Cop a Feel - new advert

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"Hey guys and gals, and non binary pals..... remember to check your chest"

If you can't manage to say the word BREAST, when you are urging women to check their breasts, then quite frankly, you can Fuck Off.

New radio advert - GAH.

Because its BREAST cancer.....affecting breast tissue

I suppose women who have had mastetomies due to cancer would have regular follow up scans too.

Lifetime risk of breast cancer for a man is less than 0.1%. This campaign isn't aimed at men, and doesn't need to include them. There wouldn't be a campaign at all if women had such a low risk too.

They call it breast cancer. Not chest cancer. Even in men.

Ooh yes. Good point. Mum had breast cancer in the side of her mastectomy. Like 25 years later.

1 in 1000 is higher than expected

They definitely don’t. I have had two mastectomies due to cancer and there’s no follow-up at all, let alone scans.

I have had a double mastectomy. I check my chest.
Before I had my surgery I used to check my wider chest area, not just my actual breasts.
As a result I found the lump that would have otherwise been missed.
The wording "chest" is fine as far as I'm concerned.

Edited to add.... and no, you don't get follow up scans following a mastectomy. You are just advised to check your CHEST for changes.

Just check you boobs. Chest. Pecks. Whatever. It’s just a tag line. I’ve had breast cancer. It’s shit. Stop getting triggered by a campaign to help EVERYONE. YABU.

Maybe we need to start saying check the area surrounding your nipples, I fully agree that this obsession with having to non feminise things because it may offend people needs to stop, though I’d also agree that encouraging everyone to check for potential signs of breast cancer is far more important than worrying about what they are called

I know my breasts are on my chest so this works for me.

I understand you need to be specially told it's the bits that wobble in your bra rather than the front of your body above your stomach.

It’s alliteration duh!

and men don’t refer to theirs as breasts do they?

Christ on a bike

From CoppaFeel:
“Many of the signs of breast cancer are changes you would only notice by seeing how your chest looks. . We recommend coppin’ a feel AND taking a look during your checks.
The area that can be affected by breast cancer reaches all the way up to your collarbones and underneath your armpits. Check this whole area each time. This is the same for all genders.”

https://coppafeel.org/breast-cancer-info-and-advice/how-do-i-check/#:~:text=Many%20of%20the%20signs%20of,this%20whole%20area%20each%20time.

Does it really say "Cop a feel?" That would be the objectionable part for me!

Sounds like a licence to er, check someone else's breasts without their permission.

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.

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

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

Yo ho ho me hearties!!

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.

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.

Absolutely, but everyone should be encouraged to check.

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.

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

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.

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).

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.