The trick is to make something extremely invasive, disgusting and mutilating sound very innocuous? Tits? Yeet 'em. Delete them like you delete an e-mail. No repercussions of anything.
Now imagine being a 13-year-old girl who is insecure and uncomfortable with boys looking at her chest.
It's a literal descriptor. You know words made from the same roots:
Circum(ference) - around
(in)cision - cut
The word basically means 'cut around', which is a literal descriptor of the process.
I'm not defending the practice, but the only reason to think it's been given a nickname to hide the reality of the act is extreme ignorance of how language works.
The trick is to make something extremely invasive, disgusting and mutilating sound very innocuous? Tits? Yeet 'em. Delete them like you delete an e-mail. No repercussions of anything.
Now imagine being a 13-year-old girl who is insecure and uncomfortable with boys looking at her chest.
It's monstrous.
It's a literal descriptor. You know words made from the same roots:
Circum(ference) - around
(in)cision - cut
The word basically means 'cut around', which is a literal descriptor of the process.
I'm not defending the practice, but the only reason to think it's been given a nickname to hide the reality of the act is extreme ignorance of how language works.
Ah but that's okay because women get their cosmetics and it "looks better".