Is Boobies a 4 Letter Word?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

Who says they're not? How much of the money from these bands goes to the cause? An how much does using the word "boobies" instead of breasts help? If it sells bands to people who wouldn't otherwise give money, chances are it's to the people who will only buy them if they're cheap and therefore very little of those $$ end up doing any good beyond keeping the Chinese employed.

The Keep A Breast Foundation’s sold over 2 million @ $4 a pop. I doubt very much of that is going to China. As for your assertion the majority of the money is not going to research, I'd be glad to entertain your proof.

Where do we get off telling breast cancer survivors/sufferers/their relatives how they should feel about campaigns to help them?

"We" are doing no such thing. I questioned why these two teachers would not support a campaign to raise the awareness/support of the younger crowd, who are at the age they still think they're immortal, to the fact that this disease does indeed strike people under 40... a lot of them.

Be quiet, the grown-ups are talking and we know what's best for you?

To the contrary, it's shut up and let the youth talk, talk to each other in their own vernacular, because all that adult talking hasn't gotten through to them.

Would we say the same to child molestation victims if they found a fuck five-year-old-fingerers or banish baby-buggerers band offensive?

Strawman.

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.

There are many women who feel talking about breasts in socially inappropriate, so I'm not surprised.

Using their very personal and very traumatizing cancer experience as a stepping stone for political/personal publicity aims and general money making (not fundraising).

I'm sure this happens, especially with politicians and celebrities, but the number of people who have even the remotest possibility of personal gain is minuscule compared to the number trying to help.

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.

For those that have suffered this cancer, it's a very traumatic personal experience, and they cope in their own way, be it scientific terms or whatever they have to do. But this is not about them, or their trauma, this is about the disease, and trying to make youth aware of it's potential to knock on their door.

The "save the boobles" campaign suggests men sitting around feeling smug because they can think about and say boobies without their wife complaining.

No, men say tits.

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.

You feel I was insensitive to wonder why they were upset by this campaign? I don't think so, insensitive would be sending them an email telling them they are wrong to feel that way. Even more insensitive would be write them off as irrelevant.

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 use it as an excuse to moon people from our cars show our assholes from our vehicles to raise awareness and not be arrested?

That's crazy talk.

Here's my support for the campaign to fight middle finger cancer.

I love it when you rant, especially when you talk dirty.