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[Amy SF]

Sadly, she's being criticized for her decision even on a breast cancer forum. It seems that some women there feel that since Angelina didn't actually have cancer, she had no right to speak about her experience; no right to even have been able to be tested and make the choices she did. Apparently prophylactic measures are bad because everyone should have to go through the hell of cancer treatment.

Boggles the mind.

Sad.

 

[Spang]

Some dude at Natural News wrote this disgusting article in response to Angelina Jolie's preventive procedure.

 

[thefadedone]

Sadly, she's being criticized for her decision even on a breast cancer forum. It seems that some women there feel that since Angelina didn't actually have cancer, she had no right to speak about her experience; no right to even have been able to be tested and make the choices she did. Apparently prophylactic measures are bad because everyone should have to go through the hell of cancer treatment.

Boggles the mind.

WTF? That's horrible.

 

[thefadedone]

Some dude at Natural News wrote this disgusting article in response to Angelina Jolie's preventive procedure.

Ugh just another example of a public figure making irresponsible health claims. Then again, it is Natural News.,

 

[ledboots]

Ugh just another example of a public figure making irresponsible health claims. Then again, it is Natural News.,

And they are.selling supplements, etc to ward off cancer at the end of the article...

 

[das_nut]

Some dude at Natural News wrote this disgusting article in response to Angelina Jolie's preventive procedure.

Natural News is the Fox News of the Left.

 

[Envy]

I don't know if there are more people getting riled up about people caring about that than there are actual people who give it a second thought at all or not.

 

[Freesia]

Just crappy how they are treating her. I think it is amazing that she wants to stay healthy and has made a decision which was what was best for her and her family, and it is incredible that anybody would have any type of problem with it.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I'm really getting annoyed by the criticism within some of the vegan community. Many people saying it was extreme and it could've been prevented by going vegan in the first place.

 

[Alice-Bee]

I am so shocked by all the comments about Angelina, you know the ones (from men) saying now shes had the op her husband/partner whatever Brad is will be looking elsewhere for sex. Like thats all she was to him...like a woman NEEDS breasts to have sex. Shaking with rage! But even more scary was the comments I saw which showed how little people actually know about it all. I think one girls comment on Tumblr was along the lines of 'Why cut your boobs off?? If you thought you were going to have a heart attack, would you cut your heart out' Like seriously? And all this 'cut her boobs off' like she fricking hacked them off with a steak knife. urgh people are dumb dumb dumb.

 

[yakherder]

I don't even understand what people are debating. You'd think she went out and gave someone else breast cancer to protect herself judging by the backlash. Alas, what she did has absolutely no effect on anyone other than herself, yet people still find a reason to complain. They're upset over weaknesses in the health care system, I understand that. This has nothing to do with her, though. She didn't put that system in place, nor does she take any action to keep it in place. She simply happened to have another option. Blaming her for that isn't rational if the alternative would have been to sit around waiting to get cancer, knowing she had an alternative, just for the sake of satisfying a bunch of chronically jealous, insecure complainers.

It's also not a rare procedure by any means. She's getting the attention because they're choosing to give it to her. When you can't walk out your front door without it ending up on the news, naturally you will have to publicly defend any major action you take including but not limited to preventive surgery. She isn't trying to get attention, it just comes with the territory. Not speaking about it when fans (and non-fans) are curious about the details of her life would have earned her just as much condemnation.

 

[Amy SF]

I do think a part of the criticism is that breasts are so sexualized that removing them desexualizes the person. This is especially true for a beautiful actress such as A.J. Men look at her and want to **** her. Women look at her and want to be her. Now all of a sudden she's this sexless creature because she took off her boobs.

 

[Forster]

I do think a part of the criticism is that breasts are so sexualized that removing them desexualizes the person. This is especially true for a beautiful actress such as A.J. Men look at her and want to **** her. Women look at her and want to be her. Now all of a sudden she's this sexless creature because she took off her boobs.

Maybe, I have my doubts though. The problem with AJ as I see it is she already has been labeled by the media as "slightly crazy" therefore anything she does is slightly crazy whether it is or not. In this case it makes perfectly rational sense.

 

[Amy SF]

Maybe, I have my doubts though. The problem with AJ as I see it is she already has been labeled by the media as "slightly crazy" therefore anything she does is slightly crazy whether it is or not. In this case it makes perfectly rational sense.

But I'm sure they would have had the same negative reaction if any other celebrity, one who was considered pretty sane, had done this. It would have been even more shocking if a "normal" celebrity had had this done.

 

[Forster]

But I'm sure they would have had the same negative reaction if any other celebrity, one who was considered pretty sane, had done this. It would have been even more shocking if a "normal" celebrity had had this done.

Probably true.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Now all of a sudden she's this sexless creature because she took off her boobs.

This is something every woman thinks about when faced with mastectomy, sadly. Some of the comments about her worth as a woman being tied to her breasts is heartbreaking.

Unless she made a dramatic change in size with her implants, she is going to appear pretty much the same to most people. If she wanted to, she probably could have kept all this a secret and no one would have known the difference.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I have luckily missed reading all these awful comments about Angelina Jolie. There was a celebrity singer in the UK who had a mastectomy for the same reason last year.
Gateshead Liberty X star praises Angelina Jolie - ITV News

 

[Amy SF]

Obviously she went public with it because she hoped that other women would feel empowered enough to get tested and do what needs to be done if they test positive.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

I wonder if Christina Applegate was on the receiving end of all this negativity when she had a bilateral mastectomy? She actually had cancer in one breast, but also tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation.

Maybe it was ok for her since she had cancer. But crazy for AJ because she didn't. :think:

 

[Alice-Bee]

Difference is that Lib X singer made every step of her journey public and lost alot of sympathy by being very self pitying etc. even before she knew aswell.