Cancer awareness movements

Gelzo

For fuck's sake, I know what cancer is and that it sucks. Posting a Facebook status isn't going to cure anyone.

Donate to medical research if you really care instead of acting like you just want other people to think you do.

nohaynicklibre

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Gelzo

Oh god, I love that Facebook meme.

LouieW

I think that a lot of the cancer awareness stuff generally has good intentions behind it and I am glad that the NFL, MLB, and the like do help generate funding for cancer research using it. Still, I wonder if breast cancer is a bit overexposed (there are other kind of cancers after all) and I cannot say I am a fan of how the color pink has become so linked to that movement.

This might sound silly, but I have the same issue with the whole "going green" thing. I prefer for colors to just be stand alone things. Plus, plenty of times I feel like people invoke breast cancer awareness or "going green" superficially or halfheartedly just because they know other people will fall for it.

RedEyedAbyss

"Going green" is where the term "greenwashing" spawned from incidentally. I find it rather amusing and unsettling that people think that buying things will help deal with a crisis caused by people consuming too much.

Evergreen

As a cancer survivor, I agree with most of what's being said in this thread. Then again, I never do status reposts anyway no matter what.

But yeah, I was presented with a Livestrong band by a close friend rather abruptly when they first came out, and I refused to wear it. I'm not much for demonstrating public support for causes, mostly because I don't have any. If you want to donate money for cancer research, fine. But I'm not gonna make a big deal out of it.

InsanityAddict

If they'd insert personal experience with someone in their vicinity having it, donation links or information on preventing the non-genetic causes, it would still be unbearable, but at least the person posting it would look a tad less like a repost robot.