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Click here to visit the new home of Politics Daily!It's meme season again. Last year about this time, lots of women found this message in their Facebook mailboxes: "Help spread the wings of breast cancer awareness by putting the color of your bra as your status. Just the color, nothing else. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status." My colleague Frances Tobin was not amused. Neither was I. In "My Bra? Color Me Furious," I objected "not for myself, but for friends I've watched face this beast. Many of them aren't wearing bras of any color because their breasts are ...
The bra-color meme that's sweeping Facebook and allegedly raising awareness of breast cancer got a nice one-two punch from my colleague Frances Tobin. ...
(Jan. 8) – Broadcasting the color of your bra to your friends and colleagues is not typical or even acceptable behavior for most women, yet that's precisely what thousands of female Facebook users were doing this week, ostensibly to raise awareness of breast cancer. Logging on to the world's most popular social network beginning midweek, it was common to see status updates from women users that read a variety of colors, from black to white, pink, red, nude or, more cryptically, "none." What could the girls be up to this time? male users collectively wondered. That's because, as is often ...
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