October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Fman99
Oct 07 2010 06:11 AM
Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Oct 07 2010 02:36 PM

Woo hoo! For awareness I mean...

This picture seems a bit [crossout]awesome and hard-on inducing[/crossout] racy for a news site, doesn't it?

Benjamin Grimm
Oct 07 2010 06:42 AM
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When I was in Lisbon this summer, there were similar posters in the subways, except that the women pictured were well over 70.

Elster88
Oct 07 2010 07:48 AM
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[url]http://archives.cranepoolforum.net/9900/f2_t9937.shtml

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Oct 07 2010 09:39 AM
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Is anyone else a little creeped out by the rising breast-cancer-hypersexualization tide ("What color is your bra," etc.)?

Ceetar
Oct 07 2010 09:47 AM
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LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote:
Is anyone else a little creeped out by the rising breast-cancer-hypersexualization tide ("What color is your bra," etc.)?

I'm just waiting for them to drop the "Cancer" from the title and it be Breast Awareness month and everyone walks around topless.

Edgy DC
Oct 07 2010 09:51 AM
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Because lack of breast awareness quite the issue.

Ceetar
Oct 07 2010 09:57 AM
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It's also National Cyber Security Awareness Month and Domestic Violence Awareness month. (wait, i thought K-Rod wasn't pitching this October?)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Oct 07 2010 10:00 AM
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I'm all for sexytime-- whether it's in the usual way, or in unexpected, borderline uncomfortable places*-- and marketing sex is more of an American tradition than the seventh-inning stretch. It's not a band trip, or a let's-renovate-the-sorority-house fundraiser, though. It's fucking cancer. It kills 40,000-plus women a year.

That the "I Like it on the Floor" thing is even more of a stretch-- purses = breast cancer funds?-- just further underscores how the whole thing just erodes the dignity-- hell, the coherence, even-- of the cancer-fundraising effort.

*Even the back of a Volkswagen

Ceetar
Oct 07 2010 10:11 AM
Re: October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote:
I'm all for sexytime-- whether it's in the usual way, or in unexpected, borderline uncomfortable places*-- and marketing sex is more of an American tradition than the seventh-inning stretch. It's not a band trip, or a let's-renovate-the-sorority-house fundraiser, though. It's fucking cancer. It kills 40,000-plus women a year.

That the "I Like it on the Floor" thing is even more of a stretch-- purses = breast cancer funds?-- just further underscores how the whole thing just erodes the dignity-- hell, the coherence, even-- of the cancer-fundraising effort.

*Even the back of a Volkswagen

Does it matter though? It's not about dignity. Cancer doesn't have any dignity. If no-dignitity gets you an extra penny towards research, ultimately that's worth it.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Oct 07 2010 10:43 AM
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Ceetar wrote:
LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote:
I'm all for sexytime-- whether it's in the usual way, or in unexpected, borderline uncomfortable places*-- and marketing sex is more of an American tradition than the seventh-inning stretch. It's not a band trip, or a let's-renovate-the-sorority-house fundraiser, though. It's fucking cancer. It kills 40,000-plus women a year.

That the "I Like it on the Floor" thing is even more of a stretch-- purses = breast cancer funds?-- just further underscores how the whole thing just erodes the dignity-- hell, the coherence, even-- of the cancer-fundraising effort.

*Even the back of a Volkswagen

Does it matter though? It's not about dignity. Cancer doesn't have any dignity. If no-dignitity gets you an extra penny towards research, ultimately that's worth it.

So if, say, getting helpful strippers wearing "These are fake, 'cause my real ones were poisonous" tees to straddle cancer victims in hospice while they sleep brings a few more bucks in, you're in favor?

I really don't think it's black and white like that, man. (And trust me when I say I've got pretty catholic taste standards.)

Frayed Knot
Oct 07 2010 11:02 AM
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I liked the T-shirt some woman was wearing at a recent cancer rally or walk-a-thon or whatever that read, 'Stop the War in Myraq'

A Boy Named Seo
Oct 07 2010 02:43 PM
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"I totally hate cancer, yall!"

"Want me to give you a hand mammy right now??"

Edgy DC
Oct 13 2010 08:31 AM
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Sexist, puerile, insulting.

metsguyinmichigan
Oct 13 2010 09:02 AM
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Peter Criss, former Kiss drummer, crosses threads by being a breast cancer survivor.

[url]http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-15/health/male.breast.cancer_1_breast-cancer-breast-tissue-lumps?_s=PM:HEALTH

Willets Point
Oct 13 2010 09:09 AM
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Edgy DC wrote:
Sexist, puerile, insulting.

My favorite response was "I like my handbag open so I can take out money to donate to a breast cancer charity which is far more useful than participating in a stupid meme."

Edgy DC
Oct 13 2010 09:13 AM
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metsguyinmichigan wrote:
Peter Criss, former Kiss drummer, crosses threads by being a breast cancer survivor.

[url]http://articles.cnn.com/2009-10-15/health/male.breast.cancer_1_breast-cancer-breast-tissue-lumps?_s=PM:HEALTH

When we need someone to restore dignity to the fight against a disease issue that so often robs us of dignity, we look to KISS. Amazin'.

themetfairy
Oct 13 2010 09:20 AM
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I think what we need is to recognize that, when faced with a monstrous kind of disease, different people will react differently. Some prefer a quieter way to handle it, while others prefer to metaphorically take the bull by the horns. Some cancer survivors are angry, some are sad, and some are defiantly positive.

Let's not make more of this little game than it is. Some people have had fun with it, and if it's brought them comfort then so be it. Gallows humor is sometimes a wonderful coping mechanism.

I personally don't join any of the group status updates anymore. I did it a couple of times last year because I didn't want to hurt a friend's feelings, but ultimately I decided that my Facebook updates are for what I want to post when I want to post them; not to join along when someone else is in the mood to play a game.

That said, I'm not judging anyone. If someone gets a chuckle from having it on the table or on the wheelchair arm, so be it. Life is too short to worry about how other people cope with this kind of a horrible disease.