Faking a Pregnancy Does NOT Help Breast Cancer

I was so confused when I saw these FB statuses...did nothing to help awareness of breast cancer in my opinion!

BTW, September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. The poor children suffering from cancer get ignored because everyone skips ahead a month and goes pink in September instead of gold for the kids. I'm grateful for the job those who raise money and awareness have done for breast cancer. I have breast cancer survivors whom I love and am grateful for. But let's not forget the kids. They need a cure too.

I CAN'T STAND those ridiculous 'awareness' Facebook statuses. All it did was confuse the crap out of me until I stumbled upon a blogger who posted about it saying it was ridiculous. So not only is it excluding men who also can get breast cancer, it's confusing fellow women who apparently are supposed to knoe what the status means!

:::applauds wildly::: I recommend people do some research about "breast cancer awareness." Many of these companies with pink ribbons on the box are donating pennies and people think they are helping. Breast cancer awareness has now become a joke and the disease is no joking matter.

someone had to explain to me this latest pg one had anything to do with breast cancer awareness. I totally don't get it. In general I think putting one's money and time toward organizations, hospitals, and researchers fighting diseases is a much better use of one's time. I really don't get the status things...

Actually, I am a survivor and am also guilty of posting these games via facebook. It's amazing how we only see what we want to see - in this case.... the words 'breast cancer awareness' and don't use our intelligence with the rest!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!

Hear, hear! This survivor thanks you for keeping it real...

Amen!!

I couldn't agree more. These FB status things are RIDICULOUS and need to cease immediately.

Awareness as opposed to education.....people have to have an interest and the "I don't want to talk or think about depressing stuff, you must be manic depressive" attitude is about people who have personal problems. Sometimes it is just a lack of maturity,

As a breast cancer survivor, I also find it offensive.

Thank you. As a breast cancer survivor, I find the whole thing kind of offensive.

I was wondering why all of facebbok was claiming to be so many weeks and craving something or other. Wow that is a really dumb game. Not only that but i have a few friends that cannot concive and have gotten upset seeing so many people with these status'. def not a good idea.

Do I think the posts are obscure, ridiculous even? Absolutely. However, I do feel as though whether a direct fundraising attempt is made or not is irrelevent. Rather, these posts on Facebook and the like allow people, even teenagers, to think twice about breast cancer, to atleast, if nothing else, have some awareness of this, and perhaps go further in becoming aware. Myself, I had to inquire about these posts, as I had no clue as to what they were about. In finding they were about breast cancer, it made me think; it made me think of loved ones I know who have both survived, and passed from breast cancer, as well as other cancers, and how I should put more of my own efforts into supporting causes. Isn't that the point? To put this in the thoughts of others? I think it is working.

Well, a tweet to #StopChildAbuse doesn't do anything to actually stop child abuse. Twibbons don't change a thing in the world. Signing a petition doesn't free Americans from Iranian prisons. Putting a yellow ribbon on your car doesn't do much for the troops. Friendship or care isn't really determined by who C&P's a Facebook status. Showing your boobs on twitter doesn't do a thing for breast cancer. Why do we come up with all these odd and ultimately meaningless ways to show our support for something? Likely because in some way we feel powerless to truly effect change.

in some cases, these go beyond silly and unhelpful, and becomes downright hurtful - particularly the pregnancy one. my breast cancer was found soon after my baby was born, but many of my friends lost their fertility to their cancer treatment. They would be wonderful mothers and long for a baby. Also, adoption becomes particularly difficult if you've already had cancer. Please don't mock them.

Ditto...

Agreed! I've been seeing all sorts of talk about this the past few days. It's ridiculous.

Thank you. :)

I'm so out of the loop. I never knew what those wacky status updates were supposed to mean!