Pop-Culture | Posted by Nellie B on 01/19/2010

Burn Your Bra Color Status Updates

I was wondering why, starting on about Thursday, my Facebook friends were posting words like “black,” “hot pink,” and “beige” as their statuses.  Then I got the mass message: “Cancer awareness: Write the color of your bra in your status.  Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY girls, no men …. It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of cancer awareness. 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.”

I started to sneak a peek under my own shirt, but then the radical feminist analysis of the message ran through my head.  Let’s break this message down.

1. Write just the color, nothing else.  Okay, I’m…

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