recently i was sent this:
Remember the game last year about what color bra you were wearing at the moment? The purpose was to increase awareness of October Breast Cancer Awareness month. It was a tremendous success and we had men wondering for days what was with the
colors and it made it to the news.
This year's game has to do with your handbag/purse, where we put our handbag the moment we get home for example "I like it on the couch", "I like it on the kitchen counter", "I like it on the dresser" well you get the idea.
last year, i participated. my facebook status simply stated a colour. thats cool, bras, boobs, yeah i see the relation. this year women were encouraged to write about where they left their handbags.. handbags? boobs? unrelated. secondly. why not follow last years theme and once again use a color coding system? call me a prude, but in a world where everything is already oversexualised, why should something good (eg. breast cancer awareness) be marred by sexual innuendo. Men have no idea that these statuses (stati?) are about handbags, what else are they going to assume? Anyone can clearly see this is blatant sexual innuendo. Which makes me wonder
a) women don't want to be treated like a piece of meat but apparently it is okay suggest that you may like to have sex in random places on a public forum. what msg are we sending the fellas?
b) is a 13 year old boy somewhere having a massive laugh over this?(after figuring out how to get hundreds of women to post about where the like "it")
c) would you be okay with you 12 year old sister/cousin posting this.. if you had no idea about the context of the status.
maybe i'm getting old, maybe i'm traditional...
maybe i'm just a bit sick of an oversexualised culture where other people feel the need to apologize for being virgins.
the crowd is stupid.
p.s: try telling someone who's going through chemo or had a mastectomy that you're helping raise awareness by telling all your friends that you "like it on the floor".
highly disrespectful
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respect! girl, thank u so much for posting this. when i got sent this msg on FB i was quite shocked. Mom battled breast cancer this summer and Praise God she is fully clear of it.
disappointing that some of my friends would actually "fall" for this status thing thats clearly far from the point (cancer awareness)
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