Nude beige, on the stairs

Oct 06, 2010 09:37

Internets, I am pissed off.

Remember the game last year about what color bra you were wearing at the moment? The purpose was to increase awareness of October Breast Cancer Awareness month. It was a tremendous success and we had men wondering for days what was with the... colors and it made it to the news. This year's game has to do with your ( Read more... )

that was way harsh, this is going to end well, twitter, rants

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shoiryu October 6 2010, 14:49:17 UTC
God, this. My grandmother and my aunt are both survivors of breast cancer, and this campaign is not helping.

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spectralbovine October 6 2010, 14:52:02 UTC
Oooh, that's what my friends like on the chair.

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cleolinda October 6 2010, 14:52:36 UTC
Don't you feel so aware of breast cancer now?

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spectralbovine October 6 2010, 14:58:50 UTC
I work on clinical trials for breast cancer, so I'm already pretty aware, but thank goodness I know where my friend likes her handbag. That really puts it into perspective.

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elvensapphire October 6 2010, 14:53:13 UTC
Amen.

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dwg October 6 2010, 14:57:59 UTC
Oh Cleo, thankyou so much for this.

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lea724 October 6 2010, 14:58:36 UTC
@tokaikko: @cleolinda Wait really? When I got a message trying to get me to do one of them, it didn't mention breast cancer anywhere.

I have to admit, my first thought when I read the above comment was that this is a metaphor for how I feel about organized religion, in that a message was given to the mortals and people essentially meme'd it over and over and over and took out what they wanted and added in what they wanted and thousands of years later, here we are with the supposed original message that was supposed to say one thing and it's very possible it said something completely different. *shrug*

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trvllngjwllr October 7 2010, 02:34:38 UTC
It's like Chinese Whispers, only much much worse!

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