Posted on 01/04/2005 8:39:37 AM PST by kahoutek
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Radio giant Clear Channel Communications has come under fire from women's health advocates over a Christmas contest in which stations granted breast enlargement surgeries to women in four cities.
In the "Breast Christmas Ever" contest, 13 women were awarded the procedure after writing essays to the stations explaining why they wanted larger breasts. A Tampa station claimed to receive more than 91,000 entries.
Clear Channel said it had nothing to do with the contest and that it was a decision by local station managers to hold the promotion. The contest was aired on Clear Channel stations in Tampa, Jacksonville, St. Louis and Detroit.
The contest has drawn the ire of both the National Research Center for Women & Families and the National Organization for Women. NOW has urged its supporters to file complaints with the Federal Communications Commission against Clear Channel and its stations.
The controversy comes within months of Clear Channel paying a record $1.75 million fine to resolve indecency complaints against New York-based shock jock Howard Stern, Tampa radio personality "Bubba the Love Sponge" and others. The station formally agreed to "clean up its act," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in June.
Wow... "factory air", too!
When it isn't just their body?
My husband is happy about it, and I have learned to appreciate my assets. I am a chubby girl, but as long as I look down and see my protruding breasts instead of a protruding tummy (which I also have, but it's smaller), then I'm OK!
:o)
If they make this into a reality TV show, I might watch.
Oh to be so lucky! In high school I was very thin due to a LOT of running, but I chubbed up when I stopped. I am so happy with my life, however, that a few (well, okay, more than a few) extra pounds hasn't injured my self-esteem. Of course, my chest does help with that. I don't get noticed 'cause I'm the "Fat" chick! I get noticed cause, um, well, you get it :o)
Now that ain't possible.
LOL, I do. I almost wish I had that problem...but Mr. Ex is okay with me as is. Though I have considered some "work" after I'm finished with having babies. They are never the same after that. *sigh*
I would never leave the house , I'd be way too busy. ; )
Yep. We'd never leave the house.
I've heard that too! I've had one baby (last year), and I don't know if I'm just lucky, but they seem to have sprung back nicely. Of course maybe that's just my perception. Or maybe one baby doesn't a breast ruin... I don't know. But I do know that Mr. P-Chan would be very sad if I even considered changing my appearance. I wanted to dye my hair one and the man practically cried asking me not to. (OK, so I wanted to dye it dark blue...) Now that my hair is going gray, he still doesn't want me to dye it (a normal color). I have been teasing him about getting my tummy stapled or a gasteric bypass... but he's not buying it.
But it's fun to tease him! :o)
I can hit and carry 200, but 190 feels better.
True
Wouldn't it be better if you hit at least .500, or are we talking about weight? :o)
LOL. But after one, mine actually got bigger. As I went on, though, it's gotten worse. They aren't hideous, by any means, but they aren't what they used to be, and they are about what they were before I had children, minus some "lift", lol.
This is my fifth baby, so I am dreading the result. :) I can't complain too much, though. I have escaped getting a lot of stretch marks, thank goodness. My mother wasn't so lucky. :(
NOW is just trying to justify its continued existence, that's all. IMHO, the feminists are setting themselves up for another thrashing at the hands of their "sisters", which will be great fun to watch. Women who have that surgery done *want* to have it done. I guess the argument that the feminazis are so fond of ("It's my body and I'll do as I please with it...") does not apply here. NOW better hope that its criticism is merely ignored.
Back in the '70s, some feminist organizations arranged some sort of "summit" with prostitutes. It turned out that the feminists wanted to discuss the eventual elimination of the "profession" of prostitution. Surprise, surprise... the hookers did not feel that their chosen line of work needed to be eliminated, and voiced their disagreement in loud, four-letter words. I sure wish there was a videotape of that somewhere... ;-)
Mr. Ex looks better at 200, but he thinks he looks fat, lol. That's because he hasn't been lifting weights. When he does that, he can hit 235, he tells me. I would be a-feared of that! LOL
After five babies (lucky!) I would think that they are gonna be what they are gonna be, and leave it at that! You are very fortunate to avoid stretch marks. I have a road map on my tummy that can lead me to Florida! Big darn roads too! But she's worth every one. :o)
My batting average was .325.
They're worth all of it. But I have to say that it bugs me some, so I'll fix it if it bugs me too much.
I'd rather get LASIK done first, and get rid of these darn glasses. In the meantime, I'll just buy Wonderbras, lol!
Muscle weighs more than fat. 190 without working out, just my normal activity level is fine. 200 at my activity level would be OK. Above 200 I need to work out which drops me back below 200 unless I increase my intake. My goodness it gets so confusing.
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