Wednesday, July 30, 2014

No to "No Bra Day"

Apparently there's an ignorant movement to consider October 13 to be a No Bra Day... " in support of breast cancer."
 https://www.facebook.com/957kjr

Actually it's not a good idea to flaunt one's breasts while also trying to be supportive of women who have died of breast cancer or who may have lost both breasts to cancer.

See these blog posts by a woman who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer at age 34.

http://cancerinmythirties.wordpress.com/2012/10/13/national-no-bra-day-and-breast-cancer-awareness-month-or-please-put-that-pink-can-of-soup-down-put-your-bra-back-on/

http://cancerinmythirties.wordpress.com/2013/10/10/national-no-bra-day-an-update/

She says:  you should think twice before you publicize a day that jokes about putting the first body parts we usually lose to this disease “out there” on display even more conspicuously and then labeling it as an activity that helps our ’cause’.

Below is one of the offending ads... men love it.  

Thanks to my daughter, Roz Arthur Eggebroten, who advised me to take this "no bra day" with a grain of salt.  (As an aging '60s person, I tend to be in favor of no-bra days.)  She said there were a bunch of t-shirts with offensive messages like this a few years ago.

The Cancer in My Thirties blog also notes the "pinkification" of breast cancer-- she says it trivializes the disease and its seriousness, makes it pink and cutesy, sells a lot of products, and probably reduces the donations that could actually go to breast cancer research.

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