Comments on: Boobies Against Breast Cancer

By: Naomi

Naomi — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:05:47 +0000

http://www.bestforbabes.org/2010/10/breast-cancer-orgs-please-includ-the-protection-literally-right-under-our-noses/

I think it is important to mention how PREVENTION (as a previous poster mentioned) should also be included in all this breast cancer awareness junk.

By: On the New Comedy, Outsourced » Sociological Images

On the New Comedy, Outsourced » Sociological Images — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:31:54 +0000

[...] sent to India to manage a company full of Indian workers who take orders for gag items (including jingle jugs). I think the it is both troubling and promising at the same time. My thoughts after the [...]

By: Breast Cancer Action

Breast Cancer Action — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:48:52 +0000

Dr. Lisa Wade,

Great post! Thank you so much for mentioning the work of Breast Cancer Action. We hope you continue to spread the word about Breast Cancer Action and help shed some light on the many issues surround breast cancer. Please stay up to date on all of Breast Cancer Actions campaigns and continue to help us challenge assumptions and inspire change.

Breast Cancer Action
bcaction.org
thinkbeforeyoupink.org

By: Natural

Natural — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:12:26 +0000

The reason that the incidence of cancer keeps going up, while people keep contributing is because the money being contributed for “research”, is going to the same companies that are making the cancer causing chemicals in the first place. Check it out – and then look at their political affiliations.
And check out what they mean by “prevention”. They’re not talking about preventing cancer – not until the medical $$$ have been made. Prevention should mean preventing people for getting cancer. It doesn’t – it means preventing death once one has cancer.
So, the same companies make the carcinogens, then get the research dollars to make the drugs to treat the cancer.

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:44:51 +0000

I’d just like to mention how offensive I find the “Save the Boobies” slogan that I’m seeing on T-shirts from the American Cancer Society itself. I’m not offended by breasts or by words like “boobies” — far from it. I AM, however, offended to promoting the saving of “boobies” over the saving of the lives of women. Objectifying those with deadly cancer isn’t cute to me, and breasts are not nearly as important as life. They don’t even qualify as a secondary or tertiary concern for me. Yes, we’d like to keep our breasts — but they’re not the point of finding a cancer cure.

By: steven

steven — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:39:02 +0000

Same here, preparing materials for my oral cancer awareness campaign.

By: zoelouise

zoelouise — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:44:41 +0000

“also”?

By: karinova

karinova — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:16:27 +0000

You’ve just got to love— and by “love” I mean “cry your eyes out about”— the fact that the “boobies” are mounted, taxidermy/trophy-style. Freudian slip, much?

Women: they’re always in season.

By: Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:54:26 +0000

Thank you for this post; I never buy any “pink” items and I’ve had a hard time discouraging my friends from doing so…I’m hoping this post will do the trick.

By: pg

pg — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:49:06 +0000

I am looking forward to the taxidermed dancing anuses to raise awareness for prostate cancer!

By: F Craye

F Craye — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:53:41 +0000

Check out Breast Cancer Action: they have written alot about the commercialization of breast cancer awareness.

http://www.bcaction.org/

By: MeToo

MeToo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:54:06 +0000

I’m frustrated by how this ‘donate for the cure’ crap never points out that this research has not led to anything like a cure while cancer incidences continue to increase. In fact, existing practices (such as biopsy) are more likely to prompt cancer to spread, and chemo-’therapeutic’ drugs (which are carcinogenic themselves) subsequently enter the environment and arguably cause more cases of cancer than they were used to palliate in the first place. Also, the organizations that receive this money are part of a system that denies people information about and access to safe and effective natural treatments.

Also, even more importantly, while these organizations make ‘cancer research’ seem like a happy, fuzzy thing, it ignores that this research entails often horrific torture and killing of non-humans. When I refuse to donate to cancer causes, explaining that I don’t give money to fund vivisection, donation-seekers often seem stunned, as if they never contemplated that the money they collect ostensibly to ‘save lives’ actually funds death. Frankly, when I see a pink ‘breast cancer’ product, I see it dripping with the blood of the non-humans and the human victims killed for ‘the cure’ — and they certainly won’t get my money.

By: MeToo

MeToo — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:40:15 +0000

Milk consumption itself is also associated with increased risks of many cancers (ovarian and prostate, for example).

By: Other Kelly

Other Kelly — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:44:48 +0000

Eh, well, sorry for all of the typeOs in my previous post. ‘Written in the heat of anger, you know.

By: Other Kelly

Other Kelly — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:42:17 +0000

I became disillusioned with cause-based marketing after I brought a bottle of Dawn dish soap that was a dollar more expensive than the other brands and promised to donate one dollar to help save wildlife.

When I got home and read the bottle’s label more carefully, I discovered that in order for Dawn to donate that dollar they had promised, I had to log on to their website and type in the (almost illegibly-printed) code stamped on the bottom of the bottle I had purchased, and enter in my email address (thus ensuring a steady stream of junk mail from Dawn. When I was done entering in my code, I saw that there was cap on how much money Dawn would donate (about 50,000, I think) and their donations had already exceeded the cap, so my donation was meaningless. It made me SO ANGRY! I felt like I had been scammed out of my money and have resolved to never buy a product from Dawn again.