Jolie did not have cancer - as O’Donnell did not have cancer. What makes you think I don’t know anyone in my family or among my friends who hasn’t had this loathe disease? To mutilate oneself in the hope one can avoid cancer is strange to me. I’m not backing down so don’t post to me if you want me to change my mind. I’m also against any kind of mutilation of the body of people who think they “are born in the wrong body.”
It’s a public message board. You’re free to criticize the choice that this woman and many others before her have made. I’m free to defend it.
Before diagnosis, I couldn’t understand making that choice as a preventive measure, either, even though many people in my family fought cancer. Now, as a survivor myself, I see why it’s a smart choice to make. That doesn’t mean it’s right for everyone. It just means that she is not “weird” or “stupid” for making that very difficult choice.
The choice she made is NOT the same as someone having so-called “gender reassignment” surgery.