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A woman is defined by breast size?

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  • Instead of wasting time worrying about whether or not drag-queens are TG we, perhaps, ought to be getting worked up about things like this (all links to same story):

    http://deeplyproblematic.[...]ds.html


    http://www.queerty.com/tr[...]100611/


    http://www.pinknews.co.uk[...]ure-up/


    http://genderacrossborder[...]-giard/


    I've put these four links up because the comments are worth reading as well.


    Lynn H.
    "It ain't what you do,it's the way that you do it............and that's what gets results!"
      July 6, 2010 1:38 PM BST
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  • Who decided what Delphine should look like?
    An individual or a commitee?
    I find this incredibly insulting, to all women everywhere.
      July 7, 2010 12:24 PM BST
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    I'm sure that will get overturned. It's just plain stupid.
    Just like the statement below.



    By their estimate, small-breasted women like English actress Keira Knightley wouldn't pass for a woman, making it apparent that the French legal system is not only trans-phobic and classist but also misogynist and completely objectifying. Just like America!


    <p>Karen Brad</p>
      July 7, 2010 1:07 PM BST
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  • I love having small breast!!

    Can you imagine the number of guys applying to the state for the position of "Official Breast Validation Officer."
    Perhaps there should be a position opened up for Male Validation as well - "Official Penis Validation Officer." (wang weigher?, stiffy sizer?)




    "and my needs entwined, like ribbons of light...and I came through the doorway, some where... in the night"
    <p>Doanna Highland</p>
      July 7, 2010 4:48 PM BST
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  • I can just imagine little Pierre in kindergarten on the first career day...

    and what career does you daddy have little Pierre? ... asks the teacher..
    "My Daddy is a Boobie Bouncer!" ... answers little Pierre - then little Jean-Luc pipes up from the back of the class...that's nothing!!! my daddy is a "scrotum squeezer!"




    "and my needs entwined, like ribbons of light...and I came through the doorway...some where... in the night"
    <p>Doanna Highland</p>
      July 7, 2010 5:04 PM BST
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  • The French, a nation of sophistication and enlightenment? A signatory of the EHRC, 1999. One of the European states that denigrated us in the UK for not complying with articles of the Hurman rights Act. forcing the UK to eventually bring in the GRA 2004. One of the articles of the EHRC is a section that deals with Transgendered people, and states the definitions of gender dysphoria being the basis for transitioning and is not necessarily a physical requirement and no person transitioning should be forced into surgery. But there again the French just do what ever pleases themselves. I find it absolutely ludicrous that in this day and age some idiot would even contemplate making these rules. So are the french going to legistate about lingerie, stipulating the sale of what they rule as undersized bras? I can see a comercial enterprise emerging, smugling double A' bras across the chanel disguised as knee pads for floor layers.

    Will they contemplate a willy tax? LOL wonder how many French man will submit a nil return.
    Cristine Jennifer Shye.  B/L.  B/Acc
      July 8, 2010 10:33 AM BST
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  • ROFLMAO!
    <p>Traci</p>
      July 8, 2010 12:34 PM BST
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  • Hiya!
    I prefer to take the stance that this is media coverage of a single person's bigoted comments and probably doesnt represent French opinion on the whole. The individual should probably be struck off from any professional activities considering the outlandish, backward and extremely out of touch opinions expressed.
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    Penny
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    Just an ordinary girl finding her way in this strange life. - What will it take to get everyone to realise that everyone else is also a human being that deserves just as much respect? - How does someone tell their doctor they have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia? - When I was a student I specialised in Alcopology. It always starts with Alco and always ends with pology. - Waiter! There's a hare in my rabbit pie!
      July 8, 2010 4:30 PM BST
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  • ***WARNING: THOUGHT PROVOKING COMMENTS BELOW!!!***

    Ladies...

    **sighs**

    There's two sides to this. The first is that this is so wrong on so many levels. How can anyone tell a woman what size her boobs should be? It's wrong, it's offensive, and it should be struck from civilized discourse. (I would also say it's typically French, but do not wish to insult my French sisters.)

    The other side: deep down inside each one of us is the realization that we want our boobs to be looked over by men. It's a rush, and at the subconscious level, if we want to be viewed as women this is one of the things we need to look at. Boobs do not make you a woman...but in the eyes of men, a nice rack will go a long way. Look at people like Marilyn Monroe, Pam Anderson, and some of the supermodels. Nice legs, nice rack, nice hair. Men don't care if they can act or not; get them on screen and jiggle a little and they're all prepubescent again. (That includes the sweaty hand thing...ick. )

    And genetic women spend millions each year trying to achieve that look.

    Don't believe me? Look at a woman's magazine! Better yet: think back to the "it" girl of your early youth. There are two that stand out in mine: Farrah Fawcett and Lynda Carter. How many of your genetic girl friends wanted to look like/be those women? And how many boys had wet dreams of them? Even better: how many men fantasized about doing it with them? (Don't tell me; I don't wanna know in either case.) I'll admit I wanted to be like them, and any number of others I won't admit to; I do have some pride.

    Face it, ladies--for we are all women here, in various stages--if we want to be women, we want to look like and be treated like one. Having a set of boobs, while not the all in all, does make looking like a woman that much easier.

    Why else do we have discussions of things like bras and breast enhancement in here if we didn't think that was the case?

    So, yes. I'm insulted too. Very much so. Nobody can or should tell me how big my boobs should be. That is none of their business.

    But let us not have any patronizing comments on this matter; look inside yourself and ask, if the opportunity presented itself, if you wouldn't want--or better yet, have--a permanent rack of your own--and have some man looking at or playing with them.

    Luv 'n hugs,

    Mina
    Living as the woman I am!
      July 13, 2010 3:58 PM BST
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