the one significant difference being it is possible for a girl to recover from attempt to emulate an anorexic model.....

It’s normalising a serious mental health issue. It’s akin to using a severely anorexic model. There is no difference

This crosses a line😡
How the hell can people excuse and justify this? It's the hight of manipulative and abusive marketing. It's too early to write anything more articulate but the ad is below the belt and so voyeuristic in nature. Most of us won't be able to boycott Burberry but I hope that some celebrities will. FFS. This is sick 😢

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11679351/Burberry-ad-featuring-model-double-mastectomy-sparks-outrage.html

A pity after the rather marvellous and very masculine Hero ad with Adam Driver, where he morphs with the horse to become a centaur

Not clear what you mean.

Similar surgery due to cancer or other conditions?

Breasts removed due to being trans?

I think context is needed here.

Another effect of mastectomy, most surgery in fact, is that the area will be numb for a long time and sometimes forever. It's horrible.
I was offered a cosmetic mastectomy on the NHS because I'd had one breast removed due to cancer and did not opt for reconstruction. However, I was then so unbalanced and only comfortable one side or the other, I was offered another mastectomy. I decided against. Also, my scar on the one that was removed, does not look like the ones you see in "top surgery" promotion. It is not flat at all which I don't care about, but it probably wouldn't meet the fantasies of the sex changers

@weebarra wheni go flat I’m thinking of getting a tattoo also.

I don’t mind being flat, but yes it’s absolutely not a lifestyle choice, it was this or possibly lose my life.

@Booblessbeauty I’ve also had a mastectomy and find the message it’s not a big deal affronting. I’m sorry you’ve had such bad after effects. My implant is crap and rests on a muscle so aches and one day I will get rid and go flat, but apart from that I’ve been lucky as I have no pain and no restriction of movement, just wanted to add that in case anyone reading is due to have this op (for cancer ). The idea this operation is something to be celebrated is pretty awful.

mrsskylerwhite - no, I know what you mean but I'd still prefer to have my breasts.
I certainly wouldn't recommend a bilateral mastectomy as a fashion choice. For us, it was lose the boobs or die.
I've come to terms with my new body and have a gorgeous tattoo over my scars.

I'm almost as traumatised by the suedehead haircut as the mastectomy. The skinheads were racist thugs.

I'm reminded of the outrage about the noose hoodie, or the latest givenchy necklace, that's a noose. High fashion loves to be edgy. But it often misses the point. Nooses=lynchings for a large part of human history and aren't an appropriate fashion accessory.

The same can be said for this campaign. This is slightly more nuanced though, because of you're anti it, you can be called a bigot.

But I'm guessing for the marketing team and the brand as long as people are talking about it, they're winning, no matter the distress or offence caused to anyone.

Beowulfa · Today 08:20
“Fabulous message Booblessbeauty.“

Hmmm. I don’t know. I don’t consider myself hideous or disfigured after my cancer treatment. It is what it is, nothing to feel ashamed of.

I've complained to the ASA.

For everyone spending 10 minutes writing a diatribe on here, spend another five minutes making an effective complaint:

www.asa.org.uk/make-a-complaint.html

Simple online form that gives you plenty of space to have your say.

Yeah it's still there

www.instagram.com/p/CnxDylDj6-E/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

😁

These women have no concept of what they are doing to themselves.

I've got my first breast screening appointment soon, yay the joys of being 50.

The booklet that comes with it made me feel ill reading about masectomies.

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😁

View my post as a rhetorical question :)

It's also about inclusivity it shows people can be beautiful without breasts. I like the fact the scars haven't been covered, cosmetic breast removal is very very different to mastectomy done for cancer removal and has comparatively fewer side effects as you aren't taking as much tissue. People have had cosmetic breast surgery for years I would love to have mine reduced from a C cup to an A cup once I've lost the amount of weight I want to lose.

The scars are part of the draw. It’s self harm.

@weebarra 💐

I suggest you read the books ‘Irreversible Damage’ by Abigail Shier and Trans by Helen Joyce.

or the many threads on this board. This is a good place to start.

I can’t see the ad at all now, has it been removed from their insta?

Utterly vile . Exploiting the mental health issues of teenage girls to sell clothes. The mutilation of healthy breasts ! Absolutely disgusting,evil b*stards!
Complaint is going in! I am so sorry@Booblessbeauty 💐

You would like young females choosing to remove their breasts for cosmetic reasons to be ‘normalised’?

You want extreme cosmetic surgeries normalised and glamorised?

You believe leveraging these young females and their cosmetic surgeries will benefit other women who have had double mastectomies?

Well, at least you are honest.