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[gfish]

I was watching a program last night on elective surgeries and one of the cases was a FTM double mastectomy. It's nice that a fairly mainstream show can include that without it being a big deal. (And the final result, along with the T injections, was really very impressive.) But I kept cracking up at the before and after shots, because the nipples were only blurred in the before shots. They're the same nipples! Breasts just make people go all weird.

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[anansi133.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about this a bit lately, and while I'm not rock-solid sure about this, I do kind of feel that it's harder to maintain gender inequality and the 'feminine mystique (http://www.h-net.org/~hst203/documents/friedan1.html)' when men and women are exposed to each other's nude bodies in a non-sexual context.

If casual nudity in the workplace became the norm, if most social getherings were clothing-optional, I don't think men and women would stop appreciating the difference. I think men would be forced to learn some manners, and women would be forced to relax about their appearance.

Next, you'd have cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!