Thanks for pointing this out, yes, the MSM, and the middle class focused media, have to point this out, as otherwise, suspicions may arise, as to the “validity” of a person’s sufferings.

Here again comes the “sickness beneficiary on the roof” kind of level of judgment.

This is a step of great courage, and deserves respect.

Women – and men – are PERSONS with PERSONALITIES, and not just shiny, glossy, made up, tanned, trained and otherwise enhanced “model” physical bodies.

This is perhaps an extreme case of someone having suffered immensely, and bearing scars from it, but I wish we had more of real people being presented by media, as they are, and as they want to be accepted.

It should be applied everywhere, not just in the media, but in workplaces, at schools, in the streets of our centres, and youngsters especially need encouragement to be different, be their natural selves – and they must be given respect and fair treatment for that.