Target Will Start Selling Chest Binders For The First Time

Binding boobs is a cruel practice and unsafe

I had no idea there were rules for creating "Pride" merch:

June is only weeks away, which means corporate windows across the country will soon be rainbow washed with the vibrant colors of Pride month. But, as we know, creating quality Pride merch isn’t simply slapping a technicolor flag on a $10 T-shirt and calling it a day. Queer talent must be employed behind the scenes (not just within the promotional content), funds must be donated to LGBTQ+ charities, and brands toting inclusion and acceptance must practice this within their company culture year-round.

What's next? Foot binders?

I recently read a young lesbian's story online about how her mother would painfully IRON HER BOOBS when she turned 11, in order to make her less vain and less likely to take up with men at a young age. Apparently this is actually a thing in some cultures! I can't imagine going through anything like that, and it's not from some outside force, it's from your own mother!

This is actually a thing! I had no idea.

[quote]Breast ironing, also known as breast flattening, is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl's breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear. The practice is typically performed by a close female figure to the victim, traditionally fulfilled by a mother, grandmother, aunt, or female guardian who will say she is trying to protect the girl from sexual harassment and rape, to prevent early pregnancy that would tarnish the family name, preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections such as HIV/AIDS, or to allow the girl to pursue education rather than be forced into early marriage. It is mostly practiced in parts of Cameroon, where boys and men may think that girls whose breasts have begun to grow are ready for sex.

Is this available in Mens XXXXL? Festive patterns/colors also are a plus.

WTF, R5. So they would rather mutilate the girls instead of expecting boys & men to control their impulses?

Here's the whole upcoming Pride merchandise section at Target. Everyone's got pronouns! Inclusivity for all!

Compression tops, for young women who despise their breasts so much they wish they weren't there:

r7 yeah, it's nuts!

Are there seriously enough trans and NBs out there to make this profitable?

They need to sell machetes to just hack off those repulsive dirty pillows. Blech!

R11, no, but it's not for them.

Do they make them for heterosexual men who still like pussy, but their man-boobs keep falling down on 20 year old faces?

I find the whole process unthinkable!

My convict boyfriend needs some.

Of course it's for them, r13.

^LOL

r11 Blueticks, popular figures, celebs like this? Considered as a 'legit' awards-winning actress working in the mainstream industry? She may be 'she/they' but is still a cis (maybe not, as a non-binary), or at least not a tranny yet.

Targeting and influencing the stupid or mentally ill young and not-so-young women.

Do they sell them in sets with paper bags?

R16 I believe Vicky White's correct address is: 50 Gallon Drum #1, bottom of Lake Wedowee, Alabama

Look at this bullshit. Yeah, sell a lie, Target, you pieces of shit.

Oh, and don't forget the underwear with the fake penis bulge!

For the enby who wants a little something "extra":

I'd love a Manzere!

Bro!

r22 "The Queer Liberation Movement Was Led by Trans Women of Color" - historically that isn't accurate at all. For one thing, Sylvia didn't consider herself "trans" ("respect people's identities!" doesn't seem to be applicable in this case for some reason), and for another thing, it was led primarily by gay men and lesbians, not transvestites.

I mean, the targets include the current non-trans, non-NB girls & women (= potential trans & NB through normalised conversion therapy / marketing like this) to whom the gaslighting cult ideas are repeatedly sold as cool like this and in the media = "The health-destroying, boob-hating, boob-binding, sorry *chest*-binding is some liberating (along with 'smashing the cis het patriarchy'), progressive, enlightened thing"

[quote]On the frontlines of The Stonewall Riots and a visible presence at gay liberation marches and political action protests, Johnson, Rivera and other members of the Trans community were leaders of the Queer revolution.

Interesting, so they are the leaders now.

What's wrong with binding?

