Comments on: The Scar Project http://meetjesusatuni.com/2011/08/13/the-scar-project/ Sat, 18 May 2013 07:50:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Michelle http://meetjesusatuni.com/2011/08/13/the-scar-project/#comment-2110 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:11:10 +0000 http://arthurandtamie.wordpress.com/?p=4349#comment-2110 That is incredibly confronting. I must admit I was initially repulsed by the first image, but I think that is my cultual wiring coming to the fore. I was also struck by the fact she is pregnant – I was thinking about how that woman misses out on breastfeeding. That deeply saddens me – that those breasts will never nurse that baby. (What does she do if her milk comes in and she has no nipple to get rid of it? I suppose she would take drugs that suppress milk production then? Or does she have no breast tissue left capable of making milk?)

Anyway, I get sidetracked when breasts are the topic these days – it always ends up about breastfeeding. I really think of boobs differently after 3.5+ years of breastfeeding and seeing women getting their boobs out for babies and children 4+ years old (you only see that kind of thing in specific places in Australia, but yes, some Australian women don’t wean at 1).

I think part of the lack of sexualisation is the lack of nipple(s). It seems to be in most magazines that we can be shown any amount of a women’s breast except for the nipple and that is “okay”.

There is one woman whom you can tell has been crying – a tear has run down her cheek. It is a very powerful image for all its vulnerability.

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