...and for campaigns such as "Boobiethon 2006," which encourages female bloggers to post pictures of their breasts online because "if they're worth looking at, they're worth saving," a claim that is disturbing to say the least, as it implies the most tragic victims of breast cancer are a woman's breasts. [link, credit: Echo Online]

Editorial comment: Oh how I love it when the "media" latches onto ONE quote I've made on the site within the last five years. As if that's the one and only statement I've ever made of just exactly why we're here and why we do what we do every October. Then turns around and lumps us into the "pink profit machine"- like we see even a single penny of anything that's raised here. 100% of our funds go to Susan G. Komen (or our secondary charity). 100%. Say it again with me slowly. ONE. HUNDRED. PERCENT. The money never even changes hands through our site. We send you directly to the charity to donate. We only ask for receipt-confirmation as a "pledge" when adding you into our totals.

Our volunteers have worked countless hours for the last five Boobie-Thons, all donated. Our domain name is donated. Our bandwidth is donated. Our server space is donated. There is no overhead whatsoever. I don't bill anyone for the hundreds — yes, hundreds, of hours it takes to do this every year. From coding, to writing, to PR, to site updates, to donation updates, to looking at photo after photo until our eyes nearly bleed...

It's so convenient to sit there all smug and righteous (and virtually anonymous) behind your keyboard, criticizing everything and offering no "real" solution other than "give of yourself rather than of your wallet" — don't just shop, get educated, volunteer. You mean it's just THAT cookie-cutter easy? I think I'll put that on a t-shirt!

Do these reporters bother to ask for an interview from me before writing these articles? No. They don't want to hear what I have to say. It wouldn't fit their story angle. I might actually have...an intelligent thought they'd have to quote. They want to twist what's already been said - the little they actually, purposely BOTHER TO READ here - to fit their own agendas. To make us into exploiters and pornographers here to rip off your buck and make another blush and bashful blender and mixer collection with it...

Perhaps when Ms. Lemorie gets far enough into her collegiate curriculum at Eastern Michigan to take reading in addition to writing, she'll learn to take the entire premise behind a campaign, with such appropriate quotes as:

We know why we're here. Every year. Putting in countless, sleepless hours at the cost to our families and very oftentimes our sanity...if you've viewed even one single image in our survivors' galleries since 2002, you can hardly claim we view breasts as only worth saving because they're "sexy". They're worth saving because every single one of us on this planet, male or female, is born with a pair. We are all at risk.

And personally, I sign on every October because I'd rather save the breasts to start with than have to write another obituary on my blog ever again. [link]

Until then, I'm merely sending her to our amount raised page. You see, I raise more than just "awareness". I raise the MONEY to fund the CURE.