Comments on: On Not Thinking Pink http://www.meghanconrad.com/blog/2010/01/on-not-thinking-pink/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:10:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lesley http://www.meghanconrad.com/blog/2010/01/on-not-thinking-pink/comment-page-1/#comment-690 Lesley Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:27:56 +0000 http://www.meghanconrad.com/blog/?p=294#comment-690 Don't hate the pink! :-D Some grown women do like it. It's my favorite color in the rainbow - not that it's actually in the rainbow, mind you, at least in the sense of the spectrum, but I digress...I tried to not like it for years and years, because I was very goth and still swing that way quite often, but as I've grown up I've come to terms with the fact that I really, really love pink. There is just no getting around it. The color makes me quite happy. So I inadvertently give a great deal of money to the breast cancer foundation because of all the pink products I buy. I am also for anything that gets women to remember to do their monthly breast exams. (I'm ashamed to say that I often forget.) So most of those advertisements really don't bother me, and I think "Feel Your Boobies" is kinda a cute slogan. Now all that being said, as I mentioned on facebook, I have no attachment to my breasts whatsoever. Save for the fact that I'd like to have one more baby and use them to nurse it. If I found out I had breast cancer tomorrow though I'd go for a full mastectomy on both breasts with no regrets. I'm with you. Who cares if you have boobs if your dead? Also I'd really like to see some of the focus shifted from breast cancer awareness to other issues that are equally important. And since there is a great deal of objectification of women going on with all the breast cancer advertising (I can't argue that.)these campaigns could objectify men too. Men with handsome butts in tight speedos for colon cancer. The color for the ribbon could be brown... Men with nice packages also in tight speedos for prostate cancer. Seriously though I'm quite certain that people are aware of breast cancer by now. So I think that meme was less about breast cancer awareness than about making people wonder what was going on. I know it amused me to know end when all the boys started asking what the colors were about. Don’t hate the pink! :-D Some grown women do like it. It’s my favorite color in the rainbow – not that it’s actually in the rainbow, mind you, at least in the sense of the spectrum, but I digress…I tried to not like it for years and years, because I was very goth and still swing that way quite often, but as I’ve grown up I’ve come to terms with the fact that I really, really love pink. There is just no getting around it. The color makes me quite happy. So I inadvertently give a great deal of money to the breast cancer foundation because of all the pink products I buy.

I am also for anything that gets women to remember to do their monthly breast exams. (I’m ashamed to say that I often forget.) So most of those advertisements really don’t bother me, and I think “Feel Your Boobies” is kinda a cute slogan.

Now all that being said, as I mentioned on facebook, I have no attachment to my breasts whatsoever. Save for the fact that I’d like to have one more baby and use them to nurse it. If I found out I had breast cancer tomorrow though I’d go for a full mastectomy on both breasts with no regrets. I’m with you. Who cares if you have boobs if your dead?

Also I’d really like to see some of the focus shifted from breast cancer awareness to other issues that are equally important. And since there is a great deal of objectification of women going on with all the breast cancer advertising (I can’t argue that.)these campaigns could objectify men too.

Men with handsome butts in tight speedos for colon cancer. The color for the ribbon could be brown…

Men with nice packages also in tight speedos for prostate cancer.

Seriously though I’m quite certain that people are aware of breast cancer by now. So I think that meme was less about breast cancer awareness than about making people wonder what was going on. I know it amused me to know end when all the boys started asking what the colors were about.

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