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Melissa Etheridge: Angelina Jolie's Mastectomy Is "Fearful," Not "Brave"
US Weekly ^ | June 17, 2013 AT 6:00PM | Allison Takeda

Posted on 06/18/2013 4:22:21 PM PDT by drewh

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1 posted on 06/18/2013 4:22:21 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh

At this point, what difference does it make?


2 posted on 06/18/2013 4:24:07 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: Nervous Tick

None since Christina Applegate among many others have had this procedure done well before Ms. Jolie.


3 posted on 06/18/2013 4:26:36 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: drewh
Etheridge told the Washington Blade that she wouldn't make the same decision for herself. Nor would she encourage others to do so without properly researching their options.

Melissa thinks nobody except her is capable of "properly researching their options."

4 posted on 06/18/2013 4:27:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (People with religious faith in government are far crazier than people with religious faith in God.)
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To: drewh

My sister made the same decision as Jolie. The doctors removed a lump but told her she had a 10% chance of it coming back. My sister looked at her two baby daughters. .. 2 and 5. ...and would have cut off her legs to make sure she was there to raise them .


5 posted on 06/18/2013 4:27:20 PM PDT by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: drewh

>> “My belief is that cancer comes from inside you, and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It’s the stress that will turn that gene on or not.”

It’s always been amazing to me how merely having mediocre skill at music, and moderate attractiveness, and the fortune of being in the right place at the right time, confers extraordinary powers of knowledge and understanding about essentially EVERY subject to the American “celebrity”.

It’s uncanny.


6 posted on 06/18/2013 4:28:22 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: drewh; Revolting cat!

Under Obamacare, you’d be advised to just take the pain pill rather than seek any surgery.


7 posted on 06/18/2013 4:29:18 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: drewh

But I bet she thinks it is brave when a homosexual comes out of the closet.

Go quietly fade away, Melissa.


8 posted on 06/18/2013 4:29:44 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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9 posted on 06/18/2013 4:29:50 PM PDT by drewh
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I never thought I would agree with Melissa Etheridge, but I do.

I think what Jolie did was not only fearful, but stupid. You don’t have healthy, normal body parts removed because of a chance of cancer. If you have a very high chance of developing cancer, you simply get frequently tested. If you actually develop the disease, then you take appropriate action. What Jolie did was bizarre and unhinged - no matter how liberals in the MSM laud it as “brave”.


10 posted on 06/18/2013 4:30:00 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: drewh

Okay, I’ll say it: Melissa Etheridge is retarded.


11 posted on 06/18/2013 4:30:31 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: drewh

Mel is right. It’s just foolish to be afraid of getting cancer, dying horribly and leaving your family alone.

Total stupidity.


12 posted on 06/18/2013 4:31:37 PM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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To: drewh

Another story the US MSM can sink their teeth in.


13 posted on 06/18/2013 4:33:32 PM PDT by hadaclueonce (dont worry about Mexico, put the fence around kalifornia.)
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To: Blackirish

>> would have cut off her legs to make sure she was there to raise them

And so proceed the “ordinary” lives of the genuine heroes that inhabit the LORD’S circle of life and love.

(As opposed to many celebrities, who believe they are the only heroes and the world turns around them.)

May GOD continue to bless your sister richly. Seems he has already given her much wisdom, courage, and love.

THanks for sharing that, and FRegards


14 posted on 06/18/2013 4:34:18 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: vladimir998

My sister is a strong Catholic social conservative. I’m not sure how you bring liberal or conservative into this. I think it’s a “Mother Bear” thing.


15 posted on 06/18/2013 4:34:49 PM PDT by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: vladimir998
Except for the fact that her sister was dying of breast cancer while all this was going on.
16 posted on 06/18/2013 4:35:36 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: drewh

I think they both make valid points and I am not the person to judge. That being said, I think they are both idiotic narcisitics who felt the need to tell the world “look at me, look at me.”


17 posted on 06/18/2013 4:36:28 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: vladimir998

>> You don’t have healthy, normal body parts removed because of a chance of cancer.

And you don’t have much knowledge of state-of-the-art cancer treatment best practices.

Prophylactic surgery for cancer prevention is not only commonplace, it’s proven effective. That’s how it became a best practice.


18 posted on 06/18/2013 4:36:40 PM PDT by Nervous Tick (Without GOD, men get what they deserve.)
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To: vladimir998

Obviously, it”s a personal decision, but I’m inclined to agree with you. I don’t care to go under the knife for any reason unless I absolutely have to. And I’m skeptical about whether identifying a gene or genes would really be such an accurate predictor of whether or not you will get cancer.


19 posted on 06/18/2013 4:37:40 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’s taking it harder than Brad Pitt.


20 posted on 06/18/2013 4:37:41 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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