Re: THE TRUTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS by Debra Dixon

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Absolutely Outstanding!

Should be must reading for every high school student!

I've forwarded it to a couple plastic surgeons!

Thanks,

Rogene

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Wow, rogene, that is a really good article. I loved it.

hugs

kathy

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> THE TRUTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS

> From The Perspective of My Boys

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> Debra Dixon

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> When I educate adolescent sex offenders about women's issues I

> include information on female genitalia mutilation. They are,

> predictably, wide eyed and quite horrified. I do this to

illustrate

> my point about the degradation of women and their bodies. The

young

> men's faces contort every time I address this subject. I then

> describe the society that cuts women, and even young girls, open

and

> stuffs their chests full of different materials, some of which are

> used in construction, so that their breasts look bigger.

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> I tell them about how many of the women and girls get infections

and

> how many of the containers that they put the construction

materials

> into leak into the female body. I tell them how almost all of the

> females have to have their chests opened up more than once and

have

> it redone and how many of them get horribly ill because their

bodies

> react to the leaking bags and the chemicals they contain. I show

> the boys pictures of scarred women who don't even have nipples

much

> less breasts. I tell them about the diseases that some of the

women

> get and how they can't take care of their children or go to work.

I

> tell the boys how their husbands and boyfriends, who often wanted

> them to get the bags put in, usually leave them after they get

sick.

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> After the initial shock wears off my boys bombard me with

questions.

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> They want to know why, if so many get ill, do the females allow

it?

> Don't they have choices?

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> I explain to them that we can only make choices with the

information

> we have. If someone doesn't give us all the information we need

then

> our choice isn't as good. I compare it to them agreeing to drive

a

> friend to the store. Only to find out the friend has a gun and is

> going to rob the store. I ask the boys if they would have made a

> different choice if they had all the information. They nod.

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> I tell them that the females are made all kinds of promises about

> how good they will look and how men will want them. I remind them

of

> the week we discussed how females who didn't have mates were more

> often considered fair game for men like them - men who want to do

> them harm. I remind them of how women who are seen as " belonging "

> to another man are usually safer in our society.

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> I go back to the lessons on the media depiction of females and I

> remind my boys that all of their lives the females in the society

> are only shown pictures of women who have these bags and the young

> women come to accept that's what they should look like. I remind

> them that all of their lives the women are shown pictures of

> composite women ( Crawford's torso with someone else's legs

and

> yet someone else's breasts) and the females aren't told this. My

> boys remember the week we discussed airbrushing and how the

females

> come to believe that they should look like this. They remind me

of

> Barbie and the fact that even the toys the young females are

given

> show these bags of construction material. I remind the boys of how

> upset young women get when they see they aren't developing

> like " normal women. " I remind them of how the young girls are

> disappointed and develop eating disorders and addictions.

>

> wants to know why they don't just look at or listen to the

> sick women, " Surely they can see that these bags are making women

> sick, " he says. I tell him that the females who get really sick

are

> hidden away from society and are seldom given medical treatment

and

> so other women really don't know. And sometimes there are rumors

> about illness. I tell them that when that happens the makers of

the

> bags just say the women are lying or it's all in their heads and I

> remind them of how they tried to blame their victims. When the

> rumors start the people selling the bags pay someone else to say

> they are safe. Just like they might give someone money to testify

> for them.

> I point out how hard it is for sick people to protest or

> demonstrate, go out and knock on doors or run a public awareness

> campaign. I explain to my boys that these women and their

families

> spend all of their money and time trying to keep the sick woman

> alive and have nothing left for activism and fighting. And this

> illness helps to keep the secret of the sick women. I tell my

boys

> that the older women really do want to protect the younger women.

> They just can't.

