Cancer is Not a Color

As we approach the season of being assaulted by the color pink, I would like to state the following truth: CANCER IS NOT A COLOR.

Do I sound bitchy? Perhaps I am. When I am being told that buying pink toilet paper will help raise awareness of Breast Cancer, I am thinking, "This will probably raise awareness somewhere else in my body, south of my breasts!"

When I cannot buy a can of soup without being told in obnoxious pink letters that almost half of my purchase will go to support the Susan Komen Foundation, which in turn helps the Susan Komen Foundation sue small charities for their use of the language, "For the Cure" or their use of the color pink, which they think they can trademark. With my purchase of this soup I will also be helping to pay the six-figure salaries of the management of the Komen Foundation...an awareness that they don't want you to be "aware" of. I wonder why? Isn't all about "Awareness?"

Perhaps I am bitter as all this pink hysteria eats into my current cancer's "Awareness Month." I bet you don't even know what it is! Of course you don't. An old ad campaign for my current cancer consisted of female celebrities with tape across their mouths with the statement, "No one talks about Ovarian Cancer." Guess what? People still aren't talking about it. Perhaps breasts are more acceptable than ovaries in everyday conversation.