Breast Cancer Awareness Month

If you haven't heard October is Breast Cancer awareness month, at least it is in America.
So let me put on some "Pink" because it's the official color of the cause.

Breast cancer awareness is a noble cause, and you may ask why the blog header picture is about Halloween and not Breast Cancer during this month. Well I see Cancer in any form as a serious disease and giving it just one month of notoriety is unjust. Plus Second Life is suppose to be about fun, Halloween is fun, cancer is not and I have lost plenty of people to Cancer.

And what is with the NFL wearing pink for a month? If some sport wants to wear pink let it be golf or bowling, Not the NFL!

Now let me dazzle you with some facts:

As you can see Breast cancer is far from the deadliest form of cancer. What month is Lung cancer awareness month? and what color do we wear that month? Men, Prostate, Colon & Rectum cancer is going to kill more of you than breast cancer.

So you ask why don't we hear as much about these other cancers as we do Breast cancer? Well that simple, BOOBIES!!! Everyone loves them, whether you're male or female from a few years before you hit puberty you care about boobs. Girls want to have them, and boys want to touch them.

In 2009, breast cancer research received $872 million worth of federal funding, while prostate cancer received $390 million. It is estimated that 2010 will end similarly, with breast cancer research getting $891 million and prostate cancer research receiving $399 million.

I believe that when a cure is discovered for one form of cancer it will lead to a cure for all forms of cancer, but the hypocrisy of singling out breast cancer as more important than any other form of cancer is ridiculous. Donate to finding a cure for cancer, but don't only be aware of it in the month of October, and NFL go back to your normal uniforms and let us women wear the pink ones. Put a little pink ribbon on your jerseys if you want, but don't change the entire uniform look for a month just to prove you like boobies!

Donate to finding a cure (all year).