Can you believe that someone would make something up like this?

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www.mumsnet.com/Talk/breast_and_bottle_feeding/675145-BF-39-didn-39-t-work-out-39-what-does?msgid=13 867137

See most recent posts. I hope I am wrong about this, as I feel sick that someone could troll in this way.

I dunno; I understand the anger, but why risk hurting someone who has even more reason to be sensitive than you, IYSWIM? So many women are on Mumsnet and many, many will have suffered from serious sexual assaults. Just seems like an unfortunate choice of outlandish claim, just because it isn't completely outlandish. A rapist in my home town did exactly that a few years ago.

Qally, you're right: sexual assaults and sustained sexual abuse involving the breasts are not that uncommon, and as a breastfeeding counsellor I have come across a small handful of women for whom memories of this made the thought of breastfeeding very difficult indeed (though none where serious injury made it impossible). There are also a few cases in the literature. So I probably was disposed to believe her for that reason.

I certainly read it as true and thought it was pretty horrific! I find it shocking that someone would make something like that up or even say it in a sarcastic way - it's a bit tactless tbh.

As a survivor myself I tend to always believe women who say they have experienced a sexual assaul I dt soidn't read it as sarcastic. Shocked that someone would use that to make a point.

I read it as a claim that it had happened to her. If it was just an example to make a point it was awfully tasteless and insensitive and should be removed.

I think if it was being sarcastic it was very niave to think it would be a good way to explain something and why use that, why not say lost in an accident?

oh, God, NAB, in the middle of all this you have made me .

Losing one's nips in an accident sounds , I dunno, sorta careless somehow!

LOL

Not quite what I meant, oh shit I have accidently lost my nipples in M&S., I was thinking burnt off or something.

Bloody hell....Frog, you've made me now, with the 'pointless' thing

But it is possible that the explanation that she has given that her cousin wrote it is true isn't it? shouldn't we give people the benefit of the doubt?

It is possible Nettee but extremely unlikely, as soon as I have any visitors to the house if I am MNing I hit the off button straight away. Dh is always wondering why there are messages saying that I haven't shut down correctly. Oh the shame of being caught MNing.

It's an obvious lie.

Jojo is a regular poster, well she has lots of posts to her name. most of them look at a glance to be sensib;e and considered and honest.

I'm not sure what the exact reason is for the post below, which is obviously not true for Jojo herself, if it was her cousin posting then that's awfully sad and we should be sympathetic towards the poor woman.

If not then I can't really imagine why she would have posted it.

"Hi, cuz, what'ya doing?"

"Oh, I'm on this internet webby thing - mumsnet, where you share your experiences 'n' stuff..."

"Mmmm...can I see? "

"Yes, take a look....I'm jojoisamum, and I post here from time to time, you know, about when the baby couldn't breastfeed and so on...."

"Hm....looks like some people are saying that if you formula feed your baby's gonna get fat or spotty, is that right?"

"Well, it's daft, 'cos some of us haven't got a choice. I mean, remember what happened to you, with you know, your nipples...."

"Yeah - here, let me tell the world about that one and I'll just post here, shall I, in this white box [type type type type type} Now what?"

"Just click on post message....that's it."

'But cuz, that looks as if it is you who had the sexual assault...."

"I know, but no one will notice."

snort tiktok at your post

And Fwiw I think people should refrain from making crass jokes about it until we actually find out the truth - which we may not. How would it feel to have actually been through something like that and have it taken the piss out of like this?

In this instance, above many others, I think we need to give the benefit of the doubt - shocking though the story is.

I love your nickname btw- helenburns

And why would anyone say that kind of thing, anyway, unless it were true? It doesn't exactly prove a point does it - I mean it's not a common experience.

Thanks Herc.

or are you being sarky? Not sure if I get it?

I believe it is a quite common in war time for soldiers to do this to enemy civilians especially in past times.

No! It's the girl from Jane Eyre isn't it??

really?