“I will never be the same person I was before my diagnosis,” McCallion said. “Cancer is lonely, full stop. But being a man in what I call the ‘pink world’ of breast cancer – that’s even lonelier.”
Pluralist- A British man with breast cancer says he was denied entry into a Facebook support group because he was a man.
“I tried to join a support group on Facebook,” 55-year-old David McCallion of Manchester told the Daily Mail on Feb. 24. “But they sort of politely told me that because I was a man it might prevent members from opening up – so I thought it was best that I didn’t join. I was effectively declined membership.”
“I was made to feel like I was muscling in, but the last thing I wanted to do was jump up and down saying, ‘Look at me I’ve got breast cancer too,’” he told the British tabloid Metro. read more
the lefts version of “inclusion and tolerance”
Why not start your own group for men?
If they cannot exploit you to advance their political agenda you are of no use to the progressive movement. The progressive movement has infiltrated so many causes that used to be good causes that to find one they don’t have their hooks into takes real effort
His name is Robert Paulson.
Ooops, wrong support group.
He can’t join because he’s a man, and Bradley Manning is a girl because he got gelded and had his plumbing remodeled but still needs to get his prostate checked annually.
What a great world we live in!
I wonder what would happen if this was a group of men denying membership to a woman????
Maybe he could just start a support group for men they covers major issues.
A man doesn’t belong in this kind of group, period. The “support”-related non-medical issues are not remotely similar.
“…it might prevent members from opening up…”
Total hogwash. It doesn’t, and I speak (type) from extensive personal experience with an IRC breast cancer support group. I was not alone: other men participated as well and we were all welcomed as caregivers, partners, emotional support anchors, whatever you want to call it. I’m glad to say that I wasn’t a patient, and the lady for whom I was participating has been cancer-free now for well over two decades.
Believe me when I tell you that there were no subjects that we didn’t delve into, some quite graphic, others quite heart-wrenching.
E.g. Did you ever stop to realize that when chemotherapy makes all you hair fall out that includes nose hairs, and those little guys keep us from having snot on our lips all the time?
Uncle Al, I guess the support group you were in, unlike the one a friend of mine was in when she had a mastectomy, didn’t show and compare pictures, discuss cosmetic breast and nipple reconstruction, or talk about sexual issues. (It wasn’t an on-line group.)
Maybe there are different kinds of support groups.