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Going Pink For October

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the in-all-seriousness dept.

Matthew Oliphant is inviting anyone and everyone to turn their Web sites pink during October, which is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. Nearly 150 sites have done so as of this writing. And by the way, guys can get breast cancer too.

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  1. Re:OMG Ponies!!! by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Informative

    Oh god, the nightmares had almost stopped.

    Unfortunately beyond the jokes, breast cancer is bad.
    Noone is immune, it knows no boundaries, rich and poor, famous or not it could hit.

    I saw this checkoutmybreasts site recently which apart from featuring nice graphics was very informative.
    (As most of us are blokes it won't affect us directly, but spare a thought for your partners and get them to check)

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  2. Re:Strangely unfamous cancer by Hahnsoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Apparently, it's light blue for Prostate Cancer, and Prostate Cancer awareness month is September (at least it was last year).
     
    Breast Cancer strikes fear in the heart of many women despite being one of the most treatable cancers. I'm sure TFA has his/her heart in the right place, even though I can't see how making pink websites would make a difference.

  3. Why the focus on breast cancer? by windowpain · · Score: 4, Informative

    I lost a dear friend to breast cancer in 1998 but I think it's screwy to focus so much on it. Look at this PDF table from the National Cancer Institute. It shows that estimated deaths from digestive system cancers (136,180) will be more than triple the number of deaths from breast cancer (41,430) this year. Both figures are for both male and female deaths. Even when you look at just female deaths, digestive system cancers will kill half again as many women as breast cancer will (60,970 vs. 40,970).

    Another example of misplaced public health priorities due to the publicity machine.

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  4. Re:I'm in what else can I do? by Speare · · Score: 4, Informative
    If you are somehow GIMP-challenged to the point of not understanding the eyedropper tool, here are a few I snagged from graphics on a breast cancer site:
    • #ff99cc
    • #eeaac3
    • #f594cb
    • #f197c0
    • #fbd9e1
    • #f50f95
    The first one is a "safe 216" color, which I threw in as a bonus for the really ancient websites and video cards stuck in 256-color modes.
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  5. Re:Color me confused by arth1 · · Score: 3, Informative
    You can go pink, but don't be surprised if someone thinks it's for National Coming Out Day.

    This comment makes more sense if you know that in much of the industrialised world, colours do not have the same symbolism as in the US:

    US: pink = breast cancer, rainbow = gay, red = liberals, blue = democrats
    Europe: pink = gay, rainbow = anti-racism, red = socialists, blue = conservatives

    I'm sure there's plenty of other examples too, but keep in mind that not everyone sees a pink (or other coloured) ribbon (or other symbols) the same way.

    Regards,
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