EXCUSE ME, r27, but you need to educate yourself. As soon as someone realizes they are trans, they have always been trans, even before the point when they went on the journey of discovery that led them to discover their trans-ness. The transing is retroactive, and sometimes someone else's journey of trans-ness can reach back into history, transing random historical figures here and there, such as lesbian pioneers who wore men's clothing. Chest binders are worn by nonbinaries who are also part of the trans spectrum, but should they decide they are actually trans and not nonbinaries, they are also still trans, just MORE trans. Do better!

There's a place on that page with the bullshit Marsha/Sylvia shirt to report incorrect product information. I sent a message telling them their shirt was totally inaccurate and they should stop selling it.

I mean for people with women with gender dysphoria I guess good for t? Better than hacking them off I guess.

As for myself, a woman, I love my boobs and thank god for them daily.

After 400 years black people are still fighting for civil rights and acceptance.

After generations gay men and lesbians have come far, but are seeing rights erode.

And now gender nonconforming and trans people have clothing lines. It is amazing how far they've come so quickly. Who does their PR?

r33 the formerly gay-focused organizations like Stonewall, GLAAD, etc. - our own infrastructure.

Ridiculous! I would never want to organize my papers on my chest.

We REALLY need an asteroid to get a fucking move on.

The two whatevers in Op's photo need the binder around their belly, not their chest.

eyerolls at the trans troll reichwing

TomboyX is transphobic and CANCELLED!!!!

Target is complicit in perpetrating the falsehood that Stonewall was led by Marsha and Sylvia when both said that they were not even there that night when the riots began. But facts, apparently, are irrelevant. So to get around the inconvenient truth of who was there and what they may or may not have done, the makers of the shirt muddy up their claim by asserting that “the queer liberation movement was led by trans women of color.” Except that’s more myth than truth. But good luck challenging that.

R49 that's crazy.

I love the sanctimonious "I told them it was not MY job to educate THEM" near the end of that screed.

And the comments are all amping up the outrage "OMG IT'S A TERF COMPANY" etc.

^ r39

Do they work on manboobs? Will they be sold in both the mens and female clothing departments?

The two whatevers at the top photo are wearing sports bras.

No, and I'm shocked and horrified, r43!

Nazis attacking trans support centers. Sure, they're who you want to ally with.

R44 yes, the article chose not to put the binder photos front and center for some reason. They are further down into the article.

There's also product photos with models who have visible and jarring mastectomy scars.

R46 Hitler was a vegetarian. Using your logic, all vegetarians are aligned with Nazis.

If there’s a buck to be made then no sense looking around and asking the question where all these trans and enby kids came from which would be the normal reaction.

Damn, they were my next choice if I kicked Amazon and Walmart to the curb. What else is there?

One of my favorite Trans teen on TikTok had his double mastectomy last week, and he’s never been this happy before and there’s a lightness to him that wasn’t there before. He’s also gay.

It’s like the alt-right have invaded this scenario iundercover just to make liberals look batshit crazy.

a good portion of lesbians wear binders, too.

something of a going joke about you can tell how butch a lesbian by how large her tits are... just as you tend to find more lipsticks that are part of the itty bitty titty committee.

No surprise to most people probably but a lot of the anti trans posters in this thread are racists over on the Donna Summer thread, which was a troll post to begin with.

Barbra Streisand should market a line of Yentl binders, perhaps kosher.

Whenever I think we've reached peak trans, it goes further.

Someone tell me why in 2022 it's okay to normalize selling chest binders to (probably mostly) teenagers/young women.

Need this for moobs.

R54 most of us here don't consider ourselves "anti-trans" but we are concerned with chest binders and mastectomies and hormones being marketed to young people. There's a reason there has been an explosion in trans enbys the past several years, and it's not because everyone is suddenly figuring out they were really trans all along. Social contagion and pressure is a thing, and it's concerning to see people entirely renouncing the bodies and sex they were born with in hopes of something better. There's a lot of trauma involved in that.

