Because Noone has heard of Boob Cancer

[surferskin 30]

In all seriousness though...if it was a one week deal of wearing pink then that would be fine but it's a quarter of the whole damn season! Can you imagine if baseball did this crap? The Yankmees would be wearing pink pinstripes for -40- focking games!

[Serpent 51]

It's obviously a pure marketing ploy. There is nobody alive now in the US that isn't "aware" of breast cancer, and with all the money sunk into it and women's health care in general, I can't imagine women not getting their exams and treatment. Also I can't imagine cancer is anywhere near that prevalent, since otherwise women of third world countries would all have died out. Or heck, women outside of the US period, because no other country spends this amount of money on it. If it was up to me US women would be the last I'd want to save, but I digress.

 

Ironically, most men actually fund women's health care through collectively higher premiums, but the argument for jacking up car insurance rates on men is that they are a liability (when in fact all statistics show men are considerably safer drivers, but those men that drive considerably more will get into more overall accidents than women who don't drive much at all). Try applying the same arguments across the board to both issues and it creates a giant contradiction.

 

Feminists made up statistics about men beating up women during the Super Bowl. They had free reign to stick this into popular culture, with other fembots repeating it, and then the average stupid member of our population quoting it as fact. This of course got debunked, but whenever you debunk a feminist myth you face extreme resistance, so it is still fairly well accepted.

 

With this pink breast cancer awareness thing for a month, the idea is that the feminists will lay off the NFL. They probably will not, but that's the hope.

[Jules 0]

Because they market it and sell it off and make a crap ton of money (for themselves and Breast Cancer research).

 

And glad your mother beat it...mine too about 6 years with clean scans since then.

 

Congrats to both your moms for beating it.

 

One gripe I have as a woman(yes we do sign up on FF forums) and I'll probably get a backlash from this is how poorly the funds are allocated and how much of that goes to ACTUAL research. I've done the Susan G. Koemen walk for a few years in the past in Chicago (love you Chicago D)and it's absurd that they MAKE you raise a certain amount money and if you don't meet the floor, you cannot participate, but they still take the money you've raised up to that point.

 

Regardless, not bashing breast cancer awareness, I'm a true advocate of it, but they're definitely not doing it out of the goodness of their bleeding hearts, they stand to make a ton of money from "public education" with their own agendas in mind, that's for sure.

[Larry David 20]

Noone is not a word.

[surferskin 30]

Noone is not a word.

 

Yer rite iz 2.

[jerryskids 6,169]

 

One gripe I have as a woman(yes we do sign up on FF forums) and I'll probably get a backlash from this is how poorly the funds are allocated and how much of that goes to ACTUAL research. I've done the Susan G. Koemen walk for a few years in the past in Chicago (love you Chicago D)and it's absurd that they MAKE you raise a certain amount money and if you don't meet the floor, you cannot participate, but they still take the money you've raised up to that point.

 

 

On a side note, my daughter is a Type 1 Diabetic and we are gearing up for our second annual JDRF Walk, which has absolutely no minimum donation/fundraising requirement to walk. But a lot of people think it does because of the Koemen walk requirement, which I agree is dumb. Part of my shpiel to people includes "as opposed to the Koemen walk..."

[travis_henrys_baby_momma 10]

A heck of a lot of people die from cancer each year, the focus on breast cancer and the Susan G Komen foundation is a misguided.

 

For "the vast majority" of the cancers, death rates are higher among men than women. Why? Because men don't go to the doctor when they recognize something is wrong, nor do they see a physician as often as women, or get recommended cancer screenings. If the NFL truly cared about fighting cancer deaths they would target both men and women.

 

Further breast cancer deaths are just a fraction of overall cancer deaths. Ten cancers that killed the most people in the United States between 2003 and 2007:

 

1. Lung and bronchial cancer: 792,495 lives

2. Colon and rectal cancer: 268,783 lives

3. Breast cancer: 206,983 lives

4. Pancreatic cancer: 162,878 lives

5. Prostate cancer: 144,926 lives

6. Leukemia: 108,740 lives

7. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: 104,407 lives

8. Liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer: 79,773 lives

9. Ovarian cancer: 73,638 lives

10. Esophageal cancer: 66,659 lives

[Sho Nuff 720]

Congrats to both your moms for beating it.

 

One gripe I have as a woman(yes we do sign up on FF forums) and I'll probably get a backlash from this is how poorly the funds are allocated and how much of that goes to ACTUAL research. I've done the Susan G. Koemen walk for a few years in the past in Chicago (love you Chicago D)and it's absurd that they MAKE you raise a certain amount money and if you don't meet the floor, you cannot participate, but they still take the money you've raised up to that point.

