Despite a surge in #FreeTheNipple support over the past year, woman’s nipples are still apparently as the worst thing ever.
They are getting them out all over the place on shows such as Game of Thrones and Outlander, and Miley Cyrus gets hers out during every public outing, but our lovely marks of womanhood still need to be censored in advertising and social media.
To strike back at the censorship while getting out the message about breast checking for breast cancer, Argentinian breast cancer awareness company, MACMA (Movimento Ayuda Cander De Mama), has launched a social media campaign using the next best thing ... man boobs.
"It’s hard to get women over 25 to examine their breasts regularly to prevent breast cancer," Joaquin Cubria and Ignacio Ferioli, the GCD and VP of campaign agency David Buenos Aires told Bandt.
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The restrictions that are behind this ad are ridiculous but there is one really good thing about it: An ad featuring a man-breast-check could encourage and remind men to check their own, and hopefully an early diagnosis helps save some of them from breast cancer as well.
Having said that, it's illogical that some people's nipples are deemed offensive while others are ok. On women, nipples are erogenous zones as well as being practical baby-feeders, while on men they're of no practical use except sexual yet they're the ones allowed to be seen. It makes no sense.
I'm all for anything that encourages women to check themselves for cancer, it's obviously very important and this is a great way to get the info out there, given the restrictions they have. It just seems so ridiculous that you can't show an actual woman's breast, even to show how to correctly examine one. Why is a woman's breast offensive, but this guy's 'man boob' isnt? Can we not tell the difference between medical/ health information and pornography? Honestly, they're just breasts, they aren't that big of a deal.