"Save the Tatas"

     Let me start off this blog post by saying this; I HATE cancer. Kidney cancer/lymphoma took away my Grandpa McGee. Breast cancer still affects my Grandma Gratton to this day...she has to pump her arm every day (though she's thankfully in remission). Cancer is stupid and I wish it didn't exist, because it makes everything harder.

     That being said...

     I absolutely cannot stand the "Save the Tatas" campaign for breast cancer awareness. Whenever I see photos like this,

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or whenever I see someone wearing a similar shirt/bracelet/whatever, it ticks me off to no end. It's sexualization of Breast Cancer awareness.

     The frustrating thing about the “Save the Boobies" campaign (and similar things like the “Booberday” meme going around) is that they get it exactly backwards. Often, the point of breast cancer treatment is to destroy some or all of the boobies in order to save the woman.

     Saying that we should work to cure this disease because it threatens breasts is really upsetting to me. For starters, it suggests that women are worth saving only because they’re attached to breasts, rather than the other way around. But worse, it tells any woman who’s had a mastectomy to try to save her life that she’s lost the thing that made people care about her survival.

     What a freaking punch in the stomach.

     So yes. I'm all for the attempted message behind this campaign, but seriously. I'm not a fan.

Love and Rockets,
Marisa<3