Thanks a lot

and we are telling you to FUCK OFF and leave our male spaces alone.

And again, pink isn’t awareness. I don’t watch a lot of the NFL but I watched the Browns game, and there was enough awareness to know the pink was for breast cancer. That’s it.

If I’m wearing an Alabama shirt, I’m spreading Alabama awareness. But I’m not doing anything to help, and in fact I could be a BGSU fan and donating my money to killing baby panda bears for their silky soft fur. But my shirt? All Alabama awareness.

Pink shoes on a green and white uniform looks ridiculous. But I’d be ok with it if it actually did anything. I watched the game and they never said how I could help or what the pink shoes were doing to fight breast cancer, just that we are all “aware” of breast cancer. I hear you a little bit on the stigma of cancer, except I don’t know anyone who hasn’t been affected by cancer. Regardless, that’s why I think it’s important to do anything to help, not to just wear a color that stands out.

As a football fan … I had actually never really noticed or cared. I’m usually too busy yelling, shouting and eating, as it should be.

In reality, the pink towel does absolutely nothing. And really, if you want to support breast cancer research or awareness, skip all the pink accessories and donate you’re ten dollars directly.

But in this case, that is neither here nor there.

As far as why breast not lung (or for that matter, heart disease, number one killer of women. More prevalent, less dramatic).

Support for breast cancer is so much more prevalent because it strikes specifically at the people we as a society tend to revere most (mothers) or think of as generally weaker, or need to be protected. Essentially, breast cancer strikes specifically at what is considered the “heart of society” so people are more likely to rise up against it.

But as far as wearing pink for support when, in reality, just donning a color does nothing, that’s all about mentality and branding.

Those battling the cancer and cancer survivors identify with pink as the color of the fight, so while they know it does nothing to wear it, they see it as a sign of solidarity, and that’s who the football players are doing it for.

So, if it brightens the day of even one terminally ill woman, it’s probably worth it.

Again, I acknowledge the futility of wearing pink whole heartedly. It does nothing, statistically, for awareness, stopping cancer or anything like that, but if it makes them feel better, and the affected women watching feel better, it’s probably not that bad a thing.

But I am curious … would you feel less strongly about this if the color for breast cancer awareness were say …. dark blue or yellow? Not trying to incite anything, just trying to understand from a marketing/public sentiment perspective.

Nobody said anything about women not watching football?

Also, do the players have a choice to not wear pink stuff? I don’t think they actually do?

And the point isn’t that they support someone who has or had breast cancer. The point is that they wear pink. Which does nothing. I’m wearing green. Nothing is happening.

But I raised money, I showed people where to donate their time and money, and I raised over $6k in one race alone. And I hate running.

Why not honor the men who die from cancer though? Why just the women you mention? That part I don’t get. Breast cancer kills everyone, including men. It’s more offensive that you don’t care about the men with breast cancer than me not wearing pink while I donate my time and money to research, not awareness.

But more men and women get colon cancer regardless and I don’t see anyone doing anything for that———I also don’t hear anyone complaining about it when the players aren’t wearing pink what they aren’t doing for colon cancer. Saying wearing pink shoes is standing up for something is like saying I support animal rights by eating cereal.

This isn’t about cancer. This is about pink uniforms. Cops don’t do it. Think they should?

Me either.