Man boobs - Turning the afflicted into pariahs.

BOYS are having emergency surgery to get moobs, man boobs. That’s what we thought when reading the Sun’s headline “Moob op aged 10″ – that famous Moob Men like Arg in The Only Way Is Essex, Simon Cowell and Barack Obama had influenced the children at an impressionable age. If seven-year-old Poppy Burge can get vouchers for breast enlargement then why not boys, too? Equality between the sexes is all.

But the Sun’s story is that boys are having their breasts
reduced. In the past three years, 17 have had the procedure. That’s not
even six a year from a population of millions. Still, the paper uses
words like fear”, “crisis” and “epidemic”. The paper says its all about
obesity.

Is it?

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (the cheekily named Baaps) reports that surgeons carried out 323 male breast reduction procedures in 2008. In 2005, only 22 were performed. Increased awareness of moobs surgery – the use of the word itself a sign that it’s a talking point – improved surgery, the
hormone-blocking treatment for prostate cancer and classical cases or gynaecomastia (men’s breasts become larger than normal), which can be triggered by hormones, puberty, ageing, drugs, drinking and Klinefelter’s syndrome, a rare genetic disorder, can all create moobs.

Still, willowy shadow public health minister Diane Abbott (pictured), manages to bypass any meaningful investigation:




Or maybe it’s just that men know there is an option to never going topless and spending their youth being called "tits” by the class bully?

In 2009, plastic surgeon Douglas McGeorge told the BAAPS conference in Cardiff:


He cited an example of man seeking help:




And the media has played its part, and not only when it’s mocking Moob men, such as the Daily Mail’s article: “Moobs looks like a lady: Aerosmith frontman and American Idol judge Steven Tyler appears to have succumbed to the curse of moobs.”

The Sun wrote:

<blockquote>LEE Jardine, 24, put up with years of torment after
developing man boobs at the age of 13. Able to fill a D cup bra, the dad
of one from Mansfield had reached the end of this tether. But then,
miraculously, a long-lost relative offered to pay to have them
surgically removed, after reading about Lee’s plight in The Sun.
</blockquote>
Adding:




So. It’s not all about fat. It’s about self-confidence, illness, body
image and the realisation you can do something about a condition that
causes you anxiety. Still, the idiotic Diane Abbott says your medical
condition is a symptom of your own greed. Nice, eh…

Take a look at these man boobs and ass yourself if you’d resort to surgery


Source HERE.


I'm going to start another topic about Poppy Burge, so we'll leave this one to 'moobs' only lol. xx


I personally can't find anything wrong with a man who wants to improve his appearance If doing that by having surgery is what it takes to regain confidence - So what??!! xxx

Interesting topic cookie, if it's all about obesity then I suppose all overweight people have masses of breast tissue eh? Bloody ignorant woman that public health minister.