Underwear and Cancer
August 9 is National Underwear Day, and as the National Prostate Cancer Coalition keeps reminding me, my disease’s advocacy group is sponsoring this major marketing effort.
Notice they’re smart enough to use models for the public effort – if they threw a lot of us actual prostate cancer survivors into whitey tighties and marched us around town, I think that somehow the public sentiment would be for quarantine along the line of leper colonies, not more research or greater awareness.
Even though it’s been years since I’ve gone a day without thinking about prostate cancer, I’ll be wearing underwear most of tomorrow, and I’ll go ahead and claim a higher purpose in doing it. There may be pictures from our private celebration of the holiday here in San Diego, or maybe not, but until tomorrow, proof that Chuck sometimes wears underwear. If you need proof that Chuck has a prostate, go here.
I still like the idea of National Underwear Day carols.
Have you found an acapella arrangement of Whitey-Tighty Christmas yet?
I did wear underwear today, but so far have no photographs to prove that claim. If you want proof that others participated, check out the good posts from Jockohomo and
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