Breast cancer awareness, neither funny nor sexy....discuss...

You see it on Yogurt lids...on soup can labels...on cereal boxes...key chains....t-shirts...and now on Facebook.

Breast cancer awareness month is upon us. That sounds funny even as I type it....every month should be breast cancer awareness month. I hope all my fellow friends are doing their self breast exams...well my girlfriends anyway (although fellows....if there are any fellows who read my blog....doubtful.....but fellows, you should be aware that breast cancer is NOT just a girl thing...)

I am grateful for products that are out there spreading the word about breast cancer and how serious it is. I applaud a local news station here sending an email reminder for women to conduct a self breast exam. Relay for Life team members, thank you for your time and efforts.

Facebook....thanks for being insensitive.

Last year, if you are a facebooker, women everywhere were supposed to coyly post the color of their bra as their status, in order to promote breast cancer awareness. So last year a rainbow of colors were posted and .....thats pretty much it. Were lives saved because you posted you were wearing a leopard striped bra? Doubtful. But it made us feel better about ourselves.

For the good of womanhood and to defeat BREAST CANCER....women were posting"white"..."green"...black"....." posy pink bra with the slight rip in the side!!!" :::pats self on the back....thinking about how many women are rushing right out to conduct a self exam or making an appt with their doc for a mammogram:::

No....no not at all really.

So now.....another year has passed and in my inbox this week....

Remember the game last year about what color bra you were wearing at the moment? The purpose was to increase awareness of October Breast Cancer Awareness month. It was a tremendous success and we had men wondering for days what was with the colors and it made it to the news! TIMEOUT!!!!! (Totally just pulled a Zack Morris Saved By the Bell moment here)...sooo lets see....by tremendous success.....we were successful because we had men wondering about colors...colors of our bra...and it was on the news? SQUEEEEAAAALLLL!!!! TIME IN! This year's game is about your handbag/purse, where we put our handbag/purse the moment we get home for example, " I like it on the couch" or "I like it on the kitchen counter" "I like it on the dresser" well u get the idea. Just put your answer as your status with nothing more than that and cut and paste this message and forward to all your FB female friends to their inbox. The bra game made it to the news. (more squealing! Eeee the news!!!) Let's see how powerful we women really are!! REMEMBER- DO NOT PUT YOUR ANSWER AS A REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE-PUT IT AS YOUR STATUS!!PASS THIS TO EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW.

Ok ladies...

First, I would like to know....how is your purse related at all to breast cancer awareness? How is this supposed to work....really?

So lets say "Mrs Smith" leaves her purse on the table and posts (all in the name of breast cancer, mind you) " I like it on the table."

FB girlfriend number one asks? "What are you talking about? Why are you posting sexual inuendos on FB?"

Mrs. Smith says "Oh I'm really talking about....BREAST CANCER AWARENESS, silly!!!!"

FB girlfriend number one says, "Ahhh yes of course!! Thanks for reminding me to do my self exam by a totally pointless, sexually charged, ridiculous post. I will be sure to tell my husband to look at your post too, so he can be in total cluelessness and we shall laugh at him together. Muahahaha."

End Scene.

Honestly. girls, is this how we are going to....what did the message say?....oh yes show the world and "see how powerful we women really are" ? By passing on a FB message that says NOTHING about breast cancer and pretending we are "doing our part" and oh my gosh! Hoping it will get on the news!!!

You want to raise awareness? There are other ways....ways that actually give a message or donate money to the Komen foundation. Ways that don't belittle the women who found out too late or the women going through their first second or third battle with breast cancer. Getting people to talk about breast cancer is a good step...this may have been an attempt at that, but it may be more effective if your message actually had something to do with.....BREAST CANCER! Just a thought for next year ladies.