Week 8 Blogging Assignment

In the book titled, "Not Now....I'm Having a Bad Hair Day" by Christine Lindstrom talks about getting cancer and is a help book that is meant to ease people have recently found out they are diagnosed with cancer. In her personal story retelling, she mentions that "I knew that of all the side effects I was about to experience, losing my hair would be the most traumatic." As a woman, not having hair is a clear physical indicator that a women currently has cancer. So therefore, women have a greater emotional burden from that changed physical experience. I think that it is an interesting aspect geared more specifically toward women, since men who are bald could have cancer, but more likely are just are at an older age or they shave for the war or they have a bald/scalp condition. In that way, women feel more of the pressure from society's judgement and make more of an effort to get a wig or wear a hat in order to hide the fact that they have a very unfortunate disease. Grace Huang.