Think Pinker

In Santa Clara, California there is a local middle school that has a breast cancer awareness bracelet circulating that is causing some heads to turn in what many feel is the wrong direction. While the message is a good one, the way it is said may not be appropriate for the young teenagers at the school.

The bracelets say, ‘I love boobies,’ and then go on to say ‘Keep a breast.’ While the bracelets have become somewhat of a collectors item for the students around the school, many faculty members are not pleased. So much attention has been garnered that the students were forced to stop wearing the bracelets all together.

According to school faculty, both girls and boys were wearing the bracelets and even trading them back and forth. While it was indeed raising much breast cancer awareness was it really raising the right kind? It’s sort of like when you got away with chewing gum in class when you were younger. You may not have even wanted that piece of gum, but you knew you were getting way with something and that felt good. The same may be true of the students and their new collectables.

In fact, many of the boys began to take the message too literally and started to harass some of the female students. This has prompted officials to ban all wearing of the bracelets on school grounds. While ThinkPinker.com is all for breast cancer awareness, we also feel that it should be done in a tasteful and respectful way. However, when it comes to teens and kids of all ages, breast cancer awareness has to start with the parents and then go from there.

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