I don’t really understand the desire to use this woman’s example to make some kind of statement about social justice. This thread has more than twice the posts of the thread about sexual assault on college campuses. It is the epitome of selective attention on the internet.
i’ve gawked plenty at bmezine. i didn’t mean to suggest that there’s no place for extreme modification.
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The hippocratic oath is mostly a promise to maintain the reputation and insularity of the medical caste. It’s represented as a high moral standard, but it’s equally fair to regard it as a racketeering agreement, a pragmatic contract piously cloaked in Greek religious trappings.
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea, and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgement.
I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirements, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master’s children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.
With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgement and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.
Nor shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will get no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.
Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.
I will not cut for the stone, but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.
Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.
Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.
If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!
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Sadly, that’s the nature of arguments on the internet. An on-topic post offends someone due to a perhaps inadvertent side issue, they jump in, others comment, and the discussion veers wildly off topic. Just to briefly mention my place in all this, I responded to a post that roughly said, “How can one possibly interpret your comment as not supporting rape culture?” Since that’s not how I viewed the comment, I offered an alternate interpretation. I hadn’t originally intended to take sides, I merely wanted to point out that I thought there was a legitimate non-rapey interpretation, but having done so, I immediately get lumped in with the original commenter and no doubt foolishly allowed myself to get dragged into the argument. Since the original offending post is now gone, I really suspect the whole matter should be dropped.
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I am still slightly bitter about absolutely no other posts than mine on that gallery of CIA spy tech. Your favorite topics won’t always get the attention you would wish.
Yeah, I can’t really judge because I missed the original post. This woman did something. Some people think it’s weird, some think it’s cool, some don’t think anything. Suddenly there are accusation of promoting rape culture. I’m just not sure what happened.
Not quite the same, since there are actual references to rape culture in this thread. Why this is so, when the discussion is centered around a woman who decided to implant a third breast, is beyond me.
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And it’s probably a hoax anyway. That’s fantastic. There are 120+ posts. Wow.
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My guess is that some people tend to inject their pet peeve into anything they see fit, at the slightest opportunity.
People are weird and it is easier to argue about wishy-washy feelings-heavy stuff than things that are better specced and where the truth is less subjective.
That’s reasonable.
Re bmezine, it’s good to see there are people who are blazing the path for implantable functional enhancements. Their ones are purely cosmetic, but that is enough for maturing the outside-of-medical-establishment tech and making it more accessible. Then just (“just”, it’s a can of hightech worms) add neural interfaces and you’re in for e.g. artificial senses (weak magnetic/em fields, radiation…). More power to this subculture, we’ll need their methods and protocols.
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Nah, three-boob lady is all over the news today.
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I thought of this:
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Too many celebrities slum at the Clermont for it to go away… they’ll fix up the hotel into some fancy boutique, but the lounge will stay, at least for now.
Dixie? Are you sure you don’t mean Blondie, of the poetry writing, beer can with her boobs, Blondie? there is a whole documentary about her, you know:
http://www.akablondiefilm.com/
It’s been ages since i’ve been, but that sounds familiar…
I was of course sort of kidding with “classy”, but you know, it’s a unique space in Atlanta. It’s bizarre, sure, but it’s a good thing. It’s certainly a deeply subversive space, and we need more of those overall.
Overall, the gentrification of that corridor has been… interesting. it’s really changed in the past 20 years. I mean, they don’t want us to call the murder Kroger the Murder Kroger anymore! They want it to be known as the BELTLINE Kroger! Pssshhh… how bourgeois! 
Looks like it is a probably hoaxn - it was fun while it lasted:
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That article’s got a great title.
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I kind of love Gawker for that… they know how to write a title that catches your attention. They have some rather good writers over there, if you ask me.
The comment made, which seems to have been moderated out, was something along the lines of ‘her body is for us’.
I’m glad you were not offended. I too was not offended. I saw it as a puerile (yes, I am infantilizing the commenter) attempt to push away uncomfortable feelings about a difficult topic by someone unlikely to be ready for an adult relationship. Just my opinion of that sort of claptrap.
I totally understand the offense at hand, and I agree that the comment very much supported/echoed/represented rape culture. I see it as normalizing the idea of an external locus of control, which really grooms a potential victim, and identifies a potential aggressor. I believe you would have to have spend time with predators, or maybe be a victim yourself, to really get this.
I see the three breasted woman as someone telling us who she is. I think it speaks volumes that some among us are busy telling others who she -really- is… this stranger from a picture on the internet. Suddenly there are people leaping to say who she is and what she wants and intends… as though they are the experts in her. Far more so than she is.
And that is rape culture.
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I appreciate your perspective, and in many situations I would agree with you.
My personal disagreement, and I think the point that the other poster was trying to make, is that this woman is going waaaaay out of her way to “publicize” her body, and use her body to sell herself to the public. That is kind of without question, right? Her entire point was to use this as a stunt to land a reality TV show. It doesn’t really get much more “public” than that. And because her very intent was to make her body and body modification (if it’s even real, I have doubts myself) public, her body is in a sense “of the public.” This isn’t the same thing, I don’t think, as saying her body is literally property of the public, under the public’s control, or anything of the sort. Rather, she has decided to go out of her way to sell her body to the public – not literally, of course, but as a commodity that is in the public sphere, for the public to potentially engage with as consumers in the media marketplace.
Anyway, that’s my reading of it, and I think both the post that I read to be making the above point, and the reply that lumped that poster in with rapists and rape culture, could have been more articulate and sensitive, in a way that would have helped foster the kind of dialogue I hope I’m engaging in now.
Yeah, yeah Blondie. Where did I get Dixie from?
The Kroger is getting a major facelift. The new Murder Kroger is now on Cleveland Avenue in East Point. I went in there once and went right back out when I saw armed security patrolling the aisles.
It’s objectification, anyway.
Hey! There are those who suffer, SUFFER, from polyorchidism, on a daily basis, and they DON’T NEED YOU MAKING LIGHT OF THEIR SITUATION.
Or so I’ve been told.
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In the majority of cases, the supernumerary testicle is found in the scrotum.
That’s comforting.
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