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AGREED!  The one that really irritated me was the one last year when people were posting "colors" that were supposed to be the color of the bra they were wearing.  The day that was going around, I had one friend who just finished her chemo and one of my close friend's mother passed away that day after battling breast cancer.  My mother is also a cancer survivor, btw.  I just felt like they were trivializing a very seroius thing.  I was very offended by it.

The thing that makes me sad is not that someone would think of it but how many women play right into it.

yeah that's not breast cancer awareness that's just following a fad.

I think that breast cancer awareness gets tacked onto these stupid chain mail things to try and give it credibility.

I see a similar trend with 'religious' email forwards.  I had to tell my brother that I did not believe God worked through spam- he said he thought the message was good so he forwarded, I pointed out that any good message was negated by the "forward this to 10 people or you don't love God" ending. 

I agree with everyone! And if nobody knows what you're talking about, where is the AWARENESS anyway? Using sexual innuendos to get people to talk about  or be "aware" of breast cancer is just in very poor taste. I got this message a few months age and I ignored it. I ignored the bra one too. It's just silly.

When the bra color thing was going around, I couldn't figure it out. I got the message sent to me but it said nothing about breast cancer awareness, only that it was some game- at least the one I got. And my friend commented on it on her page, and I said something along the lines that I thought it was a pointless way to "raise awareness," if that's really what it was for...this one girl BLEW UP at me and started this angry, angry thread. All I said was if they really wanted to promote awareness, etc...post a link to a charity, event or something that actually indicated it was supporting the cause. Not the color of your undergarments.

This time, it seems like the same deal. My friend's MOM posted "I like it on the counter!" and not knowing what it was about....I was grossed.out.

@bells: I'm wondering if age plays into this or how much someone is a geek.  I agree with DeaconBride, actually - I thought it was clever.  I am a gamer nerd by heart, so cryptic messages get me thinking.  I will not stop digging through Google trying to find out the message behind the message.  This happened when I was playing Portal (the cake is a lie).  I also like finding out what messages like, "all your base are belong to us" meant when it first appeared in the online gaming world.  Cryptic messages are at the heart of gaming and lots of men are gamers.  Personally, I see the correlation.  A lot of men will see those messages and start digging to see what they mean.  Not only that, they have a sexual aspect that also appeals to men.  I think it helps intrigue men in just the right way in order to raise awareness in them.  I enjoyed it, actually, and I'm female.

Sex does unfortunately sell, as you say. But I'm not going to promote sexual innuendo on my facebook status to support a cause when I have children and teenagers as friends. What sort of message is that going to send? It's okay and funny and cool to say sexy and provocative things as long as it's for a good cause? I'm sorry, I can't get on board with that line of thinking. I understand your rationale, and I'm not knocking you for doing it.  I'm just not going to go along with it because I don't think everything needs to be sexualized for awareness.

@JenniMichele: Agree.

The big question I have though is who is NOT aware of breast cancer at this point? We are bombarded with breast cancer awareness and fundraisers all the time. If anyone is not aware by now, they are living under a rock and are not on facebook anyway. And please don't misunderstand, I am certainly not saying this is a bad thing and I have been touched by it myself. I had an aunt that died from breast cancer a few years ago, so I have a lot of sympathy for the cause and am totally proactive about it. I do Race for the Cure every year and all that, but this facebook status thing is just really lame and not promoting any real awareness that I can see. But I am not one to say what people should post as their statuses, just giving my thoughts on why I ignored the request. I don't like sexualizing anything for a cause especially when I try to set a good example for my younger fb friends.