3943...Calgary The Magnificent

I haven't been since the Jimmy Carter was POTUS but what I read and hear about Calgary is pretty impressive.

Add this to the list.

Reported on Milkman Unlimited by Emma Harding is a warm story of a radio station contest gone great. The contest, put on by 90.3 AMP Radio was called "Breast Summer Ever". You could nominate yourself to win a new set through the radio station. Out of the many who wanted work done on their chest 90.3 AMP Radio narrowed the field down to ten and let visitors to its website decide.

The prize was and is a 10,000.00 dollar breast augmentation and, no matter what anyone says, women have a lot invested psychologically in their boobs and the pitches of the ten finalists attested to that.

Of course all this was done over the protest of politically correct, the no fun police and holier than thou groups of haters such as the Calgary chapter of FWAP [Fat Womyn Against Progress]. Ms. Harding wrote that "The contest was called 'sexist' and 'discriminatory' by many. The radio station was chastised for demeaning women and criticized for perpetuating sexual stereotypes. The outcry was loud and made headlines in Calgary and around the world."

The station trudged on, put its ten finalists on line, each with a pitch. The winner, with, in a ten team race, an astounding 76 per cent of the vote, was Avery.

Avery, from memory, is blonde, lithe, mid twenties and cute. "Avery was born male, but today lives as a transgendered person. She has a female brain, trapped inside a male body. Through expensive and difficult surgery, Avery is outwardly becoming the woman she knows that she is inside. 'In Canada, I am not given any health care for being transgendered and I have to pay out of my own pocket for these procedures', Avery told AMP Radio. 'Having breasts would help complete me as a person.'"

Wow, if that doesn't touch your heart and help fill in the public service aspect of community radio I don't know what will.

"Despite all of the criticism, the AMP Radio "Breast Summer Ever" contest actually changed someone's life in a deeply positive way."

Take that haters.

WFDS