Breast Cancer Awareness Month should be about saving women, not boobs. Sadly, we've put so much emphasis on the body part and not the woman herself. I would imagine it is pretty offensive to some of my dear friends who have and are battling this disease.
Her post got me thinking...
While the campaign of "save the tata's" and "boobie" bracelets and men's shirts proclaiming "i'm a boob man" can argue that they're successful because they've raised money for breast cancer research, it makes me wonder if the women who are battling this find this encouraging, or just another way for people to sexualize something that doesn't need to be sexualized. Are we supporting these women or are we as a society simply saying that we wish a set of boobs didn't have to be altered in a way that doesn't simply make them more "perky"?
Campaigns to support Breast Cancer Awareness and Research should be more about supporting the women who are going through treatment, women who have come out on the other side victorious, and remembering the women who died of breast cancer and the complications surrounding it.
If we proclaim "saving the boobies", what does that say to the woman who opts to not have reconstruction done? Did she somehow lose?
Hardly.
I don't really have an eloquent ending or a good way to sum this up. It was just a little thought I had.
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