DIABETES DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY
Cake Wrecks is a sweet blog that showcases the most horrible cakes ever brought to us by professional cake decorators. Usually, it includes horrible spelling, lopsided cakes and crap that looked like your three-year-old made it, but occasionally it will feature something insanely awesome like this amazingly awesome James-Bond-style wedding cake.

The other day, a cake was posted that depicted a giant insulin pen, with the following commentary:

'Nothing takes the sting out of a Diabetes diagnosis quite like an insulin-pen-shaped cake:

Sure, the person's foot will fall off if he or she eats it, but hey, it's the thought that counts, right? And think of all the joy the person will get watching friends and family consume all that sugary goodness, while said diabetic munches on a carrot stick or something equally "healthy".'

A diabetic takes the time to note that sugar actually isn't a big problem, and that it's more the carbs that they have to watch. And that they eat cake like normal people. People continue to post "OMG what were they thinking lol" comments until the innaccuracy has been explained umpteen times. From there the comments degenerate...

Some are insulted and enraged! Others say it was a JOKE, therefore it is impossible for anyone to be insulted by it ever! Many have very little knowledge about diabetes in general (terrifyingly, some of them seem to be parents of diabetics.) There's a lot of talk about whether pre-diabetes exists or whether it's just doctor-speak for "fatty mcfatfat." Health nuts weigh in with their crazy advice (STOP EATING, IT CAUSES CANCER!) Other diabetics weigh in claiming they found it funny, therefore everyone else must have done, too!

The wank carries on for a few hundred comments, until the blogger's husband (g-buh??) closes the comments and "for-shames" the lot. Apparently, she's so hurt by the OMG!fighting that she can't post it herself:


"[...] And just so we are clear, Jen READS your comments. Yup. All of them. So as a favor to me, please THINK HARD about what you want to say with the full knowledge that Jen doesn't EVER write anything with the intent to harm or misinform. It's just her opinion on cakes.

Lastly, the foot thing was SARCASM! No sane, sentient being on earth will come away from this post with the impression that a diabetics foot will fall off from eating a piece of CAKE. Nobody.

So there it is. As the husband of the blogger, I reserve the right to stop the comments now. Any new comments left here will be deleted unread to preserve the sanity of my wife.

john (the husband of Jen)"

So, not only does the "lol no foot!" comment not warrant any sort of ETA admitting that DIABETES DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, but people providing her with correct advice actually renders her incapable of sanity. I seeeeeee.

ETA: BAHLEETED! Overprotective husband is creepily overprotective. (Alternatively, sensitive blogger is waaay too sensitive.) white_serpent provides some caps of the original post. No comments, though.