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Dr Martens Queer Joy

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Potaytoe5 · 02/08/2023 18:05

Sorry if there's already a thread about it, I couldn't find it!
Dr Martens boots showing a trans man with scars from mactectomy.
Apparently not mass produced, but one off. But why...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/01/dr-martens-queer-joy-boot-trans-mastectomy-scars/#Echobox=1690913440

Interestingly, on fb comments are rather supportive so far.

Dr Martens’ ‘queer joy’ boot features trans person with ‘mastectomy scars’

Rainbow-coloured footwear sparks backlash with some accusing shoe brand of promoting ‘grotesque’ ideology

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/01/dr-martens-queer-joy-boot-trans-mastectomy-scars#Echobox=1690913440

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OldCrone · 04/08/2023 08:24

OwningAllMyMistakes · 04/08/2023 03:09

There may well be but it’s their body and not yours.

Are you absolutely sure that this hasn't been done to the daughter/granddaughter/niece of any of the women on here? I'm pretty sure it has.

But even those who don't have a young relative caught up in this think that what has happened to girls and young women like Chloe Cole, Keira Bell and Sinead Watson is heartbreaking.

You may care about no one but yourself, but some of us do care about what is happening to girls and young women. Even those we don't know.

PriOn1 · 04/08/2023 08:14

OwningAllMyMistakes · 04/08/2023 03:09

There may well be but it’s their body and not yours.

Oh dear. Annoyed you made yourself look foolish?

This was your post:

Who’s just cutting off their breasts ? Have you seen this for yourself ?
or are you just reporting what you think rather than what has actually happened ?

There is extensive evidence showing that girls as young as twelve have had their breasts amputated. So I’m not sure if you are properly ignorant or attempting (and failing) to cast doubt on something so easily proven.

“It’s their body” is not an appropriate response to the question of whether it can ever be ethical to carry out elective plastic surgery on children’s perfectly normal, healthy bodies, on the grounds that they are suffering from mental health problems.

Croneofakind · 04/08/2023 08:04

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 07:20

Evil Agenda really it’s not isis or Putins campaign of war in Ukraine or any other threat to humanity is it ? It’s just your opinion hardly evil .

Women of Mumsnet! We have a man here to tell us that fussing over vulnerable children is less important than Putin/Isis OH LOOK A SQUIRREL!

StephanieSuperpowers · 04/08/2023 06:07

OwningAllMyMistakes · 04/08/2023 03:09

There may well be but it’s their body and not yours.

And this is why sane people and trans activists can't really have a conversation. Trans activists don't appear able to follow any train of thought.

PaterPower · 04/08/2023 05:37

OwningAllMyMistakes · 04/08/2023 03:09

There may well be but it’s their body and not yours.

It’s an anorexic’s body too, but I assume you wouldn’t support an organisation promoting gastric bands to those with an eating disorder?

Celebrating butchery as the way to ‘treat’ a usually (given space and appropriate mental health support) temporary unhappiness with the effects of puberty is… morally dubious at best.

Lifetime scarring, loss of sensation, inability to breast feed later in life and introducing infection risks for a medically unnecessary procedure - none of these are a (mentally healthy) source of ‘joy.’

Meadowfly · 04/08/2023 05:36

All I know is that my dc won’t wear their expensive dms any more as only the ‘pronoun kids’ wear them now.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 04/08/2023 05:17

A child of 17 or under is not old enough to grasp the full implications of any of this so called gender affirming medical treatment. Many teens are convinced they won't want to have children, so breastfeeding seems like an irrelevance, but most women do eventually want to have children. Not all will choose to breastfeed but these children won't have the option.They are sold a view that a double mastectomy is 'top surgery', cutesy euphemism, and that having this healthy tissue removed is like having a skin tag removed. They don't understand about the possible complications and lifelong damage that may ensue.

They're too young to get a tattoo but can consent to this? The evidence base that it will improve their mental health is simply not there. Such evidence as we do have suggests the contrary. As far as I am concerned it is like affirming a child with an eating disorder and allowing her to starve herself.

