Pink Ribbons - Breast Cancer

Big Sarge · 10-20-2010, 10:35 AM

In an effort to bring awareness to breast cancer, pink ribbons are everywhere. College football fields are adorned with them and the players even wear pink socks. This is all well & good, but you don't see anything for testicular cancer awareness do you? Maybe we could have a blue ribbon with 2 balls hanging from it? Or prostate cancer - we could have a brown ribbon?

just sitting here pondering.........

glatt · 10-20-2010, 10:40 AM

Fuck cancer

But I'm always amazed at the disproportionate attention breast cancer gets.

Heart disease is the number one killer of women. It isn't even close.

Lamplighter · 10-20-2010, 11:16 AM

Like so many things, it's not just one-or-the-other...

Lance Armstrong headed a major effort to publicize testicular cancer.
But campaigns need to maintain momentum to keep the $ flowing.
Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

monster · 10-20-2010, 07:14 PM

Support middle finger cancer sufferers

and we definitely needed scented brown wristbands to show our support for the fight against bowel and colon cancer.

http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23752

Trilby · 10-20-2010, 07:24 PM

I want to change the ribbon color to purple.

monster · 10-20-2010, 07:29 PM

purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying

monster · 10-20-2010, 07:31 PM

Driving my kids to swim practice last night, two cars in front of us had pink ribbons with the "hole" in the shape of a cross and the word jesus on them. I should not have said "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!". I just shouldn'ta

xoxoxoBruce · 10-20-2010, 11:00 PM

Yeah, but it's never stopped you before.

HungLikeJesus · 10-20-2010, 11:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

... "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!"...

Doesn't everyone?

Trilby · 10-21-2010, 05:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster

purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying

The gays get all the good colors...

Shawnee123 · 10-21-2010, 07:36 AM

They need to start looking at ovarian cancer: the least detectable most insidious of them all. One day you just find out you have it, after months of it's sneaking and hiding in your most inner parts, and good luck by then.

Quote:

Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

I find this incredibly ironic. Commercials about men with floppy dicks, taking pills to unflop their floppy dicks...seems to be no shame in that, nor lack of funding to find more and better ways to keep mens dicks from a'floppin'. [/soapbox]

xoxoxoBruce · 10-21-2010, 07:47 AM

TheMercenary · 10-21-2010, 09:31 AM

Good post Bruce!

Lamplighter · 10-21-2010, 09:40 AM

xoB, that's quite discouraging... but that was Pauling (d. 1994 ?)

Things have changed a lot since then.
Screening, diagnosis. and treatments for almost all
forms of cancer have actually improved in these past 15-20 years.
And even though I feel that Nixon was politically evil, I do give him credit
for starting the "war on cancer" and the NCI in the early 1970's.
So I am much more optimistic.

It's just that the public wants to believe that "CANCER" is just one thing
and some magic bullet is going to come along and cure it once and forever.
With just a few exceptions, cancer is not an infectious disease that spreads through the population.
It's a highly individual disease that needs a highly personal intervention for prevention, screening, and treatment
and for the affected person who has to go it alone, it is tragic.

glatt · 10-21-2010, 11:54 AM

According to the big graphic, 1 in 4 people will die from cancer. OK. That's serious. But what are the other 3 out of 4 going to die of? It's a cancer graphic, so they don't tell you, but the answer is heart disease and stroke.

Heart disease and stroke are the things you should be looking for. Keep those arteries clean.

10-20-2010, 10:35 AM	#1
Big Sarge Werepandas - lurking in your shadows Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: In the Deep South Posts: 3,408	Pink Ribbons - Breast Cancer In an effort to bring awareness to breast cancer, pink ribbons are everywhere. College football fields are adorned with them and the players even wear pink socks. This is all well & good, but you don't see anything for testicular cancer awareness do you? Maybe we could have a blue ribbon with 2 balls hanging from it? Or prostate cancer - we could have a brown ribbon? just sitting here pondering......... __________________ Give a man a match, & he'll be warm for 20 seconds. But toss that man a white phosphorus grenade and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

10-20-2010, 10:40 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Fuck cancer But I'm always amazed at the disproportionate attention breast cancer gets. Heart disease is the number one killer of women. It isn't even close. Attached Images Last edited by glatt; 10-20-2010 at 10:52 AM.

10-20-2010, 07:14 PM	#4
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Support middle finger cancer sufferers and we definitely needed scented brown wristbands to show our support for the fight against bowel and colon cancer. http://www.cellar.org/showthread.php?t=23752 __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-20-2010, 07:24 PM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I want to change the ribbon color to purple. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

10-20-2010, 07:29 PM	#6
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	purple is for anti-gay-teen-bullying __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-20-2010, 11:16 AM	#3
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Like so many things, it's not just one-or-the-other... Lance Armstrong headed a major effort to publicize testicular cancer. But campaigns need to maintain momentum to keep the $ flowing. Somehow, not a lot of men want to go public with their male-only diseases.

10-20-2010, 07:31 PM	#7
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Bad Mother Moment Driving my kids to swim practice last night, two cars in front of us had pink ribbons with the "hole" in the shape of a cross and the word jesus on them. I should not have said "Oh look, they want Jesus to come back with boobs!". I just shouldn'ta __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

10-20-2010, 11:00 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Yeah, but it's never stopped you before. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-21-2010, 07:47 AM	#12
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	__________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

10-21-2010, 09:31 AM	#13
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	Good post Bruce! __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

10-21-2010, 09:40 AM	#14
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	xoB, that's quite discouraging... but that was Pauling (d. 1994 ?) Things have changed a lot since then. Screening, diagnosis. and treatments for almost all forms of cancer have actually improved in these past 15-20 years. And even though I feel that Nixon was politically evil, I do give him credit for starting the "war on cancer" and the NCI in the early 1970's. So I am much more optimistic. It's just that the public wants to believe that "CANCER" is just one thing and some magic bullet is going to come along and cure it once and forever. With just a few exceptions, cancer is not an infectious disease that spreads through the population. It's a highly individual disease that needs a highly personal intervention for prevention, screening, and treatment and for the affected person who has to go it alone, it is tragic.

10-21-2010, 11:54 AM	#15
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	According to the big graphic, 1 in 4 people will die from cancer. OK. That's serious. But what are the other 3 out of 4 going to die of? It's a cancer graphic, so they don't tell you, but the answer is heart disease and stroke. Heart disease and stroke are the things you should be looking for. Keep those arteries clean.

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