Everybody knows that looking at someone’s facebook profile can tell us a lot of information, maybe too much, about their lives- relationship status, hair color, favorite movie, bra color? Women are now taking stand against breast cancer in a new and unique way by stating the color of the bra they are wearing on their facebook statuses. It is resulting in some controversy, but you know the old saying, there is no such thing as bad press.

According to the Washington Post, a message was sent to women all over the world advertising this event. The message read “Some fun is going on . . . just write the color of your bra in your status. Just the color, nothing else. It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of breast cancer awareness. It will be fun to see how long it takes before people wonder why all the girls have a color in their status Haha.”

As the cryptic single word statuses took over facebook, many people searched Google to find out the meaning. Anger was the strange reaction of many people. Groups such as “Awareness For Breast Cancer is not about the COLOR of your BRA!” and “I Kept My Bra Color To Myself – And I Still Support Breast Cancer!” have spread all over facebook and thos in opposition continue to reject this silly movement.

A silly movement is precisely what this is. Breast cancer is a serious disease that effects many women all across the world every single day. BUT-Anything that brings awareness to breast cancer is OK to me. It is a shame that so many people have turned a positive and fun movement, though “silly,” into a moral fight. A woman’s bra color may be a tiny bit personal, but they are not posting photographs! Come on, people!

“Many survivors were upset by the now infamous bra color postings of earlier this week. I was not, and I AM a survivor. It was stupid, but I did participate. Why? Because it got people talking about breast cancer. How did bra color relate to breast cancer? It didn’t, but it got us talking. So, in a way it worked,” said Marcia Hahnfeld Deitrick, a breast cancer survivor.

So why not put your bra color on your status? It isn’t causing anyone pain. It is only bringing awareness to a noble cause. So, with pride and hope, I say PINK!

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