Apparently instead of promoting research, funding and education, we ladeez are now supposed to fight breast cancer or raise awareness of it or whatever by posting our bra color in our Facebook status. Quoth a viral mail making the rounds:
“Hi gals……..had this sent to me ……some fun for us only…just write in ya status the color of ya bra nothing else just the color. and send this on by inbox only to all ya female friends NO MALES it will be neat to see if this spreads the wings of breast cancer awareness. it will also be fun to see how long it takes all the men to wonder why all the girls have a color as their status”
I was not the only person who read this and thought Are You Fucking Kidding Me?
Muchos kudos to Feminazery for this most excellent response.
Just vomit in ya bucket.
I haven’t yet gotten this which means one of two things:
1) Biannual prunings of my facebook friends list have had the intended effect of insulating me from most stupidity
or
2) Those people on my friends list who would have forwarded this to me think I’m a dude.
Honestly, I’m fine with either.
THANK YOU. I logged into Facebook yesterday and half the status updates were one-word posts (“Black.” “Pink.” “None.”) and I had *no* idea what the hell was going on. I suppose that’s good news; at least people aren’t sending me this kind of crap.
I’m not sure I’m glad to know now, but at least it’s not some FB glitch that causes everyone to post in colors.
Exactly how is this promoting anything but TMI?
My dad just asked me why all his FB friends were posting colors in their statuses. I had to explain this to the family. Yeah, this really is stupid.
What’s next – cup size postings? sheeeshh.
I loved the smackdown on Feminazery;-) I may have to post a link to that on my FB status!
Thanks so much for the awesome link to Feminazery. I just posted THAT on my Facebook wall. So, deal with it, stupid people!!!
I was hoping I’d avoided this nonsense, but no, a refresh of Facebook shows I am mistaken. “Oh, let’s be cryptically titilatting on the intertoobs! And throw in an obligatory save-the-boobs comment!” URGH.
My status is as follows:
Vegkitty is not going to post her bra color because she cares more about the women who go through the hell of breast cancer than the breasts they may or may not lose to the disease. I am more than my body parts.
Vegkitty you rock.
I posted a befuddled/annoyed status as well. I can’t believe how many adult women are doing this.
[...] The Harpies’ take: http://www.harpyness.com/2010/01/07/i-dont-give-a-damn-what-color-your-bra-is-srsly/ [...]
I am a breast cancer survivor and this is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Even dumber, though, was the comment left by a “friend” on my Facebook page after I asked in my status for people who had posted a color to explain exactly how that made them more knowledgeable about breast cancer. In her comment she said “awareness and knowledge aren’t always the same thing.”
Look up the definition of “awareness.” Guess which word is often used. Yeah, “knowledge.”
“Awareness” without knowledge is just ignorance. And that’s what this color thing is.
@JunO
I totally agree. At this point, I think most adults are AWARE of breast cancer. We know it exists. What we need is money for the development of cures and to spread information about how to prevent it.
Haha! I just received that FB message and I scratched my head and thought, how the hell is that helping anything, besides getting us all to think about our bras- not breast cancer?
Thanks for the Feminazery link!
Wow. I got this from a friend, and the breast cancer angle wasn’t even mentioned. It was just suggested as a “fun girly thing to do”. Even that was annoying — a FB version of those obnoxious email forwards that turn up in my inbox every so often.
[...] you got that recent Facebook message, asking about your bra color. The Pursuit of Harpyness was not amused — nor was [...]
Yep–this was one of the stupidest things I’ve seen on Facebook since those stupid games started showing up in my status, only with the added annoyance of not being able to hide all references to this silly little meme.
I finally got one email about this dumbass “crusade,” ignored but didn’t delete it, and this morning, someone who was included in the original message (who I don’t know) responded:
Exactly. The original sender’s response: “It’s supposed to be FUN!” YOU WILL ENGAGE IN MINDLESS TITILLATION AND YOU WILL LIKE IT.
I had no idea what was going on until this morning when I saw certain FB friends with comments about how dumb this was in their status’
The other night when I kept seeing people with “nude” in their status I just thought that old school streaking was coming back in style and I was like, “right on!”
…wait, women are suffering from breast cancer? I wasn’t aware, thank god for fb.
This was so assinine, once I found out why there were so many colours (and things like “black with lace” – lace is not a colour), my eye rolling was probably heard around the world.
Then I thought of my childhood swim coach who died at the age of 36 and left behind two young daughters, and how this is definitely the way to prevent more tragedies. UGH.
I apologize for the errors in my previous post – I’m working on consuming my coffee!
Corrections:
once I found out why there were so many colours as statuses, etc.
this is definitely the way to prevent more tragedies like hers.
There. Back to my grande colombia.
Oh, and now I just received it again from a different friend, and this time it mentions breast cancer awareness. I replied with some links that are actually *helpful*. Sheesh.
Thank you so much for this post! I seem to have spectacularly silly friends, ALL of whom’ve joined on the bandwagon.
My status now quotes the first comment on the Feminazery post: okay, now please describe the colour of your morning dump to raise awareness of bowel cancer.
apparently, this is what started this meme:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/breast-cancer-awareness-I-updated-my-Status-with-my-Bra-colour-/236028229023?ref=mf
If we really want to help with breast cancer awareness and use a ‘promotional tool’ to assist that goal….how about this “pink glove dance” from hospital workers in Portland, Oregon….pretty neat actually!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw
Ohh Becky, thank you for posting this, it’s nice to share a little rant about this idiocy. I banged my head against various hard surfaces after first reading about the meme and continue increasingly frowny with every person who takes part. I would dearly like to link your post on FB, but I’ve done quite a lot alienating of facebook friends already recently.
Unrelatedly and without wishing to threadjack, for anyone who hasn’t had their fill of fury today I give you: The Miss Earth Beauty Pagaent. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2010/jan/08/miss-earth-2010
I got this meme from a high school pal I friended at her request. I haven’t seen or talked to her in some 13 years now but apparently she thought me close enough to want to know what color my underthings are. Yeah…
Yeah really. I got this, and thought “Who cares what color my underwear is?” My grandmother had breast cancer, and this seems like a cheap way of “spreading awareness.”
Interesting – I didn’t get an email or message, but I did see a bunch of my guy friends posting their favourite colours because they didn’t know what was going on.
My fb status is “none of your f’ing business. Don’t mess with us survivors.”
What the hell is wrong with this country?
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