Get Your Shit Straight Perez Hilton, Seriously.

June 28, 2012 by in accountability, Awareness, Lung Cancer Alliance, National Spotlight, Stigma

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Seriously, Perez. Did you NOT understand this “Deserve to Die” campaign whatsoever. No, you didn’t.

It takes a nanosecond to understand this campaign by the Lung Cancer Alliance is NOT about smoking. The campaign is easily illustrating just the opposite – that ANYONE can get lung cancer. You don’t have to smoke to get it. Just ask my Mom…and too many others.

Yes, lung cancer is all inclusive – striking cat lovers, hipsters, the smug, voracious readers, children in your cul-de-sac, celebrities, dog lovers, ice cream lovers, Perez Hilton lovers. You get the point.

 

Mom Overwhelmed After Receiving a Surprise Quilt

Here, let me help you out. In fact, 80% of people diagnosed with lung cancer have either never smoked or quit decades ago. That is a jaw dropping stat. It could be me or you. And guess what, virtually no one is doing anything about it.

On top of that, some people who have smoked are getting the non-smoker type of lung cancer. It’s not a black and white issue, like we’ve all been lead to believe for decades.  It’s the leading cancer killer of both men and women and the least funded. Why doesn’t it get research dollars? STIGMA.

Why am I lashing out at you? I’m a former reporter. It looks to me like you just tried to wrap up this story with a quick update that defaults to the “usual” (smoking) instead of looking a bit deeper. Actually, you don’t even have to look very deep to find an accurate update (even with looming deadlines)…the click of a link, a link especially created just for the media on the Lung Cancer Alliance’s website.

Go figure.

Due to laziness…you just perpetuated the stigma, bro. And wrote a crappy piece on top of it. Way to go. Journalism at its finest.

Those 160,000 who will die of lung cancer this year thank you. My Mom too.

 

7 Comments - Leave a comment!
  • http://www.mightycasey.com MightyCasey

    You expected a douchebag like Perez Hilton to get irony? 

    Seriously, I’m glad you called him out on it – dunno if he’ll get that, either, tho …

  • http://twitter.com/bobledrew Bob LeDrew

    The GOOD news is that the comments section on the post is filling up with people telling him to, as you so memorably put it, “get his shit straight.” Good for them. Now let’s see Perez get on board with this. 

  • http://freetraffictip.com Tinu

    Yet another example of how people are NOT listening these days. Or reading. Or comprehending. Glad you responded. It really makes me wonder how to get through to people? How many other people like him don’t get it, and aren’t even trying to? 

  • http://www.atlanticwebworks.com/ Kristen Daukas

    My dad passed from lung cancer 4 years ago (he WAS a smoker but still) and I was disgusted to find out how little money goes to the research of lung cancer. The ignorance of people towards this disease has to stop in order to save ALL the lives affected by it. Thanks for the post.

  • http://www.facebook.com/hollynyny Holly Rosen Fink

    My mom was diagnosed this year and it is no joke.  I have never cried harder and can’t believe anyone would involve Perez Hilton in something so serious.

  • http://info-worldwide.com/ Girja Tiwari77

    The first is the uncontrolled growth of cells is embodied in Nasty. Cancer cells and malignant cells.

  • Ameena Meer

    thank you! and i loved your TMI post, too, jennifer. as a single mother who went through cancer treatments a couple of years ago (presently in remission!) i am struck by the moralistic tone people take about lung cancer specifically and cancer in general.

    i was moved by the lung cancer campaign myself.
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