One slate of the critical points that get lobed at me as the publisher of Breast of Canada inevitably comes down to the criticÂs way of understanding time and the number of options available.
Within my business model, I have decided to publish a twelve-month calendar once a year for ten years.
(Unless LIFE works up some funky situation whereby doing so would be REALLY STUPID) .Upon the release of my first edition calendar, I heard the following reactions.
* There are no old women.
* There are no small-breasted women.
* There are no large breasted women.
* There are no breast cancer survivors.
* There are no men.
I found it interesting that even though around 30 diversely shaped, aged, skin toned women were photographed in the calendar, the naysayers were unable to see that diversity and applaud it. Nor were they able to understand the constraints I was working with. Twelve months...twelve pictures.... once a year. Further, and contrary to the surface level of their comments, I wonder if it is they not me who have a limited belief of the millions of variations of natural breasts. How could I possibly squeeze them all in one calendar?
The next year I purposely found models that filled these 'missing' roles. And in subsequent years have continued to display different models each and every year. Although I haven't counted, I must be close to 250 models by now.
That would be two hundred a fifty examples of difference and counting.
There's a
Breast Self Examination video that is currently being raked over the coals in some circles. The familiar complaints seem to focus on what the BSE model WASN'T. She wasn't older, wasn't larger breasted, wasn't prudish enough.
This style of sentiment leads me to conclude that the owner of such comments believes in scarcity. Why not say, I think were on to something here. Lets make a thousand of these videos using a different woman in each one so that we can more fully explore the vast diversity of body types AND body attitudes.
This to me is abundant thinking. One woman does not nor will she ever be a representative for all. Nor does she need to be. As proven by the Breast of Canada calendar, I have hundreds of women ready and willing to provide their breasts as models of diversity all for different reasons.
Using a model of abundance with a time frame longer than the end of our nose gives the lofty goals of shifting ingrained negative societal attitudes about women's bodies a chance of success.
Calendar Girl is quite happy to be back in the publisher saddle preparing the 2007 edition. If you want to
pre-order one, your action will inevitably inspire her to shout out a resounding yippy!
Calendar Girl
Calendar Girl would like to take a moment to expose her other daily blogs. Should you find the subject of women's health of interest and appreciate the way Calendar Girls head is screwed on, you might find
My Menopause Blog or
The Breast Views Blog to your liking. If you are at all curious what kind of environment has helped to shape Calendar Girls head space,
Blog Guelph may well offer some insights.
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