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Feminism: chat

AIBU: Women's Rights edition!

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SoMentallyDrained · 04/11/2024 15:48

I've never posted here before so apologies if it's in the wrong place. I'm in a bit of a moral dilemma and would appreciate opinions.

I have done a lot of volunteering for St John Ambulance in the past. I stopped for a while due to bereavement. I thought today I would register again. On the front page of the website is an article about the 'CPR Bra'. The article says that women are less likely than men to receive CPR in public than men due to issues with people not wanting to expose/touch their breasts.
I thought this was very interesting and read on. Later in the article, there are instructions on how to perform CPR on 'a person with breasts'.

If I'm honest it's really put me off, why not use the word woman as they have throughout the article?

Writing this has made me feel that I'm being petty actually...

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ExtraordinaryMachine1 · 07/11/2024 17:01

Yes, I quite understand where you're coming from. Similar debacle in Scouting and Guiding puts me right off volunteering too: I'd be more than happy to do some tedious thankless admin for my local groups. But I don't want to go anywhere near being responsible for risk assessments while the gender ideology saga rumbles on.
Do you think, though, that the situation you give here could be one argument for talking about "women and people with breasts"? I would imagine that doing chest compressions for an overweight man with moobs might be pretty awkward. But then they wouldn't be wearing an underwired bra, and probably that would be better addressed in talking about CPR for overweight people more generally - I wouldn't know, but imagine that it's rather more difficult? Dunno though, I can see why it put you off - it would put me off too, if we can't be honest about things that matter.

Catsmere · 08/12/2024 19:32

Not remotely petty.

They don't even see the irony that men who parade their fetishes are likely to be delighted to expose their "breasts" in public, and women who claim to be men may be in denial of having breasts at all (see: "chestfeeding") even if they haven't had mastectomies.

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