As for whatever you are referring to with Donna Summer, I have no clue.

Sounds like gender euphoria, r51. Hope it lasts.

I love having nice moobs. I love having nice moobs in a tight dress.

r39 r41 Those tweets are from March 2020. TomboyX was already pro-trans then. Like any movement, pro-trans has had tons of common mass allies who mindlessly parrot and say yes to all things the cult dictates (like the myth of gays owing to TWOC Marsha Johnson or TWAW, etc.) but unfortunately not very well up to date with the latest "what's appropriate".

When these people get confronted for transphobia, they immediately repent and get re-"educated". Now, they're on the *right side*.

They seemed quite pro-trans then, they were clearly appealing to lesbians and nonbinary females and not trans women, however some like the model that posted the Twitter thread were offended because they didn't respect her "maleness". I think that sex = gender wasn't as widespread back then so the TommyBoy women probably thought that even though the trans men presented as males, they knew they were still female under everything. That line has been erased since then and this was even already well underway in March 2020.

Interestingly it looks like TommyBoy deleted their Twitter account, likely around that time, to deprive the mob of a focus.

The model on the left is Yasmin from the last season of Real World (the one they did on Facebook Watch). She was the most likable person in the house, level-headed & have great advice.

In one of her confessionals about body positivity she took off all her clothes & danced for the camera & said things like “I like my body because my fat jiggles. Can your body do that?”

In a later ep they went out to eat & she burst out crying because she couldn’t afford to pay, admitted she’s tens of thousands in credit card debt & no money in the bank. At that point I realized she’s a complete mess!

Pride has become another form of female consumerism. Notice they’re selling chest binders, not gaff underwear for trans women.

[quote]Are there seriously enough trans and NBs out there to make this profitable?

It's about seeding a market and dollars to be made. I bet normal girls will also buy, as a fad or if they hate their boobs.

[quote] a good portion of lesbians wear binders, too.

Bullshit.

Isn’t chest binding dangerous for young women?

Freedom of choice - people can make their boobs bigger, so they can make them smaller too. OP's flabby manboobs can make use of this chest binder too if she just looks in the mirror.

DROP THE TQ CULT.

The Lush cosmetics store started a "chest binding exchange programme" in the UK and were instantly criticised. People made a donation to a trans charity and were able to "order" a binder.

One of the criticisms was that Lush who describe themselves as both ethically and ecologically sound weren't technically selling the binders themselves so could defer any complaints to the charity the money was being raised for. Regardless of your position on breast binding it was a very dodgy position for a company to take on a something that can potentially cause harm, i.e. there should be advice on what to do if you experience pain or shortness of breath etc.

Lush's reaction to the criticism was to shut down a lot of its social media accounts because being online was "unsafe".

Interesting that GenderSwap advertises its used chest binders as "post op" rather than just standard chest binders.

The world is changing and it makes me so mad!

[quote]The world is changing and it makes me so mad!

Gay people concerned that other gay people are damaging their health because of pressure to conform to gender stereotypes is literal Nazisim.

R 24: It’s a bro !

I've just discovered the concept of a "Joey".

Not sure why they have holes though?

I wonder if they’re going to market one with two of the Target logos where the titties would be?

These people are deranged.

[quote] I mean for women with gender dysphoria I guess good ? Better than hacking them off I guess.

Gobsmacking that a real grown women would say this about other women. She must really despise her sex.

Almost anything would be better than needless mastectomy, actually. ‘Hacking off’ breasts has countless ramifications on the female body, it’s not purely cosmetic. The effect on the endocrine and nervous systems alone...

Just how does cutting off a healthy body part solve anything? If a woman with two working legs wants one amputated for no reason, she’s rightly sent to therapy for help because she’s disordered, not wheeled into surgery...

I was thinking last night ... what a country we're about to live in, where elective mastectomies are a-ok, but elective abortion is completely forbidden.

Twenty years ago, that would have been the plot of a far-fetched dystopian novel.

