Emma Corrin (the young Princess Di) and breast binders

[Justme56]

"Emma Corrin is embracing a “new” and “intimate” journey as she reveals she has bought her first binder"

Article in the independent (sorry behind a paywall) about Emma who played the young Princess Di in 'The Crown'. Emma is also discussing this on her Instagram page (650k followers) highlighting where she buys hers from (gc:2b).

@Aprilinspringtimeshower

Oops just posted new thread Pictures in daily mail are terrible..really glamourised and sexualise dof her chest binds fgs.

In the stupidly glam pictures the binder is loose, showing cleavage and looking like avant garde lingerie. In reality they are hideously tight and compress the breast tissue. It is breast ironing by another name.

How the fuck is sharing something with 656,000 followers intimate??

"Very new, very cool". And those accompanying b&w photos don't look at all like this generation's 'thinspo', no, not at all.

In the aftermath of the Wi Spa stuff I saw Glenn Greenwald retweet a piece from the New York Post about socialite Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo 'coming out' as 'queer', meaning in her case 'demisexual' ('Demisexual people only feel sexually attracted to someone when they have an emotional bond', the article explains!). "She added that when she first came out as “queer,” she feared she would be perceived as “attention-seeking,” since it’s “hip or cool to not be hetero in my liberal bubble.”

LOOK AT ME!!!!!

I don't really see this as much different from announcing you're going to undergo breast enlargement surgery? You want to look cosmetically different because you feel your body doesn't match certain stereotypes so instead of speaking out against those stereotypes you change your body to conform? I think both are dangerous of course, the risks should be addressed up front.

Nothing wrong with playing around with image, expression etc - until you introduce massive risk of physical damage and aren't open about this.

Nothing wrong with playing around with image, expression etc - until you introduce massive risk of physical damage and aren't open about this

Yes, and when it promotes a potentially harmful trend that's rife in young women at the moment.

The reliance of the opinions and validation of others is also a problem. It puts people in a position where there's no way to change their minds. It just shouldn't be encouraged. Indulging this neediness isn't kind and if you are reliant on others for validation amd recognition that's just not a healthy place to be.

People at the moment (especially on social media) are so self obsessed though. I couldn’t imagine a conversation in which I told someone what sports bra I was wearing/how I felt about my boobs because I just don’t think they would care.

I think social media encourages this navel gazing attitude because it gives you an instant audience who will then all bounce off each other.

Not sure why anyone would exhibit a photo like this, and who would think it's important. I have never heard of this woman, but if she want's to wear these binder things, she should just wear them and bind herself up,and keep quiet, and disappear from view. A lot of these binder people will probably have a different view of their bodies in time.

So on one extreme we have young women wearing very little clothing, “flaunting” their bodies, very sexualised (think love island.) on the other extreme we have young women opting out of woman hood but still… displaying their half naked bodies. It seems that no matter which way they turn women are expected to put themselves on display!

@1forAll74

Not sure why anyone would exhibit a photo like this, and who would think it's important. I have never heard of this woman, but if she want's to wear these binder things, she should just wear them and bind herself up,and keep quiet, and disappear from view. A lot of these binder people will probably have a different view of their bodies in time.

So it's OK to tell women to "disappear from view" now, is it? To tell them to "keep quiet"?

So you don't like what she's doing. Why does that mean she has to hide it?

Modelling was just starting to address the fact models were too thin and now they are introducing a new generation of models who have to remove all signs of their breasts and bind them away.

Are we going to ban breast reductions too, while we're at it?

Why does that mean she has to hide it?

Because binding is a harmful practice and it should not be encouraged or promoted.

Because teachers come here and post that their students cannot do PE because they are wearing binders.

Can you tell us why you would support any person who advocates a harmful practice to teenage girls?

@ThursdayWeld

Are we going to ban breast reductions too, while we're at it?

If this person only had a purely adult audience and following, maybe this would be ok.

It does seem alarming that she played a very famous woman with an eating disorder and yet doesn’t make any parallels with binders also being harmful and has no qualms posting pictures of herself looking very thin.

I watched a Vogue “what’s in my bag?” with her don’t judge me and she showed her vibrator multiple times. At first I thought ok great normalising female pleasure and knowing your body etc but by the end it just seemed attention seeking/trying very hard to be cool.

Maybe the students don't want to do PE in the first place.

Maybe there are a lot of teens who are tired of being told how they have to treat their bodies by other women.

I dunno, I just don't think that breasts are the be all and end all, and if some women wish their were smaller, or didn't stick out so much, I'm not going to get upset about it.

@ThursdayWeld

Are we going to ban breast reductions too, while we're at it?

Do you understand that in the USA there are girls as young as 13 getting double mastectomies?

There are young females in the UK who believe that being non-binary also means you should remove perfectly healthy breast tissue completely.

At what age is it ok that the NHS removes healthy breast tissue for gender identity purposes?

@ThursdayWeld

I dunno, I just don't think that breasts are the be all and end all, and if some women wish their were smaller, or didn't stick out so much, I'm not going to get upset about it.

Have you ever spoken to a woman who has residual health issues due to double mastectomies? Or do you think it is only cosmetic and that there are absolutely no life limiting issues attached to that operation.

The degree of nerve damage can be horrendous even with very experienced surgeons.

tI's probably no tighter than a sports bra for running*

Gosh you'd think they'd just wear sports bras then when they're cheap and easy to buy in any major shop.

@StrawberryLipstickStateOfMind

They're awful things. What a way to make young girls hate their bodies even more. Can't we encourage acceptance and love for their bodies? I bloody well understand why a teenage girl wouldn't feel love for their body- I really didn't- as a woman I want to do anything I can to help girls and women be proud of who they are. This is how I want my daughter to feel.

Why the hell can't Emma Corrin keep it to herself- what business is it of anyone else's? Attention seeking. Pure and simple attention seeking around a hot topic.

Yes, couldn’t say it better

Sorry, even a single mastectomy too.

I haven't advocated for double mastectomies

I just don't think that breast binding is particularly bad. I doubt we will agree on this, and I can't be bothered with a whole thread of people telling me I'm wrong, so will toddle off now.

There's an element of, 'Do it to Julia!' in all this, isn't there? 'I've opted out. I'm special. I'm different. I'm a human being, just like you. Do all the horrible stuff to the woman-y women, but please don't notice me.'

As we've moved from, 'Penises in locker rooms will never happen,' to, 'It's rude to stare at a penis in the women's locker room,' so quickly, I wonder if the next development will be, 'Well, she's not wearing binders so she must like male attention.' 'If you don't want men to stare at your breasts you should have worn binders.'