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> My boys want to know who is experienced enough to cut open females

> chests and put the bags in. They ask me if it is mothers and

aunts

> like with genitalia mutilation. I tell them that a certain group

of

> doctors in the society have agreed to do it. They want to know

why

> some doctors would do such a thing. I tell them that the medical

> field has been flooded by people who thought they were going to

get

> rich and that there are so many doctors that some of them are

doing

> whatever they can to get money. I compare it to the neighborhoods

> they are so familiar with and how some of them will choose to sell

> drugs - for the money.

> " Why don't the good doctors tell them to stop? " they ask.

> " I don't know, " I tell them.

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> I hear a voice ask me, " Why don't the good doctors give them

medical

> care? "

> I explain to the boys that, just like the gangs many of them

belong

> to, the doctors stick together. They are taught in medical

schools

> not to step on each others toes and that if a doctor were to help

> one of the sick women then he would be admitting that she was

> actually sick and that there is a problem. I tell them that there

> are some very good doctors who are helping the women and that

those

> doctors frequently get hurt for helping. I compare it to what

they

> would do to a disloyal gang member I see in their faces that they

> get it.

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> " Well, why don't these sick women sue the people who make and put

> these bags in them? We all have a right to sue. People sue all

the

> time. "

> I explain the reality of our Justice system. I explain how these

> people who make the bags have an endless supply of money to

fight

> the victims. They pay people to go to court and say that the bags

> are safe and how they have a lot of attorneys to drag it out and

> make it cost so much that the women can't fight anymore. I tell

> them how many of the judges used to work for people just like the

> bag makers. We talk about how the one with the most money can buy

> the " best " witnesses and research. We talk about how the one with

> the most money can essentially beat the weaker one up so bad that

> they have to stop fighting. And when it's all said and done the

> people who make the bags can go to court and file papers saying

they

> don't have enough money to pay while the women die alone, without

> medical care. I remind them of the only convicted sex offender

they

> knew that came from a rich family and how he was incarcerated for

a

> matter of months before his parents successfully bought

> his " Justice. "

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> I tell them that the people selling the bags of construction

> material have a lot of money and power and that people are afraid

if

> they tell the the truth they will get hurt (sued or worse). I

> compare it to a gang or the Mafia so that they understand the

abuse

> of power, privilege and process. They nod to show they got it.

They

> understand about keeping their mouths shut to avoid injury.

>

> " Why doesn't the government stop the people who make the

> construction material bags? " I explain to them that the society

has

> a government that is set up so that whoever has money gets to talk

> to the people that make laws. I tell them that people who have

> money are allowed to give it to the people that make the laws. I

see

> the frustration my boys feel.

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> My boys now understand how this has happened and feel so bad for

the

> women in this brutal, greedy society. My boys think that

lawmakers

> should stop taking money from the people that make bags of

> construction material. My boys think that the media should write

> stories about the women that are hidden away, suffering and dying

so

> that other women, and young girls, can have the information they

> need to say , " No. " My boys think that they should stop showing

> young women only pictures of perfect women and stop lying to them.

> My boys think that the people who make the bags of construction

> materials and the people who put them in the females should take

> care of these females and pay for their medical care. They think

> that anyone who participated in damaging these females should go

to

> jail - just like they had to. They recommend that these doctors

and

> bag makers should have to take responsibility, meet with the

victims

> and do victim impact. They think that parents or teachers or

> someone should explain to young girls about airbrushing and

> composite pictures - like I teach them. My boys want to know why

> when, at 12 years old, one of them injures another everyone wants

> them held accountable, but when someone with a lot of money hurts

a

> whole lot of women they don't even have to say sorry? They ask

> me, " Does anyone ever call the bag makers and bad doctors

> misogynists or predators, like they do us? "

> I assure them that I do.

> And even though they have been victims of injustice and

perpetrators

> of injustice they are horrified to find that I have been telling

> them of an American mutilation practice.

> They are horrified to know that there are two levels of criminals

in

> our country and that one level is being prosecuted while the

richer

> criminals, who are injuring many more people, are not only not

being

> prosecuted but they are being protected.