This is a direct attack on women & gays. How anyone with a working critical-thinking faculty could construe it otherwise escapes me.

Because these twisted things/concepts are sold as oh-so-progressive "LGBTQ+", "pro-LGBTQ+" for "LGBTQ+ people"

I think it’s wonderful that Target is guaranteeing that at least 50% of the women sewing these products in Chinese sweatshops identify as queer. That’s real progress.

Dors Target offer a whole body binding option?

LOL! Women are about to lose the right to safe and legal abortions, and are instead excited about mass-produced clothing designed to flatten their breasts and imitate bulges!

feminists should burn these things en masse in Target parking lots.

Society conditions women to hate their bodies.

Self-flagellation, excessive fasting, eating disorders, self-mutilation, plastic surgery ...

This binding/mastectomy trend is the latest in a centuries-old list.

This is a Godsend for 1000s of DLers and their moobs.

R85 if only the advocates of prostitution & porn could grasp that...

This twenty year old Onion article needs to be updated to include women who are empowered by no longer wanting to be women!

Target is scum. Boycott target. Target sports homophobia and gay conversations therapy by another name. Fuck target.

[quote] Target sports homophobia and gay conversations therapy by another name.

Could you translate this into English please?

I think archery is very Gay friendly?

[quote]I was thinking last night ... what a country we're about to live in, where elective mastectomies are a-ok, but elective abortion is completely forbidden.

I'm in Britain where elective mastectomies are championed by the progressive left. The same people who want to ban private healthcare in the UK are actively fundraising for British females to travel to Florida where they can "yeet the teet". The same people who want to nationalise evil pharmaceutical companies think it's great that kids are given puberty blockers.

The doctor in the link regularly shares photos of her topless clients after their double mastectomy - the number who have scars from self harming are not low. But she's just an hard working doctor helping mentally distressed people live their truth through life saving surgery.

Jest use tayp

Will Target perform liposuction on site too?

R92 Dr. Gallagher looks dead behind the eyes, which is how I’m reconciling myself to how she could possibly agree to perform such senseless horrors on young women. Hopefully she doesn’t have and never has children.

Did these parents by the "Yeet the teet" t-shirts from Target?

A shit ton of tats, to hide cutting scars perhaps ?

They can chop off the tits but the gut and hips still scream LADY.

The blubbery flab that bulges out under all of that compression is a nice touch.

R92, she’s evil

I'm a former track & field athlete, so I knew a lot of girl runners. Compression tops have been a thing for years, but typically only busty girls wore them and only when working out/competing.

I tried to find information online regarding the safety of using a chest binder and I couldn’t find much other than some articles that state the risks are only what is reported by people wearing them which is a red flag.

Chest binding needs to be studied for risks and potential complications before allowing the practice and sale of these products to the general public especially when targeting minors.

If girls are too stupid to fall for this shit, let them deal with the consequences r102

Vagina bearers are useless to gay men. They don’t have a cock…who cares what happens to them.

R101 This is not the same, the compression bras used by female athletes is to reduce bounce in high impact activity, they are not designed to flatten the bust in the way a chest binder is and I can see how would try to pass it off as a simple compression garment when that is not the case.

Compression bras are uncomfortable for long periods and most women can’t wait to take them off, actually that applies to all bras.

LOL! Women now have men telling them this in public, but still think cutting off their tits makes them men!

I don't care about Target but I hate that the Democratic Party is so in lock step with the trans movement. Everytime I hear a Dem pol say birthing people instead of women, it makes me hate them. Hey, Democrats stop worrying about the 1% of the population this affects and worry about the rest of us.

Also unless trans people have genital surgery I don't think they should be treated as a different gender. They're basically cross dressers not trans people.

Wait, aren’t extra large Ace bandages created just for this?

R71: "The world is changing and it makes me so mad!"

