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Dear Angelina, allow me to get this off my chest
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at 06:44PM 
I'm about to wax exceedingly snark-castic. If that has even a one-percent chance of offending you, kthnxbai.
You have been warned.
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OK. Wow.
Have you, like, heard?
Angelina Jolie -- nutcase extraordinaire -- is the newly-minted hero of all womandom.
Because she had a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction done by what I am sure were the finest surgical teams money can buy.
And she broke her big "news" the day after Mother's Day, just about the time the hot water in which Dear Leader finds himself, reached his shifty eyeballs.
Why would Angelina deem it necessary to publicize her very private health information at all?
She failed to tell her own father. He found out with the rest of us.
And Mr. Voight -- now in the loop -- is so proud. Just speechless with admiration for his little girl's bravery.
Is the mere knowledge that a fabulously wealthy, relatively young, undeniably narcissistic, consistently immoral woman had both breasts removed in order to avoid contracting breast cancer, supposed to help someone?
Anyone? Bueller?
It's not like this type of preemptive surgery is a new concept or anything. I've been hearing and reading of women making this momentous decision for years.
But from the media hype and fawning which began the millisecond Angelina's New York Slime Op-Ed hit newsstands both real and virtual, one would think she had not only pioneered the idea, but that she is the only woman who ever had the nerve to go under the knife.
Let's get one thing clear: Angelina Jolie decided on the double mastectomy in order to save not the world, or her sistahs, but her own skin.
And while that's a perfectly good reason, it doesn't make her a hero.
Angelina Jolie can afford any test, any treatment, any procedure, any length of recuperation, and any combination of all of the above that you and I can imagine.
What she spent having the test that purportedly "proved" she had an eighty-seven percent chance of dying of breast cancer and a fifty percent chance of dying of ovarian cancer, didn't even rise to the level of chump change for Angelina.
Several thousand dollars dumped into lots of ordinary, hard-working people's bank accounts, however, would make a difference.
Take me for example. Even if I had the money, I would not have the luxury of spending it on the BRCA1 test.
Also I have news for Angelina, global darling and brightest-ever incarnation of Wonder Woman: Girl, you're still going to die of something. And you don't know what, and you don't know when.
And afterwards you will meet your Creator, for which inevitable experience there is no genetic test, no treatment modality, no foolproof charm, no exotic remedy, no preemptive strike.
It's just going to be: Did you believe on the finished work of My Son Jesus Christ for eternal life, or didn't you?
Period.
I hope Angelina-oh-goddess-of-all-womanhood fares well on that day but I have my doubts.
If my saying that bothers you, please do click out.
Because if weird-gelina were ever going to be my hero -- highly unlikely -- on any point, it most certainly would not be because she had the "courage" to submit to multiple completely elective surgeries.
People undergo surgeries every day, often in the midst of dire and frightening health crises. They put faith in doctors; they endure pain and inconvenience; they smile through their tears and fears.
If they are fortunate enough to have loving families, they hope and pray and grieve with those devoted individuals.
Countless courageous women have faced, are facing now, and will face breast and ovarian cancers.
The women I admire are those who, cancer diagnosis or no cancer diagnosis, value and promote decency.
Angelina Jolie is not one of those women. Not even close.
Women of all ages need to embrace once again more than just technology. For starters, teach your daughters and granddaughters what it means to be a woman with morals.
It will serve them better in the long run than any genetic test or procedure or treatment or constellation of surgeries ever could.
And yeah. Yeah, I feel better now.
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Happy Wednesday
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Reader Comments (12)
It just shows again how warped our country is in who we (although that we doesn't include all of us!) look up to. There are so many people who deserve our respect and deserve to be called hero's or heroines, but instead the media throws this type of thing in our face.
Well said, Pirate!
Can Not Stand Ms. Jolie. Not that I pay any attention to the news any more, so thank you for solidifying my revulsion. The woman ruined my adoration of Brad Pitt, what's more, so double the trouble! The less I know of the Hollywood crowd, the happier I be.
P.S. You must feel so much better, getting AJ off your chest. Quite a weight lifted, I would think...
Narcissism and the Left seem joined at the scandal. But I digress.
What with my eschewing (gesundheit) lamestream media sources for news -- I don't do well with indoctrination talking points -- I missed this so-called 'story'. I cannot remember a time that I ever cared what ms jolie did, said, thought, or starred in.
'Prolly 'cuz there's never been a time I cared ;-)
Of course I shouldn't make a joke -- breast cancer certainly IS no joke -- but with regards to ms jolie and her self-publicized pre-emptive strike against a lack of publicity, I can only say that in Libtard Land tonight, there is mourning...two more of their boobs are missing.
Jolie has never been a good moral example for anyone. Having said that, I don't understand your attacks on her for making this surgery public. There may be people out there, women and men, who do not know about the test, the surgery. If some of the low-information voters read her article, simply because it is Jolie writing it, and learn that they have options, don't you think this is a good thing?
I can speak to this from personal experience. Many years ago I found a lump in my breast. The doctors said it was "probably" benign but of course there was no way to know for sure. I had the lump removed and yes, it was benign. But as a result of that I received another mammogram and follow up mammograms more frequently that normal checkups. I had so many microcalcifications, very dense, fibrous tissue the radiologist could not determine if there might be any cancer or not.
I under went several biopsies, needle, sterotactic and more. Stereotactic is where they drill what looks like a drill bit into your breast. Let me tell you, none of this was pleasant. The constant fear that there was cancer present, or that there was cancer present and it could not be identified weighs on your mind.
Microcalcifications. These show up as fine, white specks, similar to grains of salt. They're usually noncancerous, but certain patterns can be a sign of cancer.
The radiologists, doctors and surgeons all said that if I were there wife, they would have the preventive mastectomy. Two local surgeons wanted to remove everything, breast, skin, nipples, everything. We did our research and went to a specialist in this area for a consult. He suggested all the breast tissue in both breasts be removed, but that we preserve skin and nipple, and put in implants eventually.
This is what I did in 2001 and I have never regretted it. Others with this same situation are long dead because they did not have a doctor who would suggest this treatment, or because they were uninformed.
If Jolie is successful in informing and if lives are saved, I say good for her.
On the cost and the money, which you mention more than once, I can tell you. The procedures were not expensive, they were mostly covered by insurance because this is not a cosmetic thing, this is a life-saving thing.
As a Christian, I'm surprised at your seeming hatred at this woman and the amount of money she has and what seems like disgust at what she did to save her life. Do I like her lifestyle or morals? No. However she does, according to things I have read, donate a lot of money to children's welfare around the world.
As to her relationship with God and her eternal life, we can all pray for her. Isn't that the Christian thing to do? She now has longer time on this earth to accept Christ. Isn't that a good thing.
I am tired of all celebrities raising a toast to their illusional superiority. In fact, I'm tired of all celebrities. Period. They are people who pretend to be other people for a living. That does not bestow upon them any fountain of knowledge nor bully pulpit. They should be ashamed of their oversized egos. However, I don't begrudge them their income because they got it fair and square through capitalism.
Her Own Father Didn't Know???? How sad.....
Yep...I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out why she thought it was Our business...
And Obummer? You're right! He's up to his jewels in hot water. Wonder though, who will DO something about it AND all those crooks that need to be in ail...
hughugs
p.s. I'm sorry for the typos etc. in my comment, I should have proofed before posting. My comments was just my gut reaction, probably coming from my personal experience with this.
And an additional thought, not one doctor suggested the test to me. Perhaps it was not readily available when I had my procedure. Or perhaps they were remiss in not offering me that option. Or perhaps the test would not have mattered in my situation. I'll never know.
Debbie, I love you. xoxo
PS again:
I seem to have missed that this post was intended to be satire. If anyone was offended by my comments, sorry. Perhaps this topic is too personal for me.
Debbie what you need to remember is, the topic was never the healthcare decisions Angelina Jolie made. She can do whatever she wants and so can you, and so can I. But she did not invent this type of solution for high-risk women.The topic was she herself, and what we are being told we are "supposed" to think of her because of her healthcare decisions. It's bogus and I refuse to take it without weighing in. You know how I am.
EDIT BY THE EDITOR: "VoiceOfReason": I do not allow anonymous comments on this blog. Come back with the courage to use your FULL real name and we can talk.
FURTHER EDIT BY THE EDITOR: I've changed me mind. Just call it pirate prerogative. I think we'll talk after all.
What you call "pettiness" looks far better on me than a fake name looks on you. Anonymity is the cheap shroud of the gutless and from it always emanates the voice not of reason, but of phony superiority. And there's nothing more petty than phony superiority.
Unless you're her personal bodyguard and accountant -- highly unlikely -- you have no idea how much of her time and money Angelina Jolie has given to the "less fortunate." All you "know" is what you've read on the Internet. That doesn't make you an all-seeing eye.
Likewise you have no idea what I have done for people. But even if you're right and I'm not even a fraction of the great selfless humanitarian Angelina Jolie has been, unless you're God -- even more highly unlikely -- you don't know what I still may do.
But see, Angelina's myriad good works, or even her right to make any healthcare decision she desired, were never the issue here. The point of this post was the fawning over her by the media just because she had an elective preemptive double mastectomy -- something many unsung women far more heroic than Angelina Jolie have done, despite not being "blessed" with the money or influence bestowed upon her by Hollyweird celebrity -- to keep from getting a particular kind of cancer.
Your response further solidifies my conviction that this blog is best appreciated and should be read only by those who actually comprehend the English language.
And clearly you don't, and that's why you should "be very careful of casting stones," VOR.
~JW
FURTHER EDIT BY THE EDITOR 5/21: "VOR" ... Well, clearly comprehension of the English language does represent a challenge for you, since you don't seem to understand the meaning of "I do not allow anonymous comments on this blog." Therefore you are banned from this website.