OwningAllMyMistakes · 04/08/2023 03:09

BlueIbex · 03/08/2023 08:15

You're denying that double mastectomies are happening?

There may well be but it’s their body and not yours.

PatatiPatatras · 03/08/2023 20:53

Arguing that boobs are not being lobbed off on a thread with artwork portraying yeeted teets. 😂

Backstreets · 03/08/2023 09:50

“Teet yeeting” that should be, don’t blame auto correct for refusing that one.

Backstreets · 03/08/2023 09:50

Could also Google dr Sidhbh Gallagher. She advertises for her “test yeeting” practice on tiktok, targeting teen girls. Some cross continents to get botched by the Irish Butcher.

OldCrone · 03/08/2023 09:45

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 08:08

Who’s just cutting off their breasts ? Have you seen this for yourself ?
or are you just reporting what you think rather than what has actually happened ?

Google Chloe Cole. She (like a lot of other teenage girls in the US) had a double mastectomy at 15 because she wanted to be a boy.

PriOn1 · 03/08/2023 09:16

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 08:08

Who’s just cutting off their breasts ? Have you seen this for yourself ?
or are you just reporting what you think rather than what has actually happened ?

What do you think that image represents with its stitch lines where the breasts have been removed?

Yusay · 03/08/2023 09:14

🤢

BlueIbex · 03/08/2023 08:15

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 08:08

Who’s just cutting off their breasts ? Have you seen this for yourself ?
or are you just reporting what you think rather than what has actually happened ?

You're denying that double mastectomies are happening?

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 08:08

PriOn1 · 03/08/2023 07:45

Sterilizing children and pushing the idea that girls distressed by their breasts can just cut them off?

You don’t think that’s evil?

Who’s just cutting off their breasts ? Have you seen this for yourself ?
or are you just reporting what you think rather than what has actually happened ?

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 08:06

BabyStopCryin · 03/08/2023 07:30

They are pushing the cutesy fantasy that humans can change sex and that radical surgery and lifelong medication is somehow attractive and fun! A generation of youth being egged on to damage their bodies and minds and shorten their life. Yes this is evil. Because at the back of all this is money.

In your opinion only.
Evil is the Taliban in Afghanistan removing and denying woman’s rights and freedom of education and freedom.
and the freedom to have a different point of view.

PriOn1 · 03/08/2023 07:45

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 07:20

Evil Agenda really it’s not isis or Putins campaign of war in Ukraine or any other threat to humanity is it ? It’s just your opinion hardly evil .

Sterilizing children and pushing the idea that girls distressed by their breasts can just cut them off?

You don’t think that’s evil?

BabyStopCryin · 03/08/2023 07:30

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 07:20

Evil Agenda really it’s not isis or Putins campaign of war in Ukraine or any other threat to humanity is it ? It’s just your opinion hardly evil .

They are pushing the cutesy fantasy that humans can change sex and that radical surgery and lifelong medication is somehow attractive and fun! A generation of youth being egged on to damage their bodies and minds and shorten their life. Yes this is evil. Because at the back of all this is money.

Backstreets · 03/08/2023 07:23

hideous art style. They’re getting no more of my money (haven’t since they moved production out of uk, anyway)

OwningAllMyMistakes · 03/08/2023 07:20

Dombasle · 02/08/2023 20:06

I boycotted them awhile back. Any of these companies that push an evil agenda will not be receiving money from me.

Evil Agenda really it’s not isis or Putins campaign of war in Ukraine or any other threat to humanity is it ? It’s just your opinion hardly evil .

AgathaX · 02/08/2023 21:06

I just don’t understand why so many companies are desperate to associate serious unnecessary- and often later regretted - surgery with joy. Especially to vulnerable teens who may be looking for this elusive ‘joy’

Exactly this. WTF are they thinking? It's all so bloody sinister.

BabyStopCryin · 02/08/2023 21:00

Money. Bullies ok boards. Trying to make stonewall targets/points.

Pontiouspilate · 02/08/2023 20:47

I just don’t understand why so many companies are desperate to associate serious unnecessary- and often later regretted - surgery with joy. Especially to vulnerable teens who may be looking for this elusive ‘joy’.

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