I watched some of the Vikes/Packers game yesterday and saw their pink (or magenta as it looked on our tv) wrist bands, shoes, hats etc. in honor of breast cancer awareness month. Any kind of cancer awareness campaign is good, but it bugs me a little that breast cancer seems to get the lion's share of attention. This article says that heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. Heart health awareness seems to have picked up recently, though, and they have their month, too - February. Lung cancer kills more women than breast cancer; smoking being the obvious cause of most cases. So, we don't see sports guys run around wearing a certain obnoxious color of wristband that supports lung cancer awareness, because most people know the risks of smoking. Which brings me back to breast cancer - we aren't frequently made aware of all the risk factors. Breast cancer awareness usually focuses on promotion of screenings/early detection and such, while the fact that the birth control pill is listed as a carcinogen according to the World Health Organization and can increase a woman's risk of contracting breast cancer is largely ignored by the popular media.
Now to the most disturbing pro sports trend. The long goofy Milli Vanilli hair on some of those dudes. I don't approve. What's next, will they wire up their dreads Pippi Longstocking style?
And this whole thing with Favre - it's still so odd seeing him in purple (especially purple + hot pink).
And I never thought I'd type the word 'breast' this often in a post.
3 comments:
Should have just watched the Twins instead ;-)
I guess we have selective empathy when it comes to people dying from cancer. Awareness months are a complete joke. Race for the cure should be called Race for expensive treatments. More money should be put into prevention than anything else.
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