Tap here to turn on desktop notifications to get the news sent straight to you. Breast Cancer Awareness is the OFFICIAL source to help people donate, educate learn and live about breast cancer. I'm hoping writing something down like this will allow people who are as infuriated as I am with these silly requests will have something to react with. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness of the disease. Today the following exact message appeared in my Facebook inbox: So here is the time of year again when we try to raise awareness for breast cancer through a game. Nairobi News is the most trusted website in Kenya that provides the latest breaking news, entertainment news, sports news, showbiz and celebrity stories. When I think Breast Cancer awareness, I think GAME, like Monopoly or Mario Kart! Women have been sharing different kind of fruits on Facebook as a way of raising awareness on breast cancer. blog.thebreastcancersite.greatergood.com Cancer Patient Sews Personalized PICC “Sleeves” for Others She Meets at Her Chemo Appointments All Rights Reserved. Of course, GAME. A message is being passed along asking women to update their status with one simple word: the color of their bra. Men wondered for days at what was going on with random colors on our walls. I don't usually rant, but something has me steaming. First, I give you permission to ignore this crap. She died of metastatic breast cancer. "Share this if you think autistic kids are special." The status update says "only send this to your girly friends." People look to us to see how we react. RAPID CITY, S.D. Breast Cancer Awareness. This year, they have decided to make reference to their love life status. Breast Cancer Awareness Month Toggle header content News A local woman, who is an Iron Man Competitor/Triathlete shares her story about battling stage 4 breast cancer. We need to focus more on awareness of cancer in general, or of types of cancer that are lesser known and preventable. Well yes, actually, I believe both of those things. I say: count me out of these Facebook games. 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The first known link between breast cancer awareness and the pink ribbon was in 1991, when pink ribbons were handed out to participants of the Susan G. Komen Foundation race in New York City. For handpicked stories every day, subscribe to our channel today. I'm going to keep my reaction short. DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS CONVO, just leave and participate. 01/17/2013 06:18 pm ET Updated Mar 19, 2013 I don't usually rant, but something has me steaming. will also keep you hooked with memes, gifs and funny videos. And all caps, no less. I've also had it with the "I'll bet most of my friends won't share this post" attempt to guilt me in to sharing something like "share this if you think domestic abuse is awful." Um, hello... men get breast cancer too. !Copy and paste this message into a new one and send to all your girly friends and update your status with your answer. January 8, 2010 (CHICAGO) It's all part of a new breast cancer awareness game that has gone viral. Where you like to put your purse or revealing your bra color won't benefit anyone who has breast cancer! Breast Cancer Awareness by GreaterGood, Seattle, Washington. Today the following exact message appeared in my Facebook inbox: So here is the time of year again when we try to raise awareness for breast cancer through a game. PHOTO | AFP, Why Habida is scared she might have breast cancer, Cancer warrior and football enthusiast, Monica Ngere, passes on, Teenage cancer warrior’s heartrending story moves Kenyans into action, Woman commits suicide after being diagnosed with breast cancer. I have stage 4 breast cancer and it is no game to me. Breast cancer groups call it a terrific tool for raising awareness about the illness. 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Last year, as part of a worldwide breast cancer awareness campaign, women wrote the color of their bra’s as their relationship status. Men are also the husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, and some of the friends, coworkers, nurses, and doctors who care for and are left grieving for people (men and women) who die of breast cancer. 154K likes. No More Stupid Games for Breast Cancer. Women have been sharing different kind of fruits on Facebook as a way of raising awareness on breast cancer.
It says it's okay to think of breast cancer awareness this way. BLUEBERRY = single; PINEAPPLE = it's complicated; RASPBERRY = I can't / don't want to commit; APPLE= engaged; CHERRY= in a relationship; BANANA=married; AVOCADO= I'm the better half; STRAWBERRY= can't find Mr. This is offensive. She was an astrophysicist, by the way. If we not only read these updates but share them, it does constitute endorsement. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2020 Nation Media Group.
I think it actually is the opposite; sharing these status updates makes people feel they are doing something real for breast cancer causes when they aren't. We should not exclude them from ANY discussion of cancer. It's important to hit them with a bold title that fully realizes the gravity of the subject. Or write back and tell them why you don't want to be included in these things anymore. Today is National Voter Registration Day! We made it easy for you to exercise your right to vote. October is breast cancer awareness month and some folks are getting a head start by raising money for the disease in a unique way. Terri is sharing instructions with cancer care staff in the hopes that the idea will spread. I also think that those of us who have had breast cancer have an obligation to speak out if we disagree with these posts. Better yet, write back to the people who have shared it. Living with metastatic cancer; Writer, www.lisabadams.com, Sign up for membership to become a founding member and help shape HuffPost's next chapter, Register to vote and apply for an absentee ballot today.
Let's do some real awareness here. Education underlies awareness. There are endless ways to do that. It is an *insult* to breast cancer survivors! 3.9M likes. Breast cancer is not a joke, awareness does not come from sharing the color of your underwear or your marital status (the whole "tee-hee, wink-wink" attitude adds to my disgust). Just because it says it's about "breast cancer awareness" doesn't mean you have to agree. Author: Alex Haskell (NCM) Published: 10:27 AM EDT September 25, 2020 This year we make references to your love life status.
Last time the underwear game was mentioned on tv, let's see if we get there with this one !!!! Do not answer to this message just post the corresponding word on your wall AND send this message privately to all the girls in your contact list!!!!!! The logo of social media website Facebook. Raisin is I want to get married to my partner.
Two years ago we had to write the color of our underwear on our wall. Nairobi News is now available on Telegram. It's very easy and I would like all of you to participate.
Let's do a piece of education right here. The above instructions are not awareness. It says we agree. And just because I didn't share them as my status update doesn't mean I do NOT agree with the statements. No one actually knows who started the game.
Subject: GAME. January 8, 2010 (CHICAGO) It's all part of a new breast cancer awareness game that has gone viral.
Anyone who has breast cancer and uses your FB status update as an indicator of whether you support their cause is not very enlightened. Pink ribbons have been synonymous with breast cancer awareness for many years, and its identity has continued to grow steadily over the past decade. ©2020 Verizon Media. Even if it ended up on TV, that still would not be educating people about breast cancer they didn't know before. More than 90% of all cancers are caused by environmental factors and are more deadly than breast cancer (i.e., harder to detect and more dangerous at earlier stages), yet few, if any, efforts are made so strongly to save lives. All it does is show the world that lots of people are willing to post silly things as their status updates. Copyright © 2020 WLS-TV.
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