The latest craze to sweep the internet comes in the form of young, big breasted women shoving a can of coke between their tits, taking a picture and claiming they are doing so to help raise awareness of breast cancer.
No love, you are raising penises and coke profits.
Does your picture include any facts on how to check your breasts for lumps or any other changes like dimples, discharge or rashes? Does your picture state that men can get breast cancer? Does your picture explain that you need to check your collarbone and armpits too?
Your pictures don't inspire me. They don't make me think "oh this is is a serious life threatening condition, I'd better check my own breasts"
And what about the ladies that have gone through gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy and double mastectomies. Do you think they appreciate seeing your wonderful, ample, heaving, healthy bosoms on display?
Why is breast cancer ok to sexualise? It's not sexy. It's a killer. Thousands of women are killed every year because of this bastard disease.
We lose our hair, we lose our fingernails, we suffer excruciating bone pain and fatigue. We are put on medication that shoots us into menopause. Imagine being young, diagnosed with breast cancer and having to have your womb and ovaries removed because your chances of getting ovarian cancer increases to 80% and all before you've had children.
I know I sound like a stick in the mud but I'm not going to apologise for that. Breast cancer almost killed me. I had a tough time with chemo, the doctors had to stop it early or I could have died.
As I'm writing this I am thinking ok it's a bit of fun but raise your awareness with some facts. Share a link on how to check your breasts and how often you should check them. I feel mine once a month.
I'm also thinking actually, do you know what, more power to us ladies that have gone through it. We should be proud of our bodies.
Fuck it....if you can't beat 'em, join 'em but you'd all better go check your breasts straight away. I'll post a pic showing you how to with this blog!
My darling friend Leeane is also going to share her pic with us. She's had a double mastectomy. Hopefully it will hit home. You can follow her on twitter. She's @Miss_LLC. She's all of the awesome. These pictures, these are 'The Real Thing'
Now go do some checking!
Peace, Love and Chocolate cake x 
Excellent - and very close to home. My Ma (still alive & kicking) had two bouts in her 50's & 60's ... Go YOU!
ReplyDeleteWell done you. As a fellow breast cancer "sufferer" half way through chemo and yet to have surgery I agree with all you've said .love to you and your friend Leeanne x
ReplyDeleteI went mental when the coke and tits pictures first surfaced, for pretty much all the reasons you have stated here but now you are and Leeanne are doing it properly i am totally behind YOUR campaign. well done!
ReplyDeleteFirstly thank you ALL so much for reading and sharing this. Women and men all over the world have been messaging me and Leeanne telling us their experiences and stating that they have checked themselves for the first time not knowing how to do it before. That is pretty awesome.
ReplyDeleteLeeanne has now gone viral and is hitting the national news!!
Secondly some of the comments on here have disappeared. Sorry about that, it wasn't intentional. If your comment is one of those missing THANK YOU for your kind words. I have read them all I'm just a ditz when it comes to pressing buttons.
MUCH LOVE XXX
To point out more absurdity... we dont see men holding pepsi between their butt cheeks for prostate cancer. Why breasts? Oh yeah... because their only used for sexual identity and sexual acts. /sarcasm. It makes me so angry!
ReplyDeleteTop, top post Lolly. We live in a shallow world, brimmed vacuous with ill informed people who make much more sound than they merit. Keep on keeping on girl xx
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful written piece , The Courage and Positive outlook you show is Wonderful , These are true battle scars , And I wish you all the love and good wishes in your life ahead , More Power to you .
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