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Coincidentally after trying on 6 bras (still with/ discomfort despite dropping sizes) I read this in the NYT. In an almost accusatory/disapproving manner, the author asks whether breast reduction is about oneself or really about conforming to societal beauty standards www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/w...

The Power of a Smaller Breast

Breast reduction is all the rage in cosmetic surgery. Are women asserting their independence or capitulating to yet another impossible standard of beauty?
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Perhaps an author with a more ample breast size would have been a more appropriate person to write this story, though I’m not even sure there is one to be told. In the newsletter referring to the piece, she wrote this: www.nytimes.com/2024/09/20/b...

So the idea that breast reduction is a liberation puzzled me. Isn't it just another tool that helps women conform to a body type that is endorsed by the wider culture and is amplified by influencers on TikTok wearing bikinis on yachts? Isn't it an expensive way to be able to wear tube tops and smock dresses in a flattering way? Maybe reductions are mirror image of breast augmentation, still one of the top plastic surgery procedures in the country, at about 300,000 per year.
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Sarah
@sarahoestreich.bsky.social
No hugging, no learning. Politics, climate, tennis, baseball, general nonsense.
412 followers231 following3k posts