A takedown of Breast Cancer Awareness month?
My only question is what the hell took so long?
Every year, when Pink October, aka Breast Cancer Awareness Month, rolls around, dozens of women with breast cancer begin posting online to express one single sentiment: Make it stop.
It’s not the gifts from well-meaning friends that they mind so much, though they could do without the toasters and blenders in the color of Pepto-Bismol and the pink-iced pastries (never mind the warnings that sugar may be a culprit in cancer growth). “Today is just one of those days when I could scream if I am attacked by one more piece of pink,” one woman writes on a breast cancer site called Breast Cancer Insight. Then there are the pink chin straps on NFL helmets, plus other football accessories. Also, the big-ticket splurge: the “Warriors in Pink” Ford Mustang, with pink side stripes, leather seats with pink stitching, gray floor mats embroidered with pink ribbons. All of which adds up to the bold statement … that … what? “Cancer, I crush you with my Mustang?”
The rest is just as good. In fact, if the book is anywhere near as good as the article about it, I may just have to pick it up.
Source via Deb