Two Recent Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns That Confuse Us

Over the past few years, a fair amount of controversy has surrounded Breast Cancer Awareness Month and many of its related campaigns — Susan G. Komen‘s PR troubles, the question of whether the disease suffers from “overawareness“, discussions about how fundraising dollars can best be used, and heated debate over the benefits and risks of screenings have landed related campaigns in a scrutinizing spotlight. While we aren’t going to delve into all of the debates here (because we’d never do the subject the justice this New York Times article does), we did want to share our two cents about a couple of campaigns we’ve come across this year that have either inspired “WTF moments” or at least made us wonder about their usefulness.