 

Regardless, not bashing breast cancer awareness, I'm a true advocate of it, but they're definitely not doing it out of the goodness of their bleeding hearts, they stand to make a ton of money from "public education" with their own agendas in mind, that's for sure.

 

Agreed with you here and Komen does not get a dime of my money.

Id rather put it to organizations who don't have such a high overhead cost and history of fraud in them.

They have done well for the cause...but they also hurt it with their own actions (and completely going after anyone who uses "pink" or "for the cure" kind of thing in any advertising).

 

And Ive known 3 that have beaten in (mom...Grandma...and a cousin). Some strong women for sure.

 

Anything I donate now I do more towards childhood cancer research as it gets way less attention and funding.

[Sho Nuff 720]

A heck of a lot of people die from cancer each year, the focus on breast cancer and the Susan G Komen foundation is a misguided.

 

For "the vast majority" of the cancers, death rates are higher among men than women. Why? Because men don't go to the doctor when they recognize something is wrong, nor do they see a physician as often as women, or get recommended cancer screenings. If the NFL truly cared about fighting cancer deaths they would target both men and women.

 

Further breast cancer deaths are just a fraction of overall cancer deaths. Ten cancers that killed the most people in the United States between 2003 and 2007:

 

1. Lung and bronchial cancer: 792,495 lives

2. Colon and rectal cancer: 268,783 lives

3. Breast cancer: 206,983 lives

4. Pancreatic cancer: 162,878 lives

5. Prostate cancer: 144,926 lives

6. Leukemia: 108,740 lives

7. Non-Hodgkin lymphoma: 104,407 lives

8. Liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer: 79,773 lives

9. Ovarian cancer: 73,638 lives

10. Esophageal cancer: 66,659 lives

 

Yeah...but save the boobs sounds better than save the @ssholes.

[Serpent 51]

Agreed with you here and Komen does not get a dime of my money.

Id rather put it to organizations who don't have such a high overhead cost and history of fraud in them.

They have done well for the cause...but they also hurt it with their own actions (and completely going after anyone who uses "pink" or "for the cure" kind of thing in any advertising).

 

And Ive known 3 that have beaten in (mom...Grandma...and a cousin). Some strong women for sure.

 

Anything I donate now I do more towards childhood cancer research as it gets way less attention and funding.

 

Pretty much everything that is packaged as for charity or education is a scam. Somebody always stands to make a substantial profit, and they do so by suckering in people that want to do something positive but are too lazy or ignorant as to how to best allocate that money or effort.

 

I have for most of my working life set out 2.5% of my income every year to donate to a cause. As of yet I haven't found a truly great way to do it so that it all goes to the truly needy. So far the best thing I've been able to figure out is to either buy the clothing or food and directly hand it out or try to feed people. So that means showing up in a food kitchen or a shelter. But if I could I'd definitely be trying to donate to other causes and try to make more of an impact. Oh well, whatever I guess (yes I am guilty of what I wrote in the first paragraph, I don't mean lazy as a huge criticism, it's tough).

[Sho Nuff 720]

Pretty much everything that is packaged as for charity or education is a scam. Somebody always stands to make a substantial profit, and they do so by suckering in people that want to do something positive but are too lazy or ignorant as to how to best allocate that money or effort.

 

I have for most of my working life set out 2.5% of my income every year to donate to a cause. As of yet I haven't found a truly great way to do it so that it all goes to the truly needy. So far the best thing I've been able to figure out is to either buy the clothing or food and directly hand it out or try to feed people. So that means showing up in a food kitchen or a shelter. But if I could I'd definitely be trying to donate to other causes and try to make more of an impact. Oh well, whatever I guess (yes I am guilty of what I wrote in the first paragraph, I don't mean lazy as a huge criticism, it's tough).

 

Well...I do donate and raise money for one that I know allocates the money well (given I went to college with the founders and they started it to raise money for childhood cancer research after their daughter died of neuroblastoma).

That and you can find information out there on how much these charities are donating vs. what their overhead costs are and how much administrative crap is coming out of your money.

[Frozenbeernuts 1,883]

It's obviously a pure marketing ploy. There is nobody alive now in the US that isn't "aware" of breast cancer

First of all, what is breast cancer?

 

Also I can't imagine cancer is anywhere near that prevalent, since otherwise women of third world countries would all have died out.

Second, your missing the focking point. We here in the United States of America love us some bewbage. If you don't like bewbage you can get the fock out and go live with some foreign woman with half a breast.

 

If it was up to me US women would be the last I'd want to save, but I digress.

