What Made You Cry Today?

easygoingfemme · 10-03-2017, 03:38 PM

I work for a feminist organization. Like, a kick ass feminist organization. So I was completely caught off guard when I walked in to the lobby today and saw them setting up their breast cancer awareness month display. It was a fucking bra-pong game with huge pink bras. Breast cancer awareness is not a frat boy drinking game mashed up with lingerie. It's a disease that attacks and tries to kill one in every eight women. I couldn't believe it. I addressed it quickly with our executive director and our two HR/PR people and they took it right down and felt horrible. But when my ED came in to apologize I just cried. As a breast cancer survivor myself, with a mother who is a survivor, and a grandmother who I lost to breast cancer... I brace myself for stuff like this in the month of October (breast cancer awareness month) but I never thought I'd face it at work.

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10-03-2017, 03:38 PM	#11
easygoingfemme Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Lil' Miss Sassy Pants Preferred Pronoun?: She/her Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: My place by the river Posts: 3,692 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 7,023 Thanked 14,975 Times in 3,318 Posts Rep Power: 21474852	I work for a feminist organization. Like, a kick ass feminist organization. So I was completely caught off guard when I walked in to the lobby today and saw them setting up their breast cancer awareness month display. It was a fucking bra-pong game with huge pink bras. Breast cancer awareness is not a frat boy drinking game mashed up with lingerie. It's a disease that attacks and tries to kill one in every eight women. I couldn't believe it. I addressed it quickly with our executive director and our two HR/PR people and they took it right down and felt horrible. But when my ED came in to apologize I just cried. As a breast cancer survivor myself, with a mother who is a survivor, and a grandmother who I lost to breast cancer... I brace myself for stuff like this in the month of October (breast cancer awareness month) but I never thought I'd face it at work.