Breast Cancer - odd choice?

[Boo!]

Nov 5, 2013 15:24:56 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Nov 5, 2013 14:56:40 GMT -5 @supersweetbotch said:

Yes WWE is mostly watched by men but everyone has a mother and a grandmother. So yeah it directly impacts all of us.

this right here.

So if you had an audience of millions of men, some of the biggest TV role-models/idols for men aged 14-20, with testicular cancer a growing killer because of the lack of awareness/promotion of it - and you had to pick a health issue to raise awareness of, you'd think it sensible to go for Alzheimer's on the basis that 'everyone has an elderly relative'? Most kids know someone who smokes. Most women knows someone who drinks. Yet if you have a young audience or a female audience there's a reason why the issues that get attention are young and female issues respectively.

I don't understand this at all. Women are so much better at this. Female targeted shows often have awareness weeks/campaigns about health and social issues affecting women. Domestic violence, ovarian cancer, rape and all the rest of it. All worthy, worthy causes. They don't do awareness campaigns on prostate cancer on the basis that 'every woman has a father' because that'd just be simply ridiculous. You don't raise awareness indirectly, you raise it directly with the audience that you're speaking to. It's a crying shame the amount of ignorance and death that testicular cancer makes and it's unfortunate when you see a company like WWE who could make a HUGE difference but instead ignores .

[Deleted]

Do I need to say that technically not all men have testicles, just like how not all women have ovaries?

And that to have this complaint during them doing a Breast Cancer Awareness drive for a charity (that isn't really a charity at all) comes off as really disingenuous?

[Sephiroth]

You'd prefer colon cancer?

[rybackrulez]

So we had movember instituted at work i already have a beard

By the end of the month i will look like a wyatt

Somebody should tell a story of how their uncle got breast cancer and died way faster after diagnosis as breast cancer for men is typically a death sentence

[KobashiChop]

As previously mentioned, its the pinkwashing senation. Breast cancer awareness is the fashionable thing in October.

[Boshek]

Nov 5, 2013 8:45:26 GMT -5 @burngun said:

I'd just wish they stopped using Susan G. Komen. I know its widely documented already, but they hardly give any of their actual revenue to cancer research. They aren't a charity, they're just an advertising firm for breast cancer.

Yes yes yes.

And what does the WWE do with the other portion of sales from pink gear?

[Vice honcho room temperature]

Nov 5, 2013 18:10:42 GMT -5 rybackrulez said:

So we had movember instituted at work i already have a beard

By the end of the month i will look like a wyatt

Somebody should tell a story of how their uncle got breast cancer and died way faster after diagnosis as breast cancer for men is typically a death sentence

We can bring Bob Barker on

[SEAN CARLESS]

Nov 5, 2013 17:15:16 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

You'd prefer colon cancer?

I hate Los Matadores, but I'd never wish that on them.

[Deleted]

The reason should be obvious enough, but I'll spell it out anyways -- the reason why they don't do it is because women are a higher 'value' of victim in our society, and the most numerically effective way of raising funding for it is to ignore the male victims and treat it as an explicitly and exclusively female-victim scenario (as we do with so many other facets of life), which is why female cancers have over 13 times the funding-to-fatality ratio of men's cancers.

Consider this: in a week, we will be honouring the brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. Female war dead over the last few generations are about the same level of statistical minority as male breast cancer victims. Yet we (rightfully, I must reiterate) honour their sacrifices all the same.

The answer, of course, is that part of Movember should involve reaching out to these sports leagues and asking for ANY coverage or consideration, since any would be better than the 'zero' they get. The NHL at least has a gender-neutral "Hockey Fights Cancer" movement with some of the charitable partners being men's cancers, and they certainly make plenty of opportunity to use the ubiquitous 'hockey player stash' for Movember awareness.

[rybackrulez]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYw7HX5sJxk&feature=youtube_gdata_player

If cody grows a stache again

[Deleted]

Nov 5, 2013 17:15:16 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

You'd prefer colon cancer?

Just think of all the money raised through sales of brown you can't see me shirts.

[Herman The Tosser]

Nov 5, 2013 21:42:50 GMT -5 Boshek said:

Nov 5, 2013 8:45:26 GMT -5 @burngun said:

I'd just wish they stopped using Susan G. Komen. I know its widely documented already, but they hardly give any of their actual revenue to cancer research. They aren't a charity, they're just an advertising firm for breast cancer.

Yes yes yes.

And what does the WWE do with the other portion of sales from pink gear?

This is a very interesting article about Breast cancer consumerism, and people painting any old shite pink and donating not very much to the actual cause. Written by a survivor of breast cancer, to boot:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/sep/30/pinktober-consumerism-breast-cancer-awareness?CMP=twt_gu

[Hit Girl]

I'm surprised they haven't greenwashed the company and jumped onto the environmental-friendly bandwagon

[frankincleveland]

They do a little bit when USA and the other NBC/Universal/Comcast/whatever channels do their green week.

And as my mom had it, I can say she was sick of all the pink stuff before she got it and much more sick of it after.