[Secret Squirrel]

...try harder?

Students nationwide are wearing the "I (heart) boobies" wristbands, and running afoul of school administrators.

Simple explanation: The kids wearing them are nature lovers and worried that some birds are going extinct...


"Look at me!! OVER HERE!!! I'm offended!!! Really!!! MEEEEEEEE!"

 

[dante]

Thank god that there are only good, upstanding, serious groups out there dedicated to raising money for breast cancer...

 

[X3pilot]

Personally, I've had about all the pink/Komen/ta-tas, boobies I care to hear about. After all these years and all this money raised, there should be a cure for cancer. Drug companies won't allow there to be a cure, so therefore, un pink my goddamn NFL!

More men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year than women with breast cancer. Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

 

[Pesqueeb]

Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

There is a mega church/catholic joke somewhere in here, I know it.

 

[Jim Mac]

Personally, I've had about all the pink/Komen/ta-tas, boobies I care to hear about. After all these years and all this money raised, there should be a cure for cancer. Drug companies won't allow there to be a cure, so therefore, un pink my goddamn NFL!

More men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year than women with breast cancer. Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

Couldn't agree more! How about a pink ribbon with a brown hole?

 

[FlyinPolack]

Personally, I've had about all the pink/Komen/ta-tas, boobies I care to hear about. After all these years and all this money raised, there should be a cure for cancer. Drug companies won't allow there to be a cure, so therefore, un pink my goddamn NFL!

More men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year than women with breast cancer. Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

You ain't ****tin!
"I love browneye" I can see it now!

 

[stevew]

There is a mega church/catholic joke somewhere in here, I know it.

sh!tdick?

 

[syadasti]

More men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year than women with breast cancer. Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

Or money towards heart disease - way more health problems related to CVDs and it kills probably around 1.5 million in the US/year - including more women than breast cancer. Easy to take steps against it that prevent a variety of diseases, decrease depression from lack of exercise, and addresses other quality of life problems associated with heart disease. If you don't address it from an early age its a big problem with the gradual onset from childhood.

 

[ohio]

More men were diagnosed with prostate cancer last year than women with breast cancer. Where's the brown ribbon and the I heart assholes bracelets?

Was gonna write the same thing (although about colon cancer. I think you're wrong about prostates). Titties:Colons::Baby Sealsythons

 

[X3pilot]

Was gonna write the same thing (although about colon cancer. I think you're wrong about prostates). Titties:Colons::Baby Sealsythons

I stand corrected. At least I was in the general area.

 

[syadasti]

Lung is the worst by far and smoking is also linked to CVDs

 

[jimmydean]

Lung is the worst by far and smoking is also linked to CVDs

A gray bracelet that says "I <3 smokes"?

 

[DaveW]

I dunno about the US but the NZ taxes on tobacco gathers $1.3 billion a year in government income.... That's quite a lot for a population base of 4.2million.
A pack of 20 is something like $17 now.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

I really didn't think teenage boys needed help with breast awareness. Fvck, our youth is getting dumber by the minute.

 

[jimmydean]

A pack of 20 is something like $17 now.

At those prices, I'd switch to weed.

 

[DaveW]

At those prices, I'd switch to weed.

Strangely enough NZ does have some of the worlds highest cannabis smoking stats lol

 

[Secret Squirrel]

At those prices, I'd switch to weed.

It's $60 a carton for Marlboro's down the street at the "cheap smokes" place...

 

[BikeMike]

After all these years and all this money raised, there should be a cure for cancer. Drug companies won't allow there to be a cure

BS. If any company was able to fix any type of cancer, it would be on the market so fast. It's not so easy.

"X cancer" is not a single disease, even though it people usually refer to it as if it were. There are more cellular processes than you want to know that can go off the tracks and result in cells dividing inappropriately. Most of these processes are things you wouldn't want to just shut down, even if it was possible, because they're necessary for the non-cancerous cells too, just in a better regulated fashion. And it's quite often impossible to tell what has gone wrong for any single individual.

As everyone seems to be realizing above, breast cancer is funded out of proportion. It's political, sexy, and has been sold well. You can put attractive and/or famous women in ads to talk about breast cancer. Prostates and colons not so much. They don't look as nice. You also can't exactly put people with Alzheimer's in ads to talk about the disease.

Marketing ends up driving political agendas, which determine, to an unfortunate extent, how the research investments get made. Breast cancer research is projected to receive $765 million in funding from the NIH in 2011. Prostate cancer is going to get $329 million. Malaria is getting $116 million.