It’s time to stop trivializing breast cancer with lame attempts to lighten things up. There is so much nonsense that goes on every October in the name of breast cancer awareness; it’s really quite remarkable. There could be an entire book written on October breast cancer awareness bullshit. And sadly, the bullshit is leeching out …
Advocacy
It’s that time of year again (Breast Cancer Awareness Month, in case there’s one chance in a gazillion you do not know) and I am wondering exactly how you are feeling about it this year. Do you plan to get extra ‘loud’? Do you plan to hide? Do you plan to deck yourself out in …
Sometimes I wonder why more people are not up in arms about how many women and men die from metastatic breast cancer each year, each day. Is pink ribbon culture’s fabricated illusion that buying pink stuff will solve all our breast cancer woes to blame? Is the media to blame for mostly portraying feel-good type …
Do we have to put a positive spin on everything, even cancer? Do you ever wonder why people try so hard to turn everything that happens into something positive? Me too. Maybe it’s human nature to look for the silver linings in everything that happens, including the really crappy stuff. Maybe it’s how we explain …
Do you ever wonder if what you do matters? Do you ever wonder if your voice is ever really heard? Who doesn’t, right? Sometimes I wonder about these things too. Sometimes I wonder if my little old blog makes any difference at all – I mean a real difference. Or am I mostly just preaching …