Shut up Carl & Lisa - it's WHITE

Recently there was a day on Facebook with a private message that went around asking ladies to change our status to just the color of our bra, apparently it's still floating. The purpose was noted as to raise awareness for breast cancer. Secondly, we were asked to "not tell the boys" and see how long it takes for them to catch on.

I didn't have a problem with playing along, I went ahead and changed my status. Light pink. Normally it'd be white, because I'm just that basic kinda gal. Plain, plain, plain, and comfy. Sorry, but I've been married for 18 years and I'm busy chasing Miss Fabulous and two giant poodle puppies, I don't have time for anything extraordinary in that department. It's all about fast & easy for me. My husband doesn't much care either; we both appreciate comfort.

Now I was shocked to see an article from a "journalist" noting that this Facebook activity had caused "outrage." Huh??? Journalist Carl further noted "Broadcasting the color of your bra to your friends and colleagues is not typical or even acceptable behavior for most women, yet that's precisely what thousands of female Facebook users were doing this week..." The color of my bra or my girlfriend's bra is not acceptable? Dude! Gimme a break, no one exposed anything or flashed anything. There's never going to be a problem with women or men on Facebook being playful. We're not all on Facebook to be professional and build our business; we just want to be able to quickly chat with our friends and have some fun.

I'm guessing Journalist Carl must be one of those guys who really doesn't like women breastfeeding in public. I didn't care to BE one of those women but God happened to give me a kid who tore blankets, etc. off me when I tried to do it "incognito." People seeing my bra, or the color of it, was the last thing I cared about. I simply just wasn't interested in sharing the site of my boob. For TWO years! I couldn't wean the kid and boy did I try because I was just plain uncomfortable when we went out somewhere!

Some chick named Lisa was quoted as saying "I'm vomitously sick of a serious illness like breast cancer being reduced to twee pink ribbons and strollathons." Lisa urged a boycott of the activity. Come on Lisa, gimme a damn break - the color of a bra makes you "vomitously sick?" Nobody reduced the seriousness of illness - least of all by posting a color! If that makes you "vomitously sick," you should just come right out and die when you hear about a man, women, or child suffering from any disease, right? So, Lisa, you really should be dead because I see an awful lot of suffering and I actually try to avoid news and videos about any such thing. I have to wonder about the last time Lisa pushed a stroller, if ever. I wonder if Lisa could push that stroller off road for 10 miles; I can. That's an accomplishment under any circumstance and I have the cadillac of strollers. Wanna come see the REAL world Lisa? Let me show you what a real mom does every day; I'm saying YOU can't cut it girlfriend!

Are we still, seriously, not allowed to talk about boobs or anything that contains boobs? I'm so sorry, but I've been married 18 years and had a child and breastfed said child. Anyone who has gone through just that, the mom OR the dad, is a little over the boob giggles. Maybe Journalist Carl didn't date enough and is still after his first feel up. Is that why this was a story?

Why do people have to complain about EVERYTHING??? Journalist Carl - was there seriously not any other issue in the whole world that you could write about? It really had to be about a day with colors in a Facebook status. I just don't get this. The guy didn't even attempt to educate people in any way. If he was so concerned that there was no education in this little post fun, why did HE never put any links about breast cancer in this article. It was no big deal, none of my friends expressed any outrage, and actually the "boys" played along with us. So here we are talking about breast cancer - doesn't that mean it was successful?

I was delighted tonight when another friend found an article on Fox News that was POSITIVE. There's even a cool quote: "Andrea Rader, a spokeswoman for the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, said the group was not behind the campaign but called it 'a terrific tool for raising awareness.'" It's not even a long article, just a simple mention - that's it! Can you imagine? Someone didn't make it a big deal. Will we be able to sleep at night?

For some of my friends, their status was posted in honor of friends who have breast cancer or have died from it. The negative journalism was another slap in the face for the people who participated to have a little fun for the sake of their friends. Doesn't sound to me like Carl or Lisa have had to go through first-hand watching a friend suffer from any disease. Good for them, but no need to attack others by becoming a drama queen and becoming vomitously sick in front of us due to your outrage from something you didn't participate in. Get over yourselves!

As for me, I've been told by my gyno to go get my baseline mammogram. That was a little over a year ago, I haven't gotten around to it yet. I think I'll do it this year, and I think that on the day I do it, I'll go ahead and post the color of my bra - just to tick people like Lisa and Carl off. If they say anything negative again, I'll start some real trouble and send a private message telling people to post the color of their vibrators or the one they want along with the favorite function.

In the meantime, white!