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Oh my gosh! I had the most unimaginable thing happen yesterday!!! I kicked off a school-wide fundraiser for a new charter school (they are raising money for a building) and had a table outside the portables with products, hands-on demos, etc. I also had the HWC products out. I said nothing about them to these two ladies who came up and commented on them. They asked and I said $1 from each sale of these products goes to ACS - and one lady cut me off. She said breast cancer awareness was a scam!!! A way to make money!!! I was so flabbergasted that I said nothing. She and the other lady went on to discuss how "we KNOW what causes breast cancer. It is deodorant and tight bras. Just tell everyone to wear natural deodorant - I do, and so what if I smell? - and looser bras and we won't have breast cancer anymore." I was SO glad no one else was there...school hadn't let out yet. I really had to hold myself back...I wanted to grab her and shake her and tell her that the reason so many women die of breast cancer is that they don't know what to look for - which means education and awareness is a good thing. Imagine how much less money we would have to spend on insurance as a nation if breast cancer was caught early!!!!! Then I wanted to tell her that there are a LOT more causes of breast cancer. Let me name a few: genes, location (ie. downwind of nuclear tests - although that one hasn't been totally proved), housing (old houses with lead in the paint, asbestos), smoking, being around smokers, what we eat and don't eat, exercise or lack there of, etc. Then I wanted to show her how tight my bra had to be so I could walk normally - sorry for the TMI, but I was a bit upset. Large chested women do not have the ability to walk around with a loose or no bra - it hurts, it reduces the elastin in your skin, is is embarrassing too.
Luckily they left before anyone else came. I just sat there and pretended to listen...geez, some people. Even if you don't want to help a cause, it does not give you the right to trash it.
Just needed to vent. Hope I haven't upset anyone who has had breast cancer - or any cancer for that matter - touch their lives in any way.
Luckily they left before anyone else came. I just sat there and pretended to listen...geez, some people. Even if you don't want to help a cause, it does not give you the right to trash it.
Just needed to vent. Hope I haven't upset anyone who has had breast cancer - or any cancer for that matter - touch their lives in any way.