A friend's blog today

Dee1028 · June 2011

My BFF from grade school and high school wrote a blog post today that I find interesting and disgusting.

A radio station where she lives is having a contest. The prize? A BOOB JOB!!

Are you effing sh!tting me?

This is our society? Disgusting.

Apparently, you post your picture and people vote on you if they think you should get a free breast augmentation. And it's not for people who have had mastectomies or anything because our health care pays for that. It's called something like "Breast Summer Ever"

Gross.

ETA: Blog link

CWinfree85 · June 2011

There is a radio station here doing a contest and the winner gets a $1,000 gift certificate to a plastic surgeon in the area. When I heard it, I'm pretty sure I said "WTF" out loud.

jCamsquared · June 2011

Ew.

AKB8208 · June 2011

I wish I could afford to have one done...but only because I have such a HUGE size difference (at least 2 cup sizes different). It's always been that way and I wear tanks all day every day to kinda help even them out but I'd really love to have them fixed.

That being said...I really don't think i'd post a picture on a website to get someone to vote for me to have them done. I do think that's sad...and you know there are a ton of people who are/will do it.

joanithegreat · June 2011

That is the stupidest contest EVER!!

Although I will admit that my youngest sister would probably be tempted to enter. She has one boob signifcantly smaller than the other (like more than a cup size difference). She is fairly self-conscious about it and she even tried to see if Alberta Healthcare would cover it if she got them fixed (they wouldn't)

ellephunt · June 2011

Seems like a really bad popularity contest. Vote on the hottest girl so she gets "hotter".

bellafirenze · June 2011

Hah! Is she near Detroit? Because there's a radio station here that does that every winter called "Breast Christmas Ever".
I tend not to listen to that station much...

ETA- Ahh I just checked the blog & it IS in Detroit. Funny enough, AMP radio isn't the station that does breast christmas ever. Its a competitor station that just started up this year and is notorious for their ploys to get listeners to switch from channel 95.5. Aparently they shamelessly stole the contest, name & all? Scandalous.

Lambie. · June 2011

Not the type of contest I would enter but if someone else does then that is their business.

JenniferJaneC · June 2011

Lambie.:
Not the type of contest I would enter but if someone else does then that is their business.

ITA. To each her own.

And not everyone who gets a boob job is a hot mess of insecurity.

ToshaGirl · June 2011

It is sure generating a lot of talk.

On one news station today someone said "it's not sexist" to which another person asked - "So would this be okay if it was a contest to have a penis enlargement?"

Lambie. · June 2011

CathyMD:
It is sure generating a lot of talk.

On one news station today someone said "it's not sexist" to which another person asked - "So would this be okay if it was a contest to have a penis enlargement?"

Yes, and if a dude wants a boob job and enters it I am ok with that too.

TheOriginalSP · June 2011

They did something like this a few years ago here. Although it was called The Mangled Mouth Makeover. They had people with messed up teeth send in pictures and they voted on who should get the mouth makeover.

The girl who won said it changed her life. She was so happy to finally have a smile that she could share.

jCamsquared · June 2011

TheOriginalSP:

They did something like this a few years ago here. Although it was called The Mangled Mouth Makeover. They had people with messed up teeth send in pictures and they voted on who should get the mouth makeover.

The girl who won said it changed her life. She was so happy to finally have a smile that she could share.

IMO this is apples to oranges.

wils0482 · June 2011

I'd totally get a boob job someday. Perhaps a breast-lift! That may be necessary in my future. I don't care what people think. Hell, why not?!

EdithBouvierBeale · June 2011

a contest for people who are willing to prove why they think they need cosmetic surgery with a prize of cosmetic surgery?

what the hell is wrong with that?

I think it would be really shiity if you entered someone else without their knowledge or consent- that'd be a drag.

I feel like the people who get the most bajiggity about cosmetic surgery are the ones who are jealous of people who get it because they either want it too, or feel badly about themselves.

dummies

mrsfowler1016 · June 2011

JenniferJaneC:
Lambie.:
Not the type of contest I would enter but if someone else does then that is their business.
ITA. To each her own.
And not everyone who gets a boob job is a hot mess of insecurity.

Yes I have fake boobs.

TheOriginalSP · June 2011

jCamsquared:
TheOriginalSP:

They did something like this a few years ago here. Although it was called The Mangled Mouth Makeover. They had people with messed up teeth send in pictures and they voted on who should get the mouth makeover.

The girl who won said it changed her life. She was so happy to finally have a smile that she could share.

IMO this is apples to oranges.

What about women who are self concious about their breast size? I have a friend who is dying to have a boob job because she has barely and A. She hates it. She feels like less of a women becuase she doesn't have breasts. If she got a boob job she would be able to have the confidence that she doesn't have now (not that having boobs gives you confidence), but for her, it could change her life too.

TheOriginalSP · June 2011

wils0482:
I'd totally get a boob job someday. Perhaps a breast-lift! That may be necessary in my future. I don't care what people think. Hell, why not?!

Once I'm done nursing my babies I'm totally getting a breast lift. I don't need a bigger size, I just need them put back in their 18 year old place!

wils0482 · June 2011

TheOriginalSP:

wils0482:
I'd totally get a boob job someday. Perhaps a breast-lift! That may be necessary in my future. I don't care what people think. Hell, why not?!

Once I'm done nursing my babies I'm totally getting a breast lift. I don't need a bigger size, I just need them put back in their 18 year old place!

Amen! I might throw in a tummy-tuck too. Hahahaha!

jCamsquared · June 2011

TheOriginalSP:
jCamsquared:
TheOriginalSP:

They did something like this a few years ago here. Although it was called The Mangled Mouth Makeover. They had people with messed up teeth send in pictures and they voted on who should get the mouth makeover.

The girl who won said it changed her life. She was so happy to finally have a smile that she could share.

IMO this is apples to oranges.

What about women who are self concious about their breast size? I have a friend who is dying to have a boob job because she has barely and A. She hates it. She feels like less of a women becuase she doesn't have breasts. If she got a boob job she would be able to have the confidence that she doesn't have now (not that having boobs gives you confidence), but for her, it could change her life too.

I don't care if anyone wants to get a boob job or tummy tuck or penis enlargement or whatever it may be - that's their prerogative. I just think a radio contest where people vote on your boob picture to win a boob job is in poor taste. Obviously I am not alone in thinking this or else Dee would never have started this thread.

And yes I still think that teeth and boobs are totally different.

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