Oh, honey... There's nothing new (or "progressive") about capitalizing on internalized misogyny.

Changing, yes, but into what??

[quote]"The Queer Liberation Movement Was Led by Trans Women of Color" - historically that isn't accurate at all.

History has officially been rewritten, thanks to the concerted efforts of LGBTQIA2S+ organizations, mainstream media outlets and social media mobs.

all of this trans shit reeks of heterosexual basic bitchness.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

R112 Do those work for less them optimally endowed boys as well?

[quote]Do those work for less them optimally endowed boys as well?

They come in adult sizes, too, so your five-year-old can feel like a budding John Holmes.

[quote] Vagina bearers are useless to gay men. They don’t have a cock…who cares what happens to them.

Who’ll give birth to the fresh crop of twinks for you to see out your Elder years, or the future hot young male nurse/aide you’d ideally like in your nursing home, if not women?

We don’t yet have widespread publically-available and affordable technology to grow babies in pods or to facilitate mpreg, so you’ll have to put up with us a while longer..

My tits give me dysphoria and make me want to kill myself!!!!

Also, YOU MUST FUCK ME IN MY PUSSY OR YOU'RE A TRANSPHOBE!!!!!!!!!

The word 'NO' is transphobic.

Gay men will be useless when AI creates and implements all art and design and fashion. Society will no longer need gay men at all, so they'll just turn us into girls when we're young to save us the trouble of having to grow up gay in a firmly heterosexual world.

Does Target sell purple wigs?

Wouldn't a super-tight tube top do the same thing (and be chic to boot?)

R101 totally not the same as chest binding, which is what this is being advertised as, directly. It's one thing to squish the boobs temporarily so they don't flop around everywhere, quite another to squish them down for all of time. Also I think the non-tape binders are more restrictive.

R120 that tube top says "look at my tits! I'm a patriotic hot slut", not "don't look at my tits, I'm ashamed of them because I want to be male!"

Bind Your Boobs for America!

Chop off your tits for Trump!

I just got the mental image of fat hillbilly women tossing Trump their tits and him weighing them in each hand, R124.

Great, I needed some early Christmas present ideas. I will get some for my grandmother, mother and sisters.

Oh Yentl just look what you started

According to the ladies in my office, The Target stores in the Atlanta area barely even have plus size clothing in their stores.

And they only seem to hire young people.

Tube tops, sports bras, and compression bras are not tight enough to be a binder.

I don't think you guys understand the difference.

All three above have some type of structuring inside (light padding or heavy material) that keeps the girls in place where they are. The bottom elastic of the sports bra also supports the girls like the underwire of a real bra does.

Binders are not supporting the boobies from the bottom upwards: they are squishing them into your chest (painfully). Sports bras et al stop your boobs from going up and down while you're running, but you still have a nice shape. Binders obliterate any shape because they are trying to hide the fact that you have boobs.

Delusional

I’ve always thought it’d be fun to have a nice rack, or the female equivalent of jutting pecs.

I heard if you have huge breasts, men will just buy you new electronics.

Awesome!

WTF R131??

[quote]and for another thing, it was led primarily by gay men and lesbians, not transvestites.

Give us names.

[quote]Hey, Democrats stop worrying about the 1% of the population this affects and worry about the rest of us.

They’re not even 1%.

[quote]LOL! Women now have men telling them this in public, but still think cutting off their tits makes them men

Telling them what?

Forget the binders and place them in strait jackets.

[quote] feminists should burn these things en masse in Target parking lots.

You can only burn fabrics that catch fire.

All of these poly fabrics just melt.

Jesus. This mom is celebrating this for her non-binary kid.

Commie trannies support it for kids. It’s like getting your first training bra. Awwww.

lol. Freak show.

R134 Henry Gerber, Harry Hay, Dale Jennings, Stormé DeLarverie, Harvey Milk, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, Bruce Voeller, etc. etc. - there are quite a few more. Now, it's difficult to even find real histories of the gay rights movement that aren't called the LGBTQ+ rights movement and center trans folx above the much larger numbers of gay men and lesbians that all contributed over time.

