Is this a product using a topic as serious as cancer, and using shock value to sell a product?
Some excerpts (Italicized):
Bracelets saying "I [Heart] Boobies" are creating a stir in American schools, with arguments exploding about sexual harassment, cancer awareness and snickering adolescents.
The bracelets are the work of the Keep A Breast Foundation, a non-profit that aims to raise awareness about breast cancer.
Schools from Utah to California to Minnesota find the frank use of a slang term for breasts too spicy for the schoolyard, and have instituted all-out bans or requested individual students to remove the bands.
"By disallowing them, we are eliminating the temptation to have inappropriate and potentially sexually harassing conversations."
Keep A Breast defended its decision to include the word "boobies," saying that the bracelets are intended to provoke conversations on touchy subjects.
But, as one commenter noted on the Fox affiliate website, breast cancer is not the only cancer that ruins lives.
"I have several cancer survivors in my family, including breast cancer, colon and thyroid cancers," the commenter wrote. "I don't see too many folks wearing bracelets that say 'I love rectum' or 'I heart lymph'."
Still, for some teenagers, the bands may be nothing more than a chance to show off a forbidden word in a school setting.
It is interesting to see how no one seems to care about people with all of the other deadly forms of cancer. Should I care about you more based on the type of cancer you have?
(ORIGINAL LINK) '[Heart] Boobies' Bracelets Cause Stir in Schools
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