12-Year-Old Boy Scouts Offer To Give Breast Exams
 

Kings of charity.

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Focusing on younger women lol

To be fair the older birds do know what they're doing!

And it's kind of them to focus on blondes, who are most at risk.

Is this an April Fools prank ?

Probably but funny none the less :laugh:

Looks more like a satitical show... maybe it's an attempt at a TiBB prank but it's too obvious that it's not a real show :suspect:.

Well I think it's just sad that some teenagers offer to check out young women's breasts, and people automatically assume foul play...

...so a the Onion is a satirical show...?...this seems to have been posted in 2008 as well so it’s not an April Fool thing, it’s quite an old segment and the posting date/months vary...?...anyways, that isn’t a criticism, Oliver...just an observation in looking at it because I was confused, was it an April Fool thing or etc...


...I can’t find it funny in any way...(...and that’s no criticism of you either, Oliver...)...breast cancer has been a part of my life and this is equating something sexual to breast examination ...?...or maybe I’m mistaken there and it’s also 12yr old boys...they’re children, we would be abhorred at the thought of anything sexual with an adult and a child so I don’t get the humour...one of the comments I saw was something similar to...’oh so if this is a joke, which 12yr old boy did I just have examine my breasts...’...I mean, really...?...this is so not funny, I can’t even begin with it...

don't bother bringing anything light hearted to the forum Oliver :fist:

Spot on

I have to agree Ammi, them being 12 (and I think, the presence of ACTUAL children in the studio) makes this unfunny. I can see it working as satire in, say, animation (South Park etc) but those characters are voiced by adults and their dialogue isn't "child-like" either. The young live actors in this makes it really uncomfortable :umm2:.

I don't know that it is light-hearted though - try flipping the genders and see if it's funny. Two 12 year old girls sat talking about checking adult men for testicular lumps and an adult male host saying "Oh I'll be sure to come on over". I'm not clutching my pearls and deeming the whole thing an unfathomable disgrace, but I do think it pushes into "just unfunny".

are we really going to get into a debate about it?

you missing Harry and Megs thread already?

nah

12 year old boys talking about gasp 'breasts' ..shocker

Oliver did post this in Serious Debates and News tbf

TIL Leather Trumpet has Buffalo Bill'd poor Cherie and is now living inside her skin and just posting freely. He thought we wouldn't notice... but we did.

A bit. It was just getting spicy but I'm not going to lie, the teams were lopsided so it seemed a bit mean.

...that 12yr old boys may discuss sexual things with their peers doesn’t change that this is something that’s ‘sexualising 12yr old children’ on an actual adult TV show for ‘entertainment’ value...if it was flipped as TS said and these were two girl guides discussing the ‘checking of males’ for testicular cancer, we would be abhorred...not only because they were children but also there is the health aspect...it’s sexualising the checking of bodies for a deadly disease...the whole thing is just extremely uncomfortable from every aspect for me...

That's also true, there are already enough people who avoid examinations and procedures like this and the message to combat that is reassuring people that it's purely clinical... putting out content that sexualises it even as a joke will reinforce those worries and put some people off. With obviously terrible consequences sometimes.

Smells like it

I didn't even notice, I am surprised Arista hasn't asked for a good mod to move it!

Some of the replys on the Youtube link
are months old

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you know I really take issue with that, like I don't have my own mind or something

I don't think that is true, I think testing for cervical cancer is an issue, I don't think women have any issue checking their own breasts, alot of women pick up lumps while in the shower, maybe you can link an article though?

:laugh:

I know it was a joke but it could make for an interesting discussion anyway

Mammograms for over 50's maybe, there's a scheme for that here like cervical screening. I know my mom uses it but I don't how big the uptake for it is really, you hear less about it

Yeah it only kicks in at 50, I don't think it is such a big issue because it's not as invasive or embarrassing as cervical screening, apparently its like squashing your breasts in a car door :laugh:

My Aunt had breast cancer and she would regularly check herself but it was in the shower that she felt the lump and she said the lump disappeared at times when she tried to find it again

thankfully she is 5 years post treatment now and off all meds

My mom fainted one time when she had hers :skull:

omg was she okay afterwards, like did she go back, not sure how often it is done every 3 years maybe?

Yeah she did but she's not the type who would be scared off easily, she's always been very thorough with her health and wouldn't let embarrassment or discomfort stop her getting treatments or tests done. I'd imagine it could scare some people off though. It's every 2 years I think

For sure!

It could be argued that it's different in this case than if the genders were reversed and it was girls talking about checking testicles because testicles are genitalia, and a girl going "down there" wouldn't be funny for any sense of humour - just like no-one could find the video funny in the o/p if they were talking about giving smear tests.

It's an imperfect comparison but the issue there is that there is no comparable secondary non-genital sexualised part of the male body to draw comparison with. I suppose you could go the other way and suggest that it would be two 12 year old girls offering to oil up bodybuilder's abs, chest and arms for a competition? Still an imperfect comparison because the male torso isn't overtly sexualised in the way that breasts are, but perhaps works better because yeah... I think most people would still find that a pretty uncomfortable scene.

Absolutely

Can confirm.Though not as painful as it sounds..for me anyway. Made me overly aware of how..non pert they are these days though, hoiking each onto a shelf thing then they squashed to a few cms each from there! :laugh:

bad taste

I have seen a video :omgno: it doesn't look as bad as smear though, that is the absolute worst but still go through it every few year.

Yeah they're awful

The nurse that does it at our surgery does an internal first, as she says she needs to know where she is going..hello you are not on the M5 :bored:

shine a light up there maybe!