Signal Boost and Your Reactions?

Found via venturous:

There's a radio station in Alberta, Canada that's currently running a contest called "The Breast Summer Ever" in which the winner receives a boob job. Yeah, exactly. You may all take a moment to roll your eyes and/or gag.

Now that that's out of your system, listen to this: One of the finalists is a transwoman named Avery. She has no health care options that cover transgender issues where she lives and has to pay out of pocket, so winning this contest would help her out tremendously. Winners are decided by popular vote, so if you like, you can go here and vote for her. I don't know whether or not multiple votes count...?


While you're there, you can watch short videos of all ten finalists talking about who they are and why they want boob jobs. If anyone has the time to kill, I'd love to know if your reactions match mine. Personally? I think about half the people need to be dragged out into the street and publicly flogged. Especially the, "oh, I didn't realize what having a baby would do to my boobs, tee-hee!" woman. Grr.

I'll hold off on a longer "What is wrong with people?!" rant for now and see what you all have to say. ;)


Also -- yeah, I owe a bunch of comments and emails again. I had planned to take care of them last night, but then I ended up spending something like two and a half hours figuring out why my laptop suddenly wouldn't connect to the internet. (I did solve the problem in the end.) I'll be getting on top of all of that shortly.