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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14How about a Red for Colon Cancer month? A Blue for Brain Cancer Month? A Yellow for Urinary tract cancer month? Purple for Oberian Cancer month? Plaid for lung cancer month?
How about a Pink for Cancer month. Why is breast cancer so special when it kills fewer people than colon cancer?
I agree its good for cancer awareness, but being aware of one kind of cancer is not good, breast cancer affects fewer people than many other types of cancers so shouldn't a month be dedicated to a larger killer such as colon cancer? Or how about, better yet, we just give cancer awareness in general and be aware of all kinds of cancers. - nebunezzar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I'm not too keen on pink, and think breast cancer already has a lot of awareness, but I for one love breasts and am more than willing to support them.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The real reason is because there were a lot of politically active women who wanted to put greater effort into breast cancer research. The reason we don't have any other is because nobody else really cares all that much.
Men WOULD do something for prostate cancer, but they'd rather just pretend it doesn't exist. - mc4_a, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I agree. 100% Breast Cancer has received plenty of play in the press. Time to move on to something else. My mom almost died of breast cancer, but come on already. Everyone knows.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8crap... i KNEW i should have used one of those Digg Front Page rules... i submitted a link to Pink For October over the weekend.. but i didn't turn it into a Top 10 list!
Gah! i'm such a failure! - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Alright, I'm tired of women getting all the attention. Yeah, they breast cancer, boo hoo, well guess what! Men are EVEN MORE likely to get prostate cancer than women are to get breast cancer, and it kills almost as many men per year as breast cancer kills women!
Why isn't there a 'yellow for november'? - bat-21, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"isn't all cancer the same?
Nope. Breast cancer, when detected early, has a cure rate of over 80%. If you get pancreatic cancer, you're screwed. - BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3While it's unfortunate that people get sick & die from it... Really, breast cancer is nowhere near the huge killer as some other cancers, and I'm gonna have to agree with the bunch of people before...
Why all the attention to a cancer which is easily detected (gropey-gropey once a month ladies), and is not terribly devastating as far as quality of life goes if it is detected early (you might lose a breast, but you need those a LOT less than say, a lung) - ethicalhacker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5So, where's the pink Digg page?
- Sazzle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I think Pink for October is a great idea and if there were other movements to raise awareness for worthy causes Id back those too.. and so would others.
So if you complainers are so adamant that other ailments should have their own reboots to raise awareness then why dont you stop wasting time posting comments about your dissatisfaction on Digg and start making a difference by organizing something yourself?
Actions speak louder than complaints. - biofusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Those are some really great designs there
- BinaryMoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Pink for October is a really good idea. A noble cause - and I'm in there as well :)
- VanillaBaron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2TO all those above complaining about pink in October: You are morons. How hard is it to understand, that other people assisting causes they support does not prevent you (or others) from assisting causes you (or they) support ?
@hildu - "why just breast cancer? why not prostate cancer? or just all cancer?
isn't all cancer the same?"
That is amazingly stupid. I mean, if you say we can never raise money for BC alone, we have to raise it for all cancers at the same time, then I can retort that we should never raise money for cancer alone, we have to raise it for all medical ailments at the same time. Ah, but why medical ailments alone? We must, according to your theory, only ever raise money for all social ills and charitable needs combined at the same time.
And the question, elnerdo, is not why there is no yellow in November month, the question is, why haven't you started a yellow in November campaign? It isn't like the pink in October people are preventing you from starting it, hey! - TwistTim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2As for all the whiners that want to do something about Prostate Cancer, well I bought a wrist braclete thingy for 3 dollars from a general health(aka pills for health concerns) store in a mall, it is a light blue colored thing. That is the color for that cancer if you want to do a "Prostate Cancer" page
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just so you know: "Breast cancer constitutes about 7.3% of all cancers."
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I'm gonna color my site brown for a certain 'other' type of cancer. Breasts are nice and all but this 'breast cancer awareness initiative' is turning into one big spam campaign. The next sweet lady that comes to my door for a breast cancer research donation is gonna get a punch in the nose.
Yes, I'm an *****, but I've donated to general purpose cancer research facilities (the real type of cancer research). - sphereskr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The reason it's PINK for October and "no other cancer is recognized" as some of you so eloquently put it is that the women and men (yes men are at risk too) that get Breast Cancer and their families are wiling to "get off of our asses" and fight for recognition, awareness, and a cure. If you are so concerned with the fact that other cancers and diseases don't get the same attention, do something about it.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i haven't been to slashdot since the last april fools.. if i remember right, it was pink
pink for october = good
pink to be annoying = bad - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@Sazzle
We aren't saying its a great cause, we are saying that it shouldn't be limited to one kind of cancer. And most of us don't have the time to spend to lobby a cause like this, while most women who do don't work, they are probably married to rich people and have nothing better to do but start lobbying organizations to push for this.
It just shows how self absorbed and selfish they are to be only caring about breast cancer which 95% only affects women even when prostate cancer is a larger killer of men and women both. And there isn't enough months in the year to have a month for each type of cancer, eventually it just gets too extreme thats why it should be one month for just "cancer" not any specific kind of cancer, just cancer in general. - affanjam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3O God!! Thinking of that reminds my of the Pink Slashdot one.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm as much in favor of curing cancer as the next person, but turning my whole site pink for a whole month is out of the question for any cause, period. Silly and pointless. I could see putting up a button or a banner, something logical.
Besides, my site (which I just re-did) already has baby shades of pink, blue, and yellow, with plenty of white. So I'm good for every cause-of-the-month. This sounds too much like "support our troops with this two dollar magnet on your SUV" thinking. - webkidd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I have converted my site http://www.ifindcds.com to pink for october.
Great job guys!
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