We’re facing another long month of Breast Cancer Awareness ™, in which companies show their sensitivity to the cause of breast health by peddling pink junk which, in some causes, has ingredients linked to breast cancer, or that haven’t been extensively tested for safety. This year, according to the advocacy group…
Though the NFL like, totally cares about women and their issues, especially the cancer they get, it seems like that love only goes so far. According to a report from Page Six, the league totally bungled a shoot for a new breast cancer awareness ad, leaving a breast cancer survivor and a film crew waiting for NFL…
A breast cancer charity in the UK is launching a new campaign that features images of naked breasts which will be displayed on public billboards.
Every October, the NFL festoons its players and stadiums in a cloying shade of pink and slaps its TV spots and billboards with an altruistic message: the NFL cares about breast cancer awareness, and by extension, cares about women. One thing the NFL hasn't acknowledged during its annual designated Lady Awareness Time…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from the Easton school district in Pennsylvania on a case involving two middle schoolers who were disciplined for wearing "I heart boobies" bracelets. The move lets the decision of a lower court (which ruled the students have a free speech to wear the bracelets)…
After a three-year long court battle between two girls and their Pennsylvania middle school over "I (heart) Boobies!" breast cancer awareness bracelets, the school board is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Every year, millions of American men and boys are infected with douchebaggery — a soul-fatal condition in 90% of cases. While we know frustratingly little about the causes of douchebaggery, we see its devastating effects all around: public urination, the continuing popularity of Tosh.0, and, now, this latest Useless…
Breast Cancer®, the America's Sweetheart of deadly, disfiguring diseases that it is, inspires a deluge of pink junk for sale every October. Some of that pink junk, in addition to being ugly, cloying, and infantilizing, contains chemicals that have been linked to boobs full of tumors. No Awareness™ like the Awareness™…
With all this shutdown hulabaloo, I almost forgot that October marks the annual pink barf tornado otherwise known as Breast Cancer Awareness month, a special time when corporations exploit our feelings of helplessness in the face of life's senseless brutality by directing people to Fight Cancer through the purchase of…
Despite its shiny pink public facade, breast cancer is an ugly disease that often leaves its victims disfigured. But at least women who undergo preventative double mastectomies, perhaps the most aggressive response to the disease, can rest assured that they've for sure prevented a recurrence of The Big C, right? RIGHT?
You guys, we're almost all the way done with Breast Cancer Awareness month and the ridiculousness with which a deadly, tragic disease is touted as a fluffy pink girl power affliction best fought by Ben Roethlisberger in a pink jersey. But before this 2012 Breast Cancer Trivialization season becomes one for the record…
Men notice boobs no matter where they are — under your shirt, in the written word, and, apparently, on my Facebook wall. All I had to do was post link with the headline-"No More ‘Save the Ta-Tas,' Please"-and before long, a couple of put-upon guys from my Midwestern roots swooped onto my Facebook page to tell me to…
Now, I'm not a science expert here, and I'm not a gun expert, either, but it seems slightly "off" to have a gun club sponsor an event with proceeds that benefit notorious pinkwasher Susan G. Komen For the Cure® during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. I mean, guns kill lots of people, much like breast cancer, so guns and…
It's October! You know what that means — candy shelves overstuffed with fun sized candy bars, sweaters and boots and tights and scarves in Gap commercials — and everywhere you turn, pink crap for sale under the guise that buying it means that you're promoting Awareness® of Breast Cancer. Thing is, not only is most of…
The first Race for the Cure event since a lot of people started pointing out that Komen actually kind of sucks as a charity was to be a test for the organization, and since turnout at this event was the same as last year, organizers say all's well that ends well. But is it really that simple?
A judge has sided with two Pennsylvania high school students who were suspended after wearing "I Heart Boobies" bracelets in connection with Breast-Cancer Awareness. Ruled hizzoner, the rubber bracelets "can reasonably be viewed as speech designed to raise awareness of breast cancer and to reduce stigma associated…
Good news: October's breast-cancer awareness push hasn't increased the number of diagnosed cases. Yes, you read that right.
Many school districts have banned "I (Heart) Boobies" bracelets — but now some Pennsylvania teens are suing for their right to express boobie-love.
A Mississippi high school senior was booted from his football team after wearing pink cleats in support of breast cancer awareness. Now he's back on — as long as the cleats stay off.
