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CrazyKitties
CrazyKitties Member Posts: 180
edited June 2014 in Mental Health: Because Cancer Doesn't Just Affect Your Breasts

Has it occurred to anyone that when a man gets prostate cancer no one says,"Oh great, you lucky bastard, you get a new wahoo!", like they do to us when they say, "Oh, lucky you! You get new tatas!"

Or how about this---

"What did you do you to get breast cancer ? You should have lost 10 pounds. Are there chemicals in your makeup you could have avoided? You should have eaten more soy. You need to start doing yoga."

To a man,"Oh, there are so many new treatments available. I am sure you didn't stick your wahoo in the wrong places, and you're certainly not fat, you drink alot? Oh well, that's just your cute Irish uncle in their somewhere!"

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  • karen1956
    karen1956 Member Posts: 6,503
    edited April 2011

    so well said!!!  I love it!!!

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  • Lena
    Lena Member Posts: 1,036
    edited April 2011

    Crazy, it hadn't occurred to me originally (I've only met one man who has prostate cancer so my exposure may be limited), but now that you mention it, yeah, sorta. I do get the "Oh, there are so many new treatments available" line for my BC, though (from folks who haven't had BC). I wish those people would just keep their f***ing mouths shut because they know nothing about the damn SEs which make the "extra life" not worth living.

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  • CrazyKitties
    CrazyKitties Member Posts: 180
    edited April 2011

    Hi Lena, and YOU with stage 4 have probably heard the most insensitive shit EVER. I am so sorry for your side effects and for the hell you have been through with your treatments. You are in my thoughts, I wish I could hug you through cyberspace! xoxoxo

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