But don’t you “heart” boobies? 
At Vons, they want you to donate to multiple sclerosis or something at the register.
A few years back, cavelady and I went to a church service with her sorority where they were handing out carnations to promote breast cancer awareness. Wonderful, mostly older, ladies. Being helpful, I stood in the foyer with two of them, holding the supply of flowers which they passed out to everyone who entered the sanctuary. I got to listen as the phrase “Here’s a carnation for Breast Cancer Awareness Sunday” gradually decayed into “Breast Awareness” as more and more people started filing through. I did not die laughing, somehow.
I wanted to contribute by buying a bumper sticker that says “Save the Ta-Tas” for our mini van but my wife vetoed the decision.
As a gay man I can say that they are aesthetically interesting and sometimes beautiful, and they serve an important function. Don’t know if I can honestly say I <3 them though. I certainly don’t want them to get breast cancer, I can say that much.
Donate to breast cancer? Why can’t I donate to foundations engaged in fighting plantar warts, or nose hairs…or baldness?
Why can’t we jst give to one organization…like the “United Fund”?
You can - it’s called “United Way”.
Because there are no green titties?
I dare you to Google it.
Clearly you’re not familiar with an organization called Pints for Prostates. That’s the group directly responsible for me getting tested and finding out I had prostate cancer (story here). I ran a fundraiser for them this year, and I’ll definitely be doing it again. That was, by the way, my second bout with cancer (I’ve done two “ask the cancer patient” threads on SDMB: see here and here). I have not seen the same kind of marketing for lymphoma.
Why the hell do we need separate organizations (often many of them) for each individual kind of cancer anyway? It would be much more efficient just have one central cancer organization that everybody donates to that supports all kinds of research, based on various criteria.
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Why the hell do we need separate organizations (often many of them) for each individual kind of cancer anyway? It would be much more efficient just have one central cancer organization that everybody donates to that supports all kinds of research, based on various criteria.
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Cancers can be very different from each other and research that helps one won’t help all the others- although I’m not sure if that really answers the question. Certainly more information needs to be shared by researchers and not less.
One of my best friends has that bumper sticker on her car.
Much hate for that scam tactic.
I just noticed that Yoplait yogurt is doing this, but of course, with a catch… They will donate 10 cents for every yogurt top you MAIL BACK, UP TO a total of 2 million dollars to breast cancer research.
I’ll never buy another of their products again, I despise it when a company markets to a ribbon, and then can’t even have the decency to just go ahead and make the donation.
Oh, for the record, yes, you can also enter the passcodes for the tops on their website somewhere, after of course registering with them for their other promotional spam. No thanks.
Not unique to me, of course, but it does shut them up…
Chirpy twit: “Would you like to donate to breast cancer?”
Me: “I’m a biologist at the National Cancer Institute. I think I’m doing my part.”
I saw this on a list of worst “pinked” promotions yesterday. On top of buying the yogurt, you’re spending 44 cents to mail them the top so they can donate 10 cents. That’s just plain wasteful. Screw the whole thing and give directly. I don’t know why the charities think this is worthwhile.
I utterly loath those bumper stickers (along with the t-shirts and anything else with that logo). I know I’m probably reading way too much into it and taking it entirely out of the spirit in which it was intended, but I always read it as saying “Women’s lives are worth protecting just because they have breasts. We shouldn’t care about breast cancer because of the way it hurts and kills people; we should care because of the way it affects ‘ta-tas’.”
Not really. On one hand, peple know lung cancer exists, and on the other they think it’s exclusively linked to smoking.
It isn’t that bad. I think it’s safe to assume that most people who buy yogurt buy more than one cup at a time and can fit multiple lids in an envelope. It’s still pretty inefficient (even sending 20 lids is only $2 total for your ¢44 “investment”) but it’s better than sending one at a time.
As for why charities do it, would you ever object to receiving money if you were a charity? Sure, direct donations are better, but $2 million from a yogurt company is still money you wouldn’t have had without their promotion (not counting money donated by people like you who see the inefficiency of the yogurt promotion and opt to give directly.)
Most people regard a prostate exam as less pleasant than a breast exam.
Most people never get both, so there is not much of a standard of comparison.
:::snicker::: true dat… but women CAN have rectal exams for other purposes.