad that a breasfeeding proponent is pushing this abuse onto young children. What has happened to people?

It's a shame as Pinter and Martin are an otherwise brilliant publishing company.

Okay: from what I can see it's a small independent publisher so a few more emails may make them less glib about it.

Tomorrow morning please, please post this in one of the main sections of MN so that it gets some traction. We can head this thing off by doing small things — just ten minutes of your time and my time and together we get things moving.

From amazon

About the Author
Emma Pickett has spent her career talking to young people about puberty, listening to their stories, and immersed in the world of breastfeeding support. As a Deputy Head and Year 6 teacher in inner London, she taught sex and relationships education for over a decade before having her own children. When she realised how many new mums struggled with breastfeeding, it led to a career change and Emma qualified as a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor with the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers before going on to qualify as a lactation consultant. She has supported new families in North London for 10 years and answers calls on the National Breastfeeding Helpline. Her children are now 10 and 14. She is currently chair of the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers, a charity established in 1979 training breastfeeding support volunteers and health professionals. In 2016 she published You've Got it In You: A Positive Guide to Breastfeeding, followed in 2019 by The Breast Book. Her website is here Twitter: @makesmilk Instagram: @emmapickettibclc

Oh god I despair for our young girls. Including my own DD.

No, I do NOT want a book that normalises a double mastectomy on healthy tissue for cosmetic reasons. They make it sound like a fucking haircut.

Thank you that.

I've just emailed the publisher.

Name changed obs

My contribution:

twitter.com/elfie41767774/status/1095626988369469441?s=21

Okay, we need to create a campaign around this book. Well done: you've given us another tangible, real-world focus to use to draw attention to the nightmare scenario that's being promoted to our already confused children.

Let's take it up with the publishers:

Pinter & Martin Ltd
6 Effra Parade
London
SW2 1PS
United Kingdom
T. 020 7737 6868
Registered in England No 03367702
VAT Reg No. GB 702 0053 08

email us at [email protected]. We will usually respond to general enquiry emails within 24 hours, but often a lot sooner.

You can also contact us via Facebook or Twitter.

Then let's take it up with Amazon and any bookseller that sells it. If I come across it in any local bookshops I'm happy to take it to the counter and make a lot of noise in front of other customers about why I think it's appalling.

Let's ask for a large warning sticker to be placed on the front of it, so that any adults buying it for a girl they know are completely aware that it has a whole section encouraging mastectomy for girls who feel they can't perform/ don't want to perform 'girl' to current standards.

OP, would you make a start by posting your OP, with pix, in the main section of Mumsnet or AIBU: this is the only place I post so I don't know what would work best. Ask those women to contact the publisher/ Amazon too.

I'm also going to post the contact details of the publisher and Amazon on a couple of other general interest messageboards I participate in — messageboards full of ordinary mums and dads and grans and grandpas who would be horrified to think that their girls are being told that if they like doing boyish things and they don't feel they fit in with the girly girls it's fine to have their breasts cut off so that they can pretend to be boys.

I'll do it in the next two hours. Is there anyone out there who'll join me?

That is shocking. I can't believe the publisher would dare to produce a children's book minimising healthy breast removal.
Absolutely sick.

It blithely mentions breast binding but does it talk about the risks associated with it?

*you’re!

That’s so sad. So irresponsible in a book aimed at young girls who are all, at some stage, going to feel uncomfortable about their bodies. Write a chapter about how normal that is when our bodies are changing-don’t suggest it’s a problem that needs to be fixed with bloody surgery. Makes me so cross.

blueskies, I see what your saying but anyone who has an issue with the content of that chapter is likely to be doing everything they can to address gender stereotyping when it comes up and will likely be instilling counter views in their children as they grow.

Does it include a section on breast cancer @MilkSpill?

This is so sad.

Talk about breast cancer but not body modification ffs.

Does it include breast ironing? Fucking doubt it.

Iamtherforeidontidentify That is what is so crazy....

Children are exposed to trans thinking and gender stereotyping/ the equation of sex with gender (if only tangentially at first/ mostly) at school and in the media from younger than we like to think and if not discussed openly with an adult capable of critical thinking it seeps unexamined into their world view.

Does nobody else think picking this apart thoughtfully as part of reading the book together could be a countermeasure?