THE TRUTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS by Debra Dixon

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THE TRUTH ABOUT BREAST IMPLANTS

From The Perspective of My Boys

by

Debra Dixon

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.

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.

After the initial shock wears off my boys bombard me with questions.

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

Don't they have choices?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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. "

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.

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.