re: My local post office is covered in pink breast cancer stuff

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Mo Jeaux

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#metoo

You’re acting like a bleeding vagina over cancer detection awareness. You may want to get some fresh air.

It seems a lot of people are missing what I believe to be the point of your post.

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I’m sure that this year they had a bunch of stuff up for prostate cancer awareness too, right?

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It goes back to an old joke I heard, a comedian is making a point about the difference in men and women so he asks the audience to finish the phrase "happy wife..." and they all shout "happy life!" Then he continues with "happy husband..." to be met with dead silence and then laughter as everyone realizes the point.

Men require far less attention than women. While breast cancer awareness is a worthwhile and noble thing, we've had a whole month dedicated to it for decades and is so highly and heavily celebrated that it's practically part of the zeitgeist (at least in October).

Prostate cancer awareness month began in 1999, yet I would wager the vast majority of people would not know it even exists as a campaign. I don't remember seeing ads, special uniform pieces nor anything else for it even in men's sports, yet the wearing of pink in October is almost mandatory unless you want to be called anti-woman or some shite, like a reverse of The Scarlet Letter.

For me, the point is the next time I hear someone squawking about how women don't have "equal rights," I'll ask them to compare the difference between the levels of awareness the public and media put towards the two campaigns.

Tiny fraction of donations at the S Komen Foundation goes to its intended purpose from what I've read. Same with other charities, top heavy with people that need to be paid very well. Donate at your own risk

Weird equality hill to die on. There’s not a straight man on earth who is against the protection of titties.

Given you’re more interested in the protection of assholes, it says a lot more about you than the post office.

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Tiny fraction of donations at the S Komen Foundation goes to its intended purpose from what I've read. Same with other charities, top heavy with people that need to be paid very well. Donate at your own risk

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From their 2025 disclosure form, roughly 13% goes to research and 55% goes to education, screenings, financial aid, etc (all under the category of "patient care").

Another 4% goes to "advocacy" (lobbying politicians and legal work, mainly). While Komen lumps this in with mission aspects, I separated it out because I could see the point of arguments stating it was more management/administrative.

About 19% goes back into fundraising and 9% goes to management/general administrative costs (meaning ~28% goes to overhead while ~72% goes to their core mission).

A good rule of thumb on charities by the BBB is that no more than 35% should go toward management/fundraising while Charity Navigator puts it at 30% and Charity Watch sets it at 25%.

Depending on how you view "advocacy", the Komen Foundation either does or does not meet the criteria of an efficient charity based on the most popular determinants.

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equality hill

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Did you read and understand the original post?

If this bothers you so much, then start the awareness campaign.

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Least important thing to worry about.

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LOL agree. But, since this is a thread about breast cancer awareness. I will bring up a point that makes my feelings towards this movement/campaign a lot negative.

My issue is that they don't do anything (for the most part) other than advertise the people get breast cancer. They don't do hardly anything at all on trying to cure cancer. Such as waste of money.

Why I see when I see those pink ribbons is "Give us money to buy all of these pink ribbons and since we SAY we care we are doing something good".

This is the most beta post of all time