Last of all, your a pinko comie. So what if so many American women are stuck up and think they deserve to be treated like a princess. They have the coveted vag. I still won't treat them that way just for the hell of it, but they do make a convincing argument.

[Serpent 51]

Well...I do donate and raise money for one that I know allocates the money well (given I went to college with the founders and they started it to raise money for childhood cancer research after their daughter died of neuroblastoma).

That and you can find information out there on how much these charities are donating vs. what their overhead costs are and how much administrative crap is coming out of your money.

 

Where are you finding the information? Is there a good resource somewhere? I don't really trust them to tell me.

[Joey Gladstone 33]

 

And glad your mother beat it...mine too about 6 years with clean scans since then.

 

Thats good to hear!

[RamslovaMartzhata 3]

The NFL is still wearing pink for a whole focking month?

 

 

This program has directly raised $3 Million for Breast Cancer going into it's 4th year (Auctions and retail sales). Who knows how much awareness or how much money it's raised past that... but I am willing to bet it's substantial. I don't know what your problem is... I mean... get over it.

[WMagnum1 4]

I think they would do better by featuring commercials with some of these guys with their shirts off (Gronk ) than the whole breast cancer thing.

 

 

w.hore those mother effers out. That's what would bring the women in. JMHO

 

Can size?

 

(I'm surprised it wasn't asked by now. Shame on the forearm!)

[posty 2,491]

Get ready for pink penalty flags this week...

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/11-old-boy-convinced-nfl-pink-penalty-flags-183137397--nfl.html

 

You've seen pink all over the NFL's fields through October as part of the league's Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign, but there will be a new twist this Sunday when the Miami Dolphins face off against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium. And it's all thanks to an 11-year-old boy with an interesting idea who decided to share it with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell via a handwritten letter.

 

"My name is Dante Cano. I am 11 years old and I am from Marlboro, New Jersey. I wanted to know if you could use my idea of pink penalty flags in October for breast cancer awareness," Cano wrote.

 

Goodell was impressed.

 

"Dante had a great idea and I am looking forward to meeting with him on Sunday to put it into action," Goodell said in a statement. "Sometimes the simplest ideas can be the best. I applaud Dante for sending in his recommendation."

 

The NFL will do more than applaud young Dante for his initiative -- the fifth-grader will be on the field with his family to present the flags to the officials.

 

Those who are complaining about the sissification of the NFL with more pink gear -- and there have been many such complaints about the increase in the most feminine of colors -- can go fly a kite. If there's one thing the young man's letter proves, it's that the NFL's awareness campaign is working ... and among some pretty interesting demographics.

[Franknbeans 46]

In all seriousness though...if it was a one week deal of wearing pink then that would be fine but it's a quarter of the whole damn season! Can you imagine if baseball did this crap? The Yankmees would be wearing pink pinstripes for -40- focking games!

pipe down you boob-hating homo

[t-birdie 8]

It's obviously a pure marketing ploy. There is nobody alive now in the US that isn't "aware" of breast cancer, and with all the money sunk into it and women's health care in general, I can't imagine women not getting their exams and treatment. Also I can't imagine cancer is anywhere near that prevalent, since otherwise women of third world countries would all have died out. Or heck, women outside of the US period, because no other country spends this amount of money on it. If it was up to me US women would be the last I'd want to save, but I digress.

 

Ironically, most men actually fund women's health care through collectively higher premiums, but the argument for jacking up car insurance rates on men is that they are a liability (when in fact all statistics show men are considerably safer drivers, but those men that drive considerably more will get into more overall accidents than women who don't drive much at all). Try applying the same arguments across the board to both issues and it creates a giant contradiction.

 

Feminists made up statistics about men beating up women during the Super Bowl. They had free reign to stick this into popular culture, with other fembots repeating it, and then the average stupid member of our population quoting it as fact. This of course got debunked, but whenever you debunk a feminist myth you face extreme resistance, so it is still fairly well accepted.

 

With this pink breast cancer awareness thing for a month, the idea is that the feminists will lay off the NFL. They probably will not, but that's the hope.

 

Maybe it's about time to start devoting some attention to prostate cancer? It kills as many men as breast cancer does women and the prognosis for survival is much worse. We spend twice as much on the research of breast cancer, and the "public awareness" of prostate cancer is nearly zero. Prostate cancer is successfully treated if caught early but it shows no signs early. Wouldn't that be a great disease to make people "aware" of - compared to ANOTHER breast cancer program?

 

Oh wait, I just discovered September is prostate cancer awareness month. I guess I missed that. I'm sure all of you guys were well aware though.