Angelina Jolie cuts her boobs off to save her life; douchebags unite to lament.

[Suu]

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/05/14/angelina_jolie_breast_cancer_surgery_the_actress_discusses_beauty_after.html

Today, Angelina Jolie published a piece in the New York Times about her decision to undergo a preventive double mastectomy last month. As a carrier of a gene mutation called BRCA1, Jolie cut her chances of contracting breast cancer from 87 percent to under 5 percent by undergoing the procedure. I felt so honored to read Jolie's detailed first-person account of her experience, as well as her advocacy for all the women around the world to gain access to the too-expensive tests and procedures that have empowered her to fight for her own life. Those warm feelings were soon deflated by some of the unexpectedly nasty commentary that pooled around her story. Commenters snarked that Jolie had received a "boob job." Some suggested that her medical emergency was just a tabloid ruse to cover up elective breast implants. Others morbidly asked after the whereabouts of the breast tissue removed from her body. "RIP Angelina's boobs" was a typical ignorant comment. Said one commenter on a Jezebel post about the op-ed, "How many guys stopped reading as soon as they realized Angelina Jolie has no breasts—she's dead to me!"

[East Coast Hustle]

I'm just lamenting the fact that ANYBODY gives even half a shit about anything Angelina Jolie does. Why is she even still famous?

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

She was in a miniseries about SEGUIN.

This tells me everything I need to know about Angelina.

[Suu]

Like I told you on Facebook, I could give two fucking shits about her, but the fact that a woman, any woman, did this to potentially save her own life is courageous. This could have been any celebrity. If it was Scarlet Johansson or God forbid, Christina Hendricks, the reaction wouldn't be any different, it would probably be worse, ESPECIALLY with Hendricks.

She had an 87% chance of getting breast cancer, and considering 1-in-4 women get it anyway, those are really shitty odds.

I'm sorry, but with those odds? Take my fucking tits. I'd rather live without them then deal with the years of chemo and radiation it's going to take to even try to fight it. It's an easy out, a shitty out, but an easy one that's probably cheaper in the long run. I've seen what chemo does to people. No thank you. Take my tits. Thanks. And if my boyfriend or any other man lamented the loss of my chest pillows, fuck them for existing.

[LMNO]

She's done some good stuff.  When I read that article this morning, I was impressed that someone in the "Hollywood System" would be rational enough to go for a preventative masectomy.  I also thought, "douchebags are gonna talk shit about her tits."

[Suu]

She's done some good stuff.  When I read that article this morning, I was impressed that someone in the "Hollywood System" would be rational enough to go for a preventative masectomy.  I also thought, "douchebags are gonna talk shit about her tits."

Precisely. I'm no fan of the woman, but for fuck's sake, she elected to remove her breasts as a preventative measure, when she probably could have afforded the best care if she did end up with cancer. For that, she wins a gold star. Like her or hate her.

[EK WAFFLR]

She's done some good stuff.  When I read that article this morning, I was impressed that someone in the "Hollywood System" would be rational enough to go for a preventative masectomy.  I also thought, "douchebags are gonna talk shit about her tits."

This. Hat off to her.

She was brilliant in Girl, Interrupted.

[East Coast Hustle]

At risk of pointing out the obvious...

what boobs?

[LMNO]

Image search "Jolie Gia"

[East Coast Hustle]

I've seen the movie.

I've also met her IRL when "Life or Something Like It" was being filmed across the parking lot from the pizzeria I worked in at the time.

Not that her boobs were big in Gia (they're not, but they ARE strangely lopsided), but even that looks like it must have been FX because IRL she appeared to be no bigger than a b-cup.

Mind you, I'm not a "boob guy". Nor do I think the size of her boobs has any bearing on her merits as a person. But given that she seems to have neither boobs nor merit these days I'm just wondering why anyone cares about this.

[Suu]

At risk of pointing out the obvious...

what boobs?

At risk of countering with obvious...

Small boobs don't stop the cancers.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

It's a shitty thing to have happen, but I don't see her as courageous or any of that.

She was presented with two shitty options. She took the one that gave her a better chance of survival.

[East Coast Hustle]

There is one interesting question to be asked here:

If she were still an up-and-coming actress whose career was largely dependent on her looks, would she have made the same choice?

[Suu]

There is one interesting question to be asked here:

If she were still an up-and-coming actress whose career was largely dependent on her looks, would she have made the same choice?

It's hard to say. The woman was batshit when she was younger, so probably.

The real question to ask, is if all the fucktards bitching about this on the internet had this choice presented to a loved one, how would they actually react to their wife or girlfriend opting to get a mastectomy rather than fight to save the tissue with expensive, damaging treatments?

Is it just because she's a celebrity they've jacked off to that matters? Or are they that attached to breasticles to understand that "Saving the ta-tas" isn't the answer, it's "saving the woman?" I mean, I had a douchebag ditch me because I had to have a piece of my cervix cut out, and he wasn't going to be able to have sex with me for a month. No, fuck the fact that I had cancer, he can't get laid, so that's more important.

THAT is the point of this thread, not bitching about Angelina Jolie, her 52 Kenyan babies, and the vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood she used to wear around her neck. The reactions that people are having to news that her tits are gone.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

The people saying that shit don't know her personally anyway. They're talking about a commodity, which is FUCKED UP, yes, but it's the way she's always been presented.