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How to Get a Breast Reduction

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Unladylike Media

Feminism, Gender, Media Analysis, Body Politics, Patriarchy, Intersectionality, Society & Culture, Cultural Commentary, Beauty Standards, Internet Culture, Womens Rights

4.83.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Why do breast reductions have such sky-high satisfaction rates? How does life before and after surgery compare? Listeners Kelly and S. share their breast reduction stories and the weight it did — and didn't — take off their chests.

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0:00.0

You grow up as a young girl looking at women's bodies and like, oh, I want boobs.

0:10.5

That would be awesome.

0:12.1

And then they start growing and then you're in sixth grade and they keep going past a

0:16.8

double D. And you're like, okay, you can slow down.

0:19.5

You can stop even.

0:20.5

Like that's plenty.

0:22.3

And then like in a year, they're a G and beyond.

0:26.2

And it's like just an entirely different thing than I was prepared for.

0:31.8

The like porn-agreification of my body by the whole world.

0:36.8

Today's episode starts with a subject line.

0:57.0

A while back, we got an email from the unlady like listener you just heard we're calling

1:01.2

her S. And the subject line was, how dareith a lady seek to

1:06.6

reduce damn titties.

1:08.6

Oh, my favorite Shakespeare play.

1:11.2

Yes.

1:12.2

S was in her early 20s and had just met with a surgeon about getting a breast

1:17.6

reduction.

1:18.8

She wrote, the pain from my chest weight is constant and inescapable.

1:23.6

It's in my lower back and hips, shoulders, upper chest, upper breast tissue, underbooped

1:28.8

tissue and neck.

1:30.6

S was sick of the chronic pain and also sick of the ogling, a feeling reduced to her

1:36.7

boobs.

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