Awareness huh?? How exactly??

The highlight over this weekend on Facebook was the girls changing their status to the colour of the bra they are wearing. Apparently this is being done to raise awareness for breast cancer. Call me stupid or a spoil sport, but can someone please explain to me how exactly is it raising awareness?

From what I’ve noticed, all it’s done is provoking the guys to picture the women in that particular bra and girls loving the attention. I wonder if anyone has actually been fed in with info regarding cancer and the seriousness about it. This feels as just one of those acts which are degrading women once again and making it all about the boobs using cancer as the excuse. Am I the only one who thinks this is quite demeaning?

Don’t get me wrong, I do support breast cancer awareness. In fact, I attend the “Pink walkathon”, I wear a pink badge during the month of October, I donate to cancer research organizations and pray for the lives taken away by this horrible condition and that those infected will be cured. Women across the world are being kept informed on how to prevent breast cancer from ruining your life if diagnosed at early stages.

The point I'm trying to make is that, awareness can be raised if done truthfully and through a proper process. I wouldn’t want all my colleagues, church friends, uncles/aunts, cousins and friends to know the colour of my bra! Probably next we’d need to update our status with the size too to raise awareness…let’s see how many of you decide to publish that (In fact, I know a couple of them seriously wouldn't mind for the attention)!

People may call me a loser or old fashioned becuase it's just "a colour" - but that's not how I see it. This is my blog & my opinion. And I feel it is very lame and brings down the status of women; making it all about the breasts. Just because it’s breast cancer – awareness need not be raised through focusing on your own breasts for the rest of the world to know what colour your wearing underneath. Use the countless other ways to raise awareness...

Anyone with me on this?