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Judy Ritchie <[log in to unmask]>
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Just found this article.
Judy Ritchie


http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/294062_booblady30.html?source=mypi

'The Boob Lady': She's on a mission to create the breast 'owner's manual'
By ATHIMA CHANSANCHAI
P-I REPORTER
Elisabeth Squires doesn't want to be known as "The Boob Lady" forever. But
for now, she'll own that title, thank you. Squires is writing an unofficial
owner's manual for girls and women who want a one-stop spot for all their
burning questions about their breasts, from "sprouting to sagging." 

Elisabeth Squires talks about breast health and bras to eighth-grade girls
at the Seattle Girls School. Squires wants to educate and empower breast
owners.
She's calling it, "bOObs: A Guide to Your Girls." It's girls gone real.

at the end

She gave the girls a brief background on the prominence of breasts in other
cultures. Using dolls, Squires showed the girls goddesses whose womanly
attributes were worshipped because they symbolized life-giving through
nursing.
"In ancient societies, you didn't think about hiding your breasts. Women
worked and nursed," she said.

Recently, a woman was thrown off a flight for nursing -- an action that in
turn sparked a protest of nursing mothers at the same airport. Squires
blogged about it and similar instances of people being offended by nursing
moms and their images on magazine covers.

"One woman considered it a form of flashing, stating 'I don't want my son or
husband to accidentally see a breast they didn't want to see.' Accidentally?
In some cultures, women's breasts are purposely left uncovered at all times,
making it easy for them to do the centuries-old job nature intended: feeding
babies. What's unnatural are boobs deliberately hiked up by some
tits-on-a-platter bra, á la Victoria's Secret," she wrote. 

"In today's civilized society, women must stage 'nurse-ins' and lobby for
laws to protect their right to breast-feed in public. But there's no
legislation shielding our eyes from the endless images of provocatively
posed models in their skivvies -- ready for work or play in a pair of
indispensable stiletto heels."

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