Latest addition to the List of People Hannah Wants to Shoot In the Face:

[saellys]

All the lazy bitches on Facebook who think they're doing something meaningful about breast cancer awareness when they change their status updates with the colors of their bras

Comments

[skeletonshark]

*headdesk*
people are really doing that on facebook? That is just flat out insulting to the breast cancer awareness movement.
In regards to #1, maybe I'm just a dick, but I think that the breast cancer awareness marginalizes men far too much. True, most people who do get breast cancer are women, but there are indeed men. Shouldn't there be a push to increase awareness that men can and have been diagnosed as well?

[saellys]

It never occurred to me that men would get breast cancer too, but chyeah, everybody has boobs to some degree. Jeez. A movement like this would benefit a lot from being not sexist, you know?

[skeletonshark]

Too true.
If anything ovarian, cervical, other female only bits cancer should be really femmed up. Not breast cancer.

[saellys]

The weird thing is that I keep seeing my most white bread, fundamentalist, True Love Waits friends posting their bra color on Facebook. A couple Mormon friends of mine did it, along with a girl I went to church with who's married and has a kid now. These are people who are generally waaaaaaaaaay more conservative than me, but they went along with this crap. I'm the one that cohabited before marriage and got my freak on for the first time at a stoner music festival, but my prudiest of prude friends don't see anything wrong with virtually flashing people.

Sigh.

[rustleofswing]

The thing that I think is weird is that it's placing so much emphasis on the breasts themselves (well, the bra color, really, but you know), when a lot of survivors of breast cancer may no longer have any breasts at all, or at least not the breasts they had pre-cancer.

I don't know. My boyfriend has leukemia so I am all about cancer awareness and talking about cancer. Yeah, everyone knows about breast cancer, but everyone knows about leukemia too, and when it's affecting you personally in a less-than-3rd-degree kinda way, it becomes your life. I don't know your personal experience with breast cancer or any cancer so I don't mean to imply that you're being insensitive or anything like that, but I think just because everyone KNOWS about a particular kind of cancer doesn't mean we don't have to talk about it and keep raising awareness in hopes for a cure.

And yes, volunteering/donating is hugely important! I'm going Tuesday for my first volunteer shift at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and I'm super psyched/scared at the same time!

[saellys]

I know what you mean. My aunt died of breast cancer, my uncle of lymphoma, my grandmother of ovarian cancer that spread to her stomach, and my cousin has a suspicious lump that she refuses to get checked out because she's scared of what the doctors will say. My personal involvement in each case is nowhere near the level of what it would be if, say, my husband had cancer, so there's definitely no comparison with your situation but you have my sympathy.

I believe in the need for maintaining awareness for all varieties of cancer, because I certainly don't want my family members to have died for nothing, but before today I'd never encountered a method of raising awareness that was so pointless and backward. Why not take it all the way and try to generate support for chemo patients by putting our hair color and style on Facebook? Blech. I feel dirty typing that--good thing I'm not involved in marketing for nonprofits.

[rustleofswing]

Now that you've explained it a bit better I know what you mean & I agree. I'm sorry to hear about your relatives...cancer fucking sucks!

[girl_narcissus]

This has pissed off so many people I know, it's just ridiculous! Rage on!