“Then there was everyone wearing the pink crap for a month. “
I don’t follow football and didn’t know about this. I suppose the army will soon have a pink uniform.
I’m a woman and wonder how the heck this happened?
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....Breast Cancer awareness or something like that.
That’s all fine and good, but what about people that have other diseases? Some that are even more deadly. Brain tumors, pancreatic cancer, or liver Cancer? Why Breast Cancer? I guess it’s a woman thing. Notice they do nothing for the guys, regarding Prostate Cancer.
Why not Heart Disease, strokes, or Cirrhosis?(no one cares about people with Cirrhosis though....) With Lung Cancer and Cirrhosis, there’s a perception that those people DESERVE what they’ve gotten because they might have drank a beer or smoked at some point during their lives, so they are put on some kind of guilt trip as they are dying.(I know this, because I was in that position myself but recovered). Why does AIDS get so much attention while people with Lung Cancer or Cirrhosis are stigmatized, because they “brought it on themselves”? When someone has Lung Cancer, they have to feel obligated to talk about whether or not they ever smoked, or how much. Same with Cirrhosis and drinking. I’ve known people that have had lung cancer that never smoked in their life. I’ve known people with Cirrhosis that have never drank. When talking about it, all of them feel like they need to say “and I never did ‘X’”. As if they owe someone an explanation for their fatal illness. It’s pretty sad and screwed up.
People with AIDS just say they have it, and they get sympathy. No one even thinks about whether they screwed half the town or shared needles with someone, and for some reason, they apparently don’t feel the need to explain how their diseases ‘happened’ when talking to others about it....
Sorry about the rant....