Girls, do you ever find the "save the tatas" campaign for breast cancer awareness offensive?

[4465loveyou5577]

I've heard this said time after time as a campaign slogan, but it seems to place the importance of boobs in front of the woman's life. In my family in particular, there is a very strong history of breast cancer an when my oldest sister was diagnosed last year at the age of 33, they were able to stop the spread but she had to have a double mastectomy and now she said that campaign slogans like that make her feel like less of a woman. What do you think?

Yes

No

[fauchelevent]

I can see why it would be offensive. Rather than focusing that this is to save lives, to save a person, it focuses on their breasts and reduces them to something sexually desirable, as if the fact that these are people dying isn't enough. I don't know, I think that it's a very clever way of getting men to donate, but it's not something I like the angle of.

[4465loveyou5577]

Well, as for the getting men to donate part, I talked to my brother about it and he finds it very offensive to. Although he would be coming at the issue from a different perspective having seen two close relatives (our sister and mother) both suffer from the disease. Also, to point out the elephant in the room, men can get breast cancer too.

[fauchelevent]

Of course, that's why I said 'to save a person' rather than to 'save a woman'. However, this marketing angle is very obviously targeted at men - specifically men who are attracted to women.

[4465loveyou5577]

Well, I think pretty much all men are attracted to women (unless they're gay). But I've also seen campaigns like that attract attention from women as well, in fact I remember one girl in high school had shirt that said "save the tatas" and was showing it off to all of the other girls. As for my sister, even though losing her breasts was hard, after seeing our aunt pass away when we were little, she's happy to be alive. I even got her this shirt s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/.../...8aa14720c2.jpg
I guess if it gets more funding for the BC awareness campaign, it's a good thing but I fear it might also discourage women who are in the high risk category from getting the "Angelina Jolie" option.

[Anonymous]

I really do!