National 'no bra' day rebuttal

[BDBoop]

National No Bra Day and Breast Cancer Awareness Month OR Please Put That Pink Can of Soup Down & Put Your Bra Back On | cancerinmythirties

What is most unfortunate is that well-meaning people are willing to buy pink products, even pay a little extra, because they think they are helping to do something to “cure” breast cancer or to provide “hope” to breast cancer patients. Why is this sad? Because those dollars spent on pink flowers, pink shirts, or a pink box of crackers or spaghetti sauce could be going to research, our only real “hope” of beating this horrible disease.

So please put your bra back on, put down those pink garbage bags (unless you really like pink that much!), that pink “awareness” pepper spray keychain, and that pink breast cancer “awareness” vibrator and dildo (yes, I’m blushing and yes, these are real things that their merchandisers say will “help you raise breast cancer awareness” — though they are shipped discretely in plain, unmarked boxes so no one knows what you purchased) and send a few dollars to an organization that devotes their fundraising dollars to research. You just have to do a bit of homework or read the labels on those pink items to see where your money is actually going. Or, if you don’t like homework, here are two great ones:

*** Stand Up To Cancer ? This Is Where The End Of Cancer Begins ***: Our mission is to fund collaborative, translational cancer research to bring treatments from the bench to the bedside faster, and save lives now. Since Stand Up To Cancer was founded in May 2008, we have granted $161 Million Dollars to ten Dream Teams of scientists and researchers, one international translational research team and 26 high-risk, high-reward Innovative Research Grants. 100% of public funds go directly into research grants. A portion of the funds that are raised from major donations and third-party fundraising go towards administrative expenses and overhead.

*** Metavivor.org ***: From support groups to funding vital research, our programs sustain the power of hope. Passionately committed patients ourselves, we rally public attention to the urgent needs of the metastatic breast cancer (MBC) community, help patients find strength through support and purpose, and make EVERY dollar count as we work with researchers to regain longevity with quality of life.

Since so much of the board has gone pink, and I don't want to further damage the pink thread - I am sharing this here.

P.S.: Nobody's making me put that bra back on. Part of why I love working at home is because bras suck.

 

[whitehall]

More men on average die from prostate cancer so what is the male alternative? No jock day?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

More men on average die from prostate cancer so what is the male alternative? No jock day?

What does that have to do with the OP?

Start a thread if you want to but its stupid to always try to hijack threads.