"It's binding or suicide": New York Times article on chest binders

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Young women share their experience of using breast binders. It's a sad and shocking read.

www.nytimes.com/2019/06/17/reader-center/chest-binding.html?

Binding for religious or cultural reasons = bad
Binding for trans cult reasons = good

SisterWendyBuckett Would you consider going to one of the national newspapers to see if they would cover this issue? This really needs to get out to the general public.

I’ve posted before about how some of the nuns at the convent school I attended bound their breasts as a form of bodily chastisement. Hair shirts and cilices also featured as penitential items. Nothing remotely positive or healthy about binding.

'This is a great article that argues that breast binding is a response to sexual objectification'

Yes.

Loads of girls do and always have hated their breasts, for a host of reasons.

When I was at school girls wore baggy clothes and starved themselves to try and reduce /stave of the visible changes to their bodies, breasts being the most visible change of all. That results in a massive change to how you are seen /treated by everyone especially men.

Western societies fetishism breasts to a terrible level its no surprise that when girls start to grow them it's often met with a variety of fairly strong emotions including not wanting them.

Nothing to do with gender and everything to do with the way womens bodies esp breasts are viewed in a sexist pornified society.

for your niece Prawn I've been there.

My heart breaks for all these girls. Still the gaslighting of these children and the guilt tripping of their parents carries on. Thanks media.

Sister