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The future is unwritten
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Is Boobies a 4 Letter Word?
Apparently some teachers and school administrators do.
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Fuck Cancer.
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Thats "Miss Zipper Neck" to you.
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There needs to be a fuck cancer wristband campaign.
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To shreds, you say?
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And on the inside of that wristband it should say "Not with your dick and Mike pushing"
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lobber of scimitars
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Is there an African Americans and the N-word element to this? Only dudes couldn't wear the wristband right side out?
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I hear them call the tide
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Where do we get off telling breast cancer survivors/sufferers/their relatives how they should feel about campaigns to help them? Be quiet, the grown-ups are talking and we know what's best for you? Would we say the same to child molestation victims if they found a fuck five-year-old-fingerers or banish baby-buggerers band offensive? Some women -especially those who have had mastectomies- feel that their suffering is being trivialized and the publicity is not about raising awareness of breast cancer at all, it's about using cancer as an excuse to do something that would otherwise be deemed socially inappropriate. Using their very personal and very traumatizing cancer experience as a stepping stone for political/personal publicity aims and general money making (not fundraising). Some women feel very incomplete after mastectomies. But they cope by looking at it in scientific terms: "it's just a diseased body part I didn't need any more...a breast..." Calling them boobies in this context and saying how important they are to everybody -especially men -and let's face it, that's who's likely to sit up and take notice of the word boobies- re-sexualizes them and makes these women feel less whole and less valued again. Not all women, necessarily, but some. The "save the boobles" campaign suggests men sitting around feeling smug because they can think about and say boobies without their wife complaining. Show some fucking sensitivity. if they find it offensive, why isn't that OK? They have at least had the disease -unlike all those whiners who find a mosque in NYC offensive despite the fact they live in bumfuck Tejas and never knew anyone who died there because no-one they know has ever left the county they were born in. When will we see the "Shit Happens" toilet paper in support of bowel cancer? Will we wear brown "scented" wristbands? Will we all poop publicly to show our support for colonic well-being? Can we Here's my support for the campaign to fight middle finger cancer. ![]()
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trying hard to be a better person
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By using the word boobies, I get the impression they're trying to bring awareness of the disease to a younger demographic. That's usually what little kids call them when they're still nursing etc, so I guess it carries forward from that.
As to people being upset about it, I'm really surprised at the double standards around here at times. There have been references to things which I find particularly offensive and personally hurtful and yet I'm told to get over it. I'd love to know what the difference is here.
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I hear them call the tide
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because this is a bulletin board on the internet and you're notoriously whiny? everyone has "double standards" by your apples and oranges definition -would you give your life to save your kids -yes, someone else's kids -maybe, someone else's dog -no.......
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barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy.
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There is no difference Ali. It a good thing. My sis-in-law is now the oldest living female in her family at just over 50. They have lost as least six women to breast cancer. Her daughters have been selling bands for a group they started.
She, and they think its a great way to reach a broader base. Its called marketing. I don't see where anyone is trivializing the issue, nor do I see it as anyone telling them how to feel.
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Bullshit monster. I do not whine. Why do you have to be such a bitch all the time?
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beacuse i'm notoriously bitchy.
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clearly
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To shreds, you say?
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I heart knockers
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I hear them call the tide
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I love life.
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