“shows us your boobs”
they shout for a laugh,
a pub crawl,
a street brawl,
not funny by half…
I’ll lift off my hair
and lift up my top,
then you’ll blush,
your friends hush,
’cause your joke’s a flop…
I am very happy with being me, probably happier than most, but one thing that I still find hard is the “get your tits out” joke (and I have also been a party to other women who know I had a mastectomy joking that they “flash” their cleavage!). I remember a long time ago a young girl having chemotherapy and she would come into the pub I worked in and literally get a laugh out of taking her hair off -much water has passed under the bridge since and I wish her more well than she will know, but I admired her pluck and do still… It is assumptions that are the problem, and I wish I had more guts, but then, just imagine if I had…