Anyone who uses the word kiddos deserves to be knifed. Just like anyone who says doggo should be drawn and quartered.

So violent, r140.

R139 at some point there will (I hope) be a reckoning when people look back on this time in society and think, "what have I done??"

Maybe don't put mentally ill men on a shit ton of estrogen???

That doesn't seem medically sound.

Are those Target models @ R141. When they put out the casting call did it say, "the uglier the better"?

"I guess it makes sense having abortion soon to be illegal again in the US, since it seems "queer" is also taking gays and lesbians back to the 1950s where many same-sex-attracted people dated (and married) the opposite sex because they were pretending to be something they weren't."

What's taking gays and lesbians back to the 50s is Republican gays like you who vote for politicians who hate us

"What's next? Foot binders?"

Not the same thing. But you knew that. The Milo gays have nothing to offer but trolling

Oh for chrissakes, if someone wants to buy one, what's it to me?

"what's it to me?"

Exactly, r149. This is just people who want to change.

You CAN change!

Will you?

You know what? Who gives a flying fuck. If someone wants to bind their bust or put a sock in their crotch… I really don’t care. Why do you OP. You don’t like it? Then don’t do it. How’s that?

[quote]Social contagion and pressure is a thing

Mass hysteria, especially prevalent among teenage girls.

R151: "You know what? Who gives a flying fuck."

Um, I'm guessing women? You know, the people whose bodies have been policed and objectified by males since... forever? Are they allowed to analyze this sudden phenomenon of tens of thousands of young girls rejecting womanhood, or is that against your rules, charlie?

Charlie will check with Barbra for her opinion, and then get back to us.

R147 your total lack of any sort of awareness or understanding of the issues aside, I am a lifelong Democrat, and I and many others like me do not agree with the weirdly authoritarian turn that the party and progressives in general have taken the past ten years when it is leading to a resurgence in homophobia (much of it from progressives!), erosion of women's sex-based rights, and medicalizing children.

But I know it's impossible for you trolls to argue the point since this shit is indefensible except amongst those indoctrinated info gender religion, so your only defense is "lalalalala! Not happening! Sex no longer exists! Science means whatever we want! Boris troll / bigot / anti-trans / freeper!"

So you can keep your stupid and lazy ad hominem attacks to yourself, since this bullying "no debate!" strategy of trans activists isn't working anymore.

Blocking the trans activist trolls, they have nothing of value to contribute other than name-calling.

Anyone who uses the word kiddos deserves to be knifed. Just like anyone who says doggo should be drawn and quartered.

r143 Ditto for anyone who uses the word "trans kids"

R148 🤣 LMAO "not the same thing" it OBVIOUSLY is you dummy!!! You're twisting yourself in knots to try to explain why binding one body part is good and progressive but binding another is bad and Republican. You are a certified partisan and I pray for you lmao

The chest binder will take care of business upstairs, but what about the squeezebox down below?

Mama's got a squeeze box

Daddy never sleeps at night

R159 stuff an eggplant in it, it's that simple!

Or try the new patented F2MDicklusion (tm), crafted of the finest hemp and plastics!

[QUOTE] Target Will Start Selling Chest Binders For The First Time

Will they be located near the dildos and butt plugs?

Target's try hard attempts at scoring woke points are so cringy. They have a section of every store dedicated to BLM. All the clothes are designed and produced by POC with "black is beautiful" messaging. I never see anyone shopping in that section though. It's always empty.......tumbleweeds and crickets.

[QUOTE] Will they be located near the dildos and butt plugs?

No, they're next to the nipple clamps and spermicidal jelly.

R263 they have also had "Black-Owned Businesses" as the first option on their online store since BLM two years ago. It's definitely cringey. Curious how much money they've lost.

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