Flat Is Where It's At

Just in time for Breast Ironing Awareness Month comes this article from Cameroon; a nation whose ways are different from ours, but just as valid:

A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing".

This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear.

Statistics show that 26% of Cameroonian girls at puberty undergo it, as many mothers believe it protects their daughters from the sexual advances of boys and men who think children are ripe for sex once their breasts begin to grow.

The most widely used instrument to flatten the breasts is a wooden pestle, used for pounding tubers in the kitchen. Heated bananas and coconut shells are also used.

Favorite Cameroonian expressions:
"Built like a brick basket of tubers," and "pounding tubers."

Sadly enough, this is done by mothers in an attempt to keep their girls in school.

(Via Greg Gutfeld.)