Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
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So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists about being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.
this is exactly why i hate those “save the boobies” campaigns because they are literally ALL ABOUT THE BOOBS and they don’t give a single fuck about the person behind the pair of breasts. this is something someone is doing to protect themselves down the line to PREVENT BREAST CANCER, yet they’re getting shamed for it because OMG BOOBS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT PART EVER. no. fuck that. power to angelina jolie for doing what she thinks is best for herself and her body. you do you.
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Also, I’d say that things like “Save the Tatas!” makes it harder for men to be taken seriously when they say they have breast cancer. Men do get breast cancer, and they’ve been denied coverage because only women get breast cancer.
I feel like this kind of derails the post, but “Save the Tatas!” sucks for everyone.
Esperanza, a teenage girl with acute leukemia living in the Dominican Republic, will die if she doesn’t start chemotherapy treatments as soon as possible. But she’s nine weeks pregnant, and her country banned abortion even in cases where the mother’s life is in danger back in 2010.
And here’s yet another reason it’s stupid to outlaw abortion.
This is what pro-lifers want.
So, how does it feel pro-lifers? How does it feel to know you’ve accomplished this?
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President Obama stopped shaking hands for a moment today so that he could embrace a sobbing woman whose uninsured sister recently died of colon cancer.
But people don’t die of cancer anymore according Republican Chris Collins of NY.
What.
I keep reading all this pro birth control stuff because my friends are really into Planned Parenthood, and post their interests about it online.
But I just can’t help it: I’m not supportive of birth control. I really think it causes cancer. I…
I took the Pill for a period of six months. During those six months I had sex a few times, with the same woman. Repeat, woman.
I was not prescribed birth control because I was in danger of getting pregnant. I was prescribed the Pill because my periods were lasting three weeks out of every month I was on the rag, because they were cripplingly painful, because they were so heavy and long-lasting I was borderline-anaemic, and because I was developing PCOS, the symptoms of which can be minimised by the Pill (although it didn’t work for me, I will admit).
I have a healthy diet, exercise as frequently as my CFS will allow, have not had sex since March, and am not in an abusive relationship or indeed any relationship at all.
Please tell me again how I should just use a condom and eat less pizza.
Of course, I came off the Pill because while it helped some issues it made others worse, but that’s beside the point.Also, everything is carcinogenic nowadays. Everyone I knew who got any kind of cancer drank water at some point. WATER CAUSES CANCER!
Until you can give me hard evidence that something actually raises the chances of cancer (see also: smoking - hard evidence from scientific studies suggests it raises the rate of throat and lung cancer), I’m going to be side-eyeing the hell out of that. Especially if you claim it raises the risk of all cancers. Do you understand what cancer is? Do you understand how it works? Do you understand that it is not all the same?
What the fuck, OP.
Using their logic: Nana has had cancer twice, both times after I was born. Clearly, I caused her cancer. Specifically, my age being a multiple of nine caused her cancer.
As I have said many, many times; the most carcinogenic thing on the planet is life.
Only living things have cancer.
ad absurdum argument, there, but even so. It’s an argument used for everything anyone deems to be carcinogenic, and it’s ridiculous. You need actual studies and data and preferably some kind of theory as to why X is a carcinogen before you start throwing wild accusations around, especially if they’re meant to detract from something that can save lives. Which, hello, the Pill can. Lives, and also ovaries; for the uninitiated, when I say “the Pill is prescribed to reduce the symptoms of PCOS” I mean “the Pill can stop your ovaries from literally exploding if you have PCOS.” This really pisses me off about anti-birth-control arguments; nine times out of ten, they seem to assume the only reason to take the Pill is to stop yourself popping out babies.
Also, I’m sorry about your nana.
Luckily the cancers (breast cancer, and later uterine cancer) could be removed. Now we just have to worry about her Alzheimer’s and how she’s getting along with her live-in care.
I keep reading all this pro birth control stuff because my friends are really into Planned Parenthood, and post their interests about it online.
But I just can’t help it: I’m not supportive of birth control. I really think it causes cancer. I…
I took the Pill for a period of six months. During those six months I had sex a few times, with the same woman. Repeat, woman.
I was not prescribed birth control because I was in danger of getting pregnant. I was prescribed the Pill because my periods were lasting three weeks out of every month I was on the rag, because they were cripplingly painful, because they were so heavy and long-lasting I was borderline-anaemic, and because I was developing PCOS, the symptoms of which can be minimised by the Pill (although it didn’t work for me, I will admit).
I have a healthy diet, exercise as frequently as my CFS will allow, have not had sex since March, and am not in an abusive relationship or indeed any relationship at all.
Please tell me again how I should just use a condom and eat less pizza.
Of course, I came off the Pill because while it helped some issues it made others worse, but that’s beside the point.Also, everything is carcinogenic nowadays. Everyone I knew who got any kind of cancer drank water at some point. WATER CAUSES CANCER!
Until you can give me hard evidence that something actually raises the chances of cancer (see also: smoking - hard evidence from scientific studies suggests it raises the rate of throat and lung cancer), I’m going to be side-eyeing the hell out of that. Especially if you claim it raises the risk of all cancers. Do you understand what cancer is? Do you understand how it works? Do you understand that it is not all the same?
What the fuck, OP.
Using their logic: Nana has had cancer twice, both times after I was born. Clearly, I caused her cancer. Specifically, my age being a multiple of nine caused her cancer.
The onslaught of laws focusing on denying reproductive health care rights is a concerted campaign against women. These laws are not grounded in science or evidence-based medicine.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists believes that access to family-planning counseling and to the full array of contraceptives is a basic and essential component of preventive health care for women.
Efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides cervical cancer and mammography screening, contraception and other preventive care to millions of women, are egregious and disproportionately hurt poor women.
As physicians for women’s health care, ob-gyns see firsthand the havoc that punitive ideology-based laws have on the health of women and their families. These ill-conceived laws are based on the pretext of protecting health, but they do anything but that.
Mandating that women be legally forced to undergo transvaginal ultrasound or any other medical procedure against their will and against their physician’s judgment is an outrageous violation of patient autonomy and the confidential doctor-patient relationship. Decreasing access to family planning and contraception will only increase unintended pregnancies and negatively affect family and societal health.
Politicians were not elected to, nor should they, legislate the practice of medicine or dictate the parameters of the doctor-patient relationship. Our message to politicians is unequivocal: Get out of our exam rooms.
JAMES T. BREEDEN
President, American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
[NB: more people than just cis women are affected by anti-choice laws.]
