Help Breast Cancer Research and Search
A neat idea this. If you use the Find With Pink search engine (which uses Google) then ad revenue generated goes to breast cancer research.
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October 19th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Nice idea, but does it have to be so… pink?
October 19th, 2007 at 6:22 pm
I like pink. What’s wrong with pink. are you saying pink is somehow a lesser colour than say red, just because it is LABOUR’S colour? You disgust me.
sorry.
October 19th, 2007 at 6:44 pm
Slightly off topic, but I can’t help mentioning that I received a pink pen from Chris Carter a couple of weeks ago after we were “moved” into his electorate at the behest of whoever rezones these things. It was accompanied by a letter welcoming us to his patch and full of the usual platitudes.
Two questions:
Why pink Chris? and
Did the taxpayer pay for it?
G
October 19th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
“Nice idea, but does it have to be so… pink?”
I created findwithpink.com and i’m just in the middle of adding other colour options (thanks to your comment)..
Cheers
Tom
October 19th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Down with the EFB oh wait…
October 20th, 2007 at 12:00 am
the majority of breast cancer is amongst women, and pink is the colour generally associated with femininity – it is a good branding exercise.
I don’t mind the campaigns being pink, or focused on women primarily. In the prevention and cure of breast cancer they are the most important target, as they represent the majority of breast cancer cases. Breast cancer in men in a minority, and nowhere near as emotionally charged.
It is however important for us to remember that guys do get breast cancer, although it is rare. A much more common condition for men is something called “gynocomastia”. All guys have fibro-fatty and glandula tissue in their breast area – some guys have a lot of glandula tissue in the area which gives the impression of “man boobs”. This does not respond to exercise and can only be removed with surgery. It won’t kill you, it just looks bloody awful.
Despite me noticing that the majority of the material is targeted at women, i’m not overly concerned about it.
If you want to have a discussion about how the breast cancer campaigns target women too much, get over yourselves, it should predominently campaign to women. Men do get breast cancer, and I think men should be willing to look for the signs. I do however think the bigger risk to men is prostate cancer, and I do believe that men should be demanding greater publicity and support for that cause. Movember is a great campaign. Male health risks do not recieve anywhere near enough attention.
If you want to talk about breasts and men, feel free to discuss gynocomastia instead. In Australia medicare pays a pretty big rebate on medical procedures to remove gynocomastia if the claim is approved, which it often is. In Australia women get rebates on all breast reduction procedures. In New Zealand I understand that it is difficult for even women to get breast reduction through the public health system.
Incidentially I’m getting a mamogram on monday as a pre-screening for a breast reduction surgery next month. Oh yeah, even though i’m a young, pretty healthy male and the reason for the mamogram is just as a precaution before the surgery, it is covered by australian medicare (i’m a New Zealander btw). I’ve got to say the aussies are a lot ahead of NZ in health funding.
October 20th, 2007 at 12:03 am
bugger – just noticed how my last post repeated itself too much – don’t post blog comments when sleepy
October 20th, 2007 at 12:26 am
Pink is pretty like pussy (see my Bebo page: http://www.bebo.com/JesusCruxRH).
October 20th, 2007 at 12:43 am
now if they could only design a web page so that you could read it easily.