Question for you: Is a boob by any other name still a boob?
What word do you use to describe your body part?
Boob or breast?
"Your breasts are not boobs, a boob is an idiot and your breasts are not idiots." - Sheila Kelly
boob –noun
1. a stupid person; fool; dunce.
2. British. a blunder; mistake.
3. -Slang: Sometimes Vulgar.
a female breast.
You see it's awful sneaky, the way we've woven subtle negativity about our bodies into our daily lives. So subtle that we don't even notice it until it is brought out into the light for us to analyze. Seriously, think about it. It is all around you. It is all around us. Every day usage of English marbled with derogatory or ultra-masculine, not so flattering femme jargon. We've grown up in this kind of marbling so we don't notice it. We are just used to it. Not only do we not notice it, but we start to incorporate it into our thought patterns!
-excerpt from Sheila Kelly's newsletter
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