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You've probably seen a lot of cute items this month that raise awareness and funds for breast cancer. Now is the time for you to create your own (or, actually, help us create one). Lemondrop has teamed up with the lovelies at the T-shirt company Save the Ta-Tas to launch the Design a T for Your Ta-tas Contest. We want you to design a kick-butt breast cancer awareness shirt that embodies a positive message of hope and humor (and it helps if it looks great). The winning design will be made into a shirt by Save the Ta-Tas and its creator will receive a $500 gift package from STT.
To enter, please send your T-shirt design as an .eps file to editor@lemondrop.com by October 31. (Don't forget to read the full contest rules here.) In late October, we'll feature the best nominees on Lemondrop and let you vote for your favorite. The final decision will be made by Save the Ta-Tas' panel of judges.
We can't wait to see what you come up with. You don't have to be a great designer, you just have to make something that looks cool. Enter now!
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Monday 19 October
By Carol
I think your T shirt that says "Save the Ta Ta's" is insulting & diminishes the seriousness of Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer is a devastating disease that kills women & should not be taken with humor. It is demoralizing & insulting to use such phases for such a disease. I'm not a prude or feminist but feel strongly against making fun or light about Breast Cancer. If you insist on using that phrase, do so in any other situation you want but not when talking about Breast Cancer. I feel strongly about it & just had to address it!
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Tuesday 20 October
By dollface7996
I personally have been affected by breast cancer, and I think that a little humor is so helpful in something so serious. And if it catches someones attention about breast cancer who would have otherwise not given it a second look, then more power to it.
Wednesday 21 October
By Mitzi
Maybe you should buy you a tee shirt like that and wear it out. You will get allot of attention and most of it is from women fighting breast cancer. I have a brain tumor and I wear all kinds of tee shirts talking about it. My favorite one is MY tumor made me do it!
Thursday 22 October
By Jennifer Holton
I'm going to disagree with you and say that "tatas" is not offensive in the least bit! It's not like they are campaigning "Save the Titties" or "knock out knocker cancer." A little light is being shone on a serious issue and if that slogan helps more people get on board to help raise money and awareness then I think we should think of some more... how about "Help the Hooters?" anyways in all seriousness as someone who has "tatas" and has known people with cancer of all kinds... laughter IS the best medicine!
Friday 23 October
By Jo Anne Goldsmith
As a breast cancer survivor let me tell you if it had not been for my sense of humor and the ability to share my sense of humor with my friends and support group I seriously dout I would have made it through. Through the removal of both breasts, recondtruction surgery, 6 months of Chemo, and more reconstruction surgery my sense of humor kept me going, The ability to laugh at things we said that might sound insensitive to others was all said and taken in the spirit that it was given. Your state of mind is one of the most important parts of the whole process and will shorten your healing time if you can keep up your spirits or make you ill a lot longer than you shoud be and make you a person unbearaable for others to be around.
Friday 23 October
By Angