In the news recently has been an example of moral exhibitionism by Angelina Jolie. This famous movie actress announced to the world that she has had her breasts removed as a preventative against cancer. It has now been revealed that she will also have her ovaries removed.
The announcement of her prophylactic double mastectomy was greeted as a brave example to follow for other women who might also be threatened by breast cancer. One fellow has had his testes removed because he carried the same gene that Jolie carries.
It seems to have occurred to no one that these may be only the latest examples of self-mutilation that Angelina Jolie has put herself through in the last fifteen years. She may not be so much brave, as having a few screws loose.
Comparing pictures of her when she was a teenage model with those of her in her twenties make it obvious that she has had facial reconstruction, or plastic, surgery in her early twenties. That freakishly sharp jawline and her famous puffy lips were not so straight or so puffy in her teenage years.
She became notorious in her twenties for her numerous tattoos and body piercings, as well as a bizarre marriage to Billy Bob Thornton. She later became a lesbian.
Her marriage to Brad Pitt may have put her more self-destructive tendencies into abeyance for a while, but they seem to have broken out anew.
With the removal of her perfectly healthy breasts and ovaries, the substance of her womanhood - what made her famous on the screen - has been destroyed.
The doctor who recommended she mutilate herself in that manner must have something of the sadist in him.
Rather than marveling at the courage of Angelina Jolie, we ought to be wondering at the bizarre psychological needs she carries that has led her over the last fifteen years to a series of self-mutilations.
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