tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post6886481044696581615..comments2024-03-22T05:55:48.117-04:00Comments on The Pervocracy: BR CA.Cliff Pervocracyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-14802440185624999072012-03-22T07:09:26.557-04:002012-03-22T07:09:26.557-04:00Re: happy-clappy "yay, we're fighting can...Re: happy-clappy "yay, we're fighting cancer!" style activism, please check this out:<br /><br />http://gaylesulik.com/Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-14283674164365971302009-09-16T12:31:31.651-04:002009-09-16T12:31:31.651-04:00Anonymous - Yeah, but "pink ribbon disease&qu...Anonymous - Yeah, but "pink ribbon disease" also gives at least some money to a worthy cause.<br /><br />And what if a woman <i>herself</i> would like to cover up the effects of her cancer and treatment? It's not all about society, some people may (bizarrely!) have a certain attachment to their own hair and breasts. And it <i>is</i> a dis, a big dehumanizing one, to tell them that they don't really want that, it's just society making them think it.Cliff Pervocracyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080142422250604406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-4061359210625304362009-09-16T12:11:58.552-04:002009-09-16T12:11:58.552-04:00I think Twisty offers a perspective that I have ne...I think Twisty offers a perspective that I have never considered before. I have always been wary of all the pink ribbon crap because I think companies use peoples personal experience with the disease to sell more product. I don't think Twisty says covering or disguising your breast cancer battle wounds as a dis to the women but a comment on why when someone has been on the brink of death should they feel the need/encouraged to cover of up there journey to make everyone else (society) feel better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-70129875223186012632009-09-15T18:09:27.256-04:002009-09-15T18:09:27.256-04:00The 'don't tell people to fight (breast ca...The 'don't tell people to fight (breast cancer, sexual assault, depression, a lousy marriage, what-have-you) because you're implying that people who <i>don't</i> fight are lesser' meme pisses me off <i>so bad</i> and you see it all over the place. No, not everybody can fight, and those that can't shouldn't be belittled for it--but nobody actually goes around calling people who die of breast cancer losers. Nobody that I've ever heard of, anyway. And people who <i>can</i> fix their problems ought to be encouraged to do so.<br /><br />God, I'm turning into a Republican in my old age.aebhelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-906011787530659672009-09-14T13:12:33.079-04:002009-09-14T13:12:33.079-04:00"I wish they would say what is being done to ..."I wish they would say what is being done to 'fight' cancer. They make it sound like we're paying a guy to run out and punch tumors."<br /><br />My read was that's the party Twisty was really twisted about: there's all sorts of talk about "the cure" but not so much talk about what that mean, what the consequence are, what your chances are, and (the biggest deal I thought) what's going to *happen* to you if you've got it.<br /><br />I've followed a couple of bloggers through their breast cancers, and reconstructive surgeries after. And you don't get any sense that there's anything "pink" about it. And, as Twisty was saying, even there there's not a lot of the nuts-and-bolts business about how to sleep without blocking your drainage tubes. Or why you'd need them. And how *long* you typically need them.<br /><br />Two things I'll say about how militant Twisty gets about the hair and reconstruction thing. One is how intensely it seems to hit people to lose either their breasts during surgery, and their hair during chemo. The other is how intense people's reactions (including children, family members, and random passers by) are if you don't cover it up. Which is something the vague pinkiness of Komen foundation support-building activity *doesn't* do to help women where they evidently could really use support.<br /><br />That she thinks it's a conspiracy by "them" just means she's a nut. (That's not to say there's not more money in the system for "the cure" than for prevention -- that's true for all kinds of illnesses. "I don't want to be sick" is way more focusing than "I don't want to *get* sick.")<br /><br />figleaffigleafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01440982008394316977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-51492034335088258722009-09-14T10:43:17.053-04:002009-09-14T10:43:17.053-04:00Hey, I'm all for colorectal cancer research su...Hey, I'm all for colorectal cancer research support. That's an unpleasant form of cancer.<br /><br />And hey, breast cancer has got to suck, but it's really hard living without your asshole.<br /><br />I've got a sibling studying medicene over at the University of Iowa. There's a lot of research into experimental cancer therapies going on over there, and a pretty sizable percentage of the best and brightest in biology that go on to study cancer treatments.<br /><br />I'll ask if they're involved with any of the breast cancer foundations. You might be paying a graduate student do develop a treatment that really brings the pain to cancer cells. We can punch cancer with science.Noahnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-69343649726360879442009-09-14T10:05:52.712-04:002009-09-14T10:05:52.712-04:00Twisty can always be counted on to take things too...Twisty can always be counted on to take things too far, but she's more restrained here than usual. She does have to disregard parts of Julia's account of her mastectomy/hysterectomy in order to make her argument, but that's nothing new.<br /><br />For anyone who might not have visited it via Twisty's site and isn't too squeamish, Julia's account is extremely cool. http://www.cancervacation.com/home.htmlBrunohttp://www.cancervacation.com/home.htmlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2770580070906411828.post-67405330334546352642009-09-14T03:31:57.733-04:002009-09-14T03:31:57.733-04:00Oh yes. My First Rule is Eat Something and it has ...Oh yes. My First Rule is Eat Something and it has the force of a Prime Directive. Doesn't even matter if you're not hungry. Stops a lot of things getting worse, sometimes. But then we are all just toddlers with self awareness, really.xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09141382551788605401noreply@blogger.com