I Hate Breast Cancer Awareness Month

[bluenautilus]

So, I hate Breast Cancer Awareness. The Month, you know, or just the awareness in General. My reasons are thusly:

#1 I Am Aware of Breast Cancer
I have never been more aware of anything in my life. I am sick of hearing about breast cancer. I am sick of little pink ribbons. I am sick of pink Yoplait lids, of special promotions, of famous people

Comments

[dragonsbones]

It's an obnoxious campaign, for sure. Most campaigns of this type are.

Sure, breast cancer is a big deal and it's more common than, say, foot cancer I guess. Plus people like boobs more than feet. As a result, you get a lot of half-informed folks (and, admittedly, plenty of well-informed folks just trying to do good in their own way) putting pink on everything (even my fuze drinks, ughhhh get it offff).

I wish they'd at least picked a cooler color. For example, green!

[bluestained_elf]

Livers are ugly, it's true!

Also, hooray for less chemicals and more food in the things we eat.

[knastymike]

RE: your point #2.
To be honest, hepatocelluar carcinoma is one of the rarest forms of origin-cancer. From what I know, the vast majority of liver cancer is metastasized from another cancerous organ in the body. So maybe breast cancer deserves more research than liver cancer under our current system, but not as much more, or not more than other prevalent forms of cancer.

RE: your point #4.
I've tried bringing this up in conversation before. I gave up after the 713048713th person looked at me with a blank stare as though I had just stripped naked and wailed on my own junk for 5 minutes.

[bluenautilus]

We can't cure it. We can do a better job of detecting it, and we can do a better job of removing it, but we can never get rid of it completely.

[dallastwin]

I'm so glad you gave the disclaimer at the end...

I have another point, which I'm surprised you didn't bring up:

How much money have they spent on this awareness campaign that they could have spent on research?? Do you watch the NFL? For the month of October, all of the players are wearing hot pink wrist bands, tennis shoes, accent ribbons on their jerseys, etc. Even the pads surrounding the field goal pole were hot pink at some of the stadiums. How much money did they spend to make all of those hot pink items to replace the items that were working just perfectly fine before??

[bluenautilus]

Oh gosh, yeah I would hope that people would recognize from my jocular prose that I was joking. I certainly don't want people to stop checking themselves for breast cancer and I do want money to go to research. I just get annoyed because it's such a big deal and it's in your face all the time.

And yes, way too much money is spent on Cute Pink Things that probably could have gone elsewhere. But the cute and the pink make the organization look good for "supporting a cause"