The way the world is today you’d think that nothing was too sensitive to discuss. The internet provides us with more information than we can poke a stick at and yet the thought of actually saying something out loud scares the bejesus out of us.

Take this post on The Lost Boys blog for example. Lane wrote about a concern he has for his prostate. Straight off the bat he says that he’s “in two minds about whether to divulge”. Big ups to him for actually writing the post but boo to some of the comments.

One person commented and said, “Lane, forchristsakes, what did I tell you about putting it all out there? Shezuz, tone it down. Stick to your miseryguts moping, anything, but this…”.
Another simply wrote, “ T . M . I”.
I’m sorry, but since when should we be ashamed to talk about these kinds of problems?

It makes me so infuriated every time I hear about situations where people could have helped themselves but were too scared to. Why were they scared? In the case of prostates it’s usually because they didn’t want some scary examination (note: you can get blood tests to check for these things now). Do people not understand that it’s a trade off between getting tested and let’s say, dying. For me, there’s no competition.

My closing statement: quit being scared, reserved babies and bloody well start talking about it!