Despite being a bloke this rings very true to me on a couple points.
Firstly I wonder if the not liking of your breasts was anything to do with (I hope I'm not being insulting when I suggest that you're probably in the same(ish)age range as me) having gone through your formative years (when becoming aware of personal politics) at the very end of the seventies/start of the eighties when there was a fair sized body of opinion which held that feminine and feminist were incompatible opposites. At times it felt (to me) that to simply fancy a girl was to oppress her with sexual stereotypes. It seems ridiculous now and I'm sure younger types reading this will be wondering what the hell I'm talking about as they are much more savvy in these matters.

The second point was the thing about accepting yourself when you get older. If there is one single bit of information that I can get across to my girls (or indeed any young person)it is that they are not anything like as fat/thin/geeky/whatever as they think they are. And any "imperfections" that they do have, aren't aything like as important as they think.
( Cave Duck, Fri 7 May 2010, 16:18, Reply)