If the point is to raise awareness, I'd say these bracelets are doing just that. The idea is to get people to talk about breast cancer, advocate for and fund research, and to learn about prevention and early detection. I don't think you can honestly say the bracelet itself promotes anything but awareness. How people interpret it's message--well, clearly that is something quite different. Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with one of my kids wearing it. Maybe schools should use this as a "teaching moment" to add to the conversation rather than to stifle it. After all, statistically speaking everyone is touched by breast cancer one way or another. I say keep the conversation going.
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If the point is to raise awareness, I'd say these bracelets are doing just that. The idea is to get people to talk about breast cancer, advocate for and fund research, and to learn about prevention and early detection. I don't think you can honestly say the bracelet itself promotes anything but awareness. How people interpret it's message--well, clearly that is something quite different. Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with one of my kids wearing it. Maybe schools should use this as a "teaching moment" to add to the conversation rather than to stifle it. After all, statistically speaking everyone is touched by breast cancer one way or another. I say keep the conversation going.
October 19, 2010 - 1:28pmThis Comment
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