October is the month of international beast cancer awareness. I remember writing a post on it a year ago. Boy, how that year has past.
I remember reading a novel a long time ago, when I still had time to enjoy good books, where a couple was making love and the man was so obsessed with the woman's breasts that she had no heart to let him know that she was diagnosed with breast cancer that morning and she rather die than to let him face her without her breast. She committed suicide soon after.
This story, which is just fiction, reflects real life where I think a lot of men would think less of a woman who is not "whole". How many times have we heard of men leaving the woman when she is facing hardships like these? Way too many for comfort.
I think that on the whole, women are more compassionate because their stick by their man no matter what, in life, in health and in sickness. Men, I have seen many cases where they leave the family when one child is born handicapped despite the fact that men share half the genes of the child. It is very unfair but then life is never fair.
I remember reading a novel a long time ago, when I still had time to enjoy good books, where a couple was making love and the man was so obsessed with the woman's breasts that she had no heart to let him know that she was diagnosed with breast cancer that morning and she rather die than to let him face her without her breast. She committed suicide soon after.
This story, which is just fiction, reflects real life where I think a lot of men would think less of a woman who is not "whole". How many times have we heard of men leaving the woman when she is facing hardships like these? Way too many for comfort.
I think that on the whole, women are more compassionate because their stick by their man no matter what, in life, in health and in sickness. Men, I have seen many cases where they leave the family when one child is born handicapped despite the fact that men share half the genes of the child. It is very unfair but then life is never fair.
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