I’m very sorry about your close friend.
I wouldn’t say this month “distresses” me. I’m a tough lady. This month is just annoying.
What I can’t stand about this month are the pink ribbons on everything, the obnoxious slogans, sports teams wearing “save the ta-tas” t-shirts, and other ridiculous spectacles. And now we have this “set-the-girls-free movement.”
Humor has its place. My surgeon employed it well: She had the walls of her exam room plastered with comic strips about this very subject. Those jokes lightened the mood in that exam room.
But, in public, people do get carried away with the “awareness” this month. ;-)
What you say is true.