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[–]vitunrotta 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Imagine if someone would start touting BS like "OMG I totally know how it feels to have chemotherapy because I identify as a cancer patient!"

Just think about that for a minute - how invalidating, hurtful and insensitive it would feel for anyone actually having cancer and going through chemo. These people would be rightfully shut down and laughed out, while these fairydust dudes imagining period cramps get a free pass.

(Please note, I am NOT trying to equate cancer and period cramps. Was just trying to make a point. My apologies if said point was a bit clumsy.)

[–]WrongToy 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I was just thinking this, because I have been a cancer patient having had my breasts removed.

When I went home, it was with a binder. Actually two. They look like flowered tube tops but have extra reinforcement and velcro.

There was fuss about providing me the second one (they guessed slightly small but it was already on me so I had to get another one). There was fuss because those binders were going at $400 each. It wasn't until a year later I realized the correlation to TIFs.

TIFs claim it's almost the same--a question of "life and death." I gotta disagree I have anything in common with them.

[–]vitunrotta 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Ffs. Just when I thought they couldn’t sink any lower... mind-bendingly self absorbed, veering on narcissist behaviour from them.

I do hope you are better now. Cancer is an absolute monster.