Catherine, Princess of Wales, has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy, she announced in a video message on Friday, in which she described the past two months as “incredibly tough for our entire family.”
It comes after a period of intense uncertainty about the health of Catherine, who underwent abdominal surgery in January and largely disappeared from public view as she tried to recuperate.
Like the king, Catherine, 42, did not specify what kind of cancer she has, but asked the public and news media to respect her desire for privacy.
They haven’t done anything. They are just celebrities, which is why they are in the news. You may find celebrity culture stupid (as I do) but that’s how our society is. Are you equally upset with the news reporting on a random musician with cancer?
Exactly my point: society is wrong. Thinking that this person is somehow more deserving of attention – let alone sympathy – just because she’s “royal” is fucking perverse!
Thinking they don’t deserve any when they have fucking cancer is probably a bit more perverse.
So, again, where are the headlines for everyone else who has cancer? Are you saying they’re less deserving?
I don’t understand what your argument is. Obviously we can’t report on or care about every single person on the planet, regardless of how deserving they may be.
There is only room in our attention span for the occasional placeholder to care about outside our immediate social circle and family, and we are also naturally inclined to the concept of fame.
So there will always be people of a certain fame who draw the attention of the masses. May it be politicians, celebrities, fucking billionaire scum, scientists, “influencers”, and so forth.
I still don’t think it is morally appropriate to dismiss or talk bad about someone who is struggling with a potentially terminal illness, regardless of if they are famous or not.
Then the media should STFU about it, don’t you think?
Apparently there are a bunch of sycophants around here who can’t tell the difference between me saying something isn’t newsworthy and me being “heartless” towards a cancer patient. That’s just fucked-up on their part.