This is your quasi-monthly non-faith-related rant...
With due respect to all you ladies out there, I have had my fill with the breast cancer awareness campaign. I see that stupid pink ribbon freakin' everywhere. I saw it today on a canister of salt, of all things! I saw that and thought, y'know, I'd like to start a blue ribbon campaign for prostate cancer, which, like breast cancer among women, is second-leading cancer among men and second-leading cause of cancer deaths. It is also the fifth-leading cause of death among men over 45. So why is it so important to promote breast cancer awareness and totally ignore prostate cancer? Better yet, why not promote lung cancer awareness, which bests both of them?
I'm waiting for the pink ribbon to appear on quarts of milk.
On top of all that, the Komen Foundation funds breast-cancer programs at Planned Barrenhood.
I'm waiting for the breast cancer survivor groups to stop excluding male breast cancer survivors. I'm also waiting for the general population to realize that breast cancer is a men's issue too.
My grandfather had breast cancer that--thankfully--has since gone into remission. Nonetheless, most survivor support groups wouldn't let my grandmother join a spouse support group because "We're about the women." My grandmother is a woman too, but I suppose they just didn't notice...
Good point, Kat! Sadly I had completely forgotten about men with breast cancer. Pity the poor man afflicted with it.
For every man with breast cancer, there are 140 women with it.
One main cause is estrogen, so men with breast cancer have the double whammy of not only being associated with a women's disease, but having as its cause an excess of women's hormones. If it's not due to estrogen, it might be due to cirrhosis of the liver, so maybe you're just a drunk. If you're lucky though it's due to a very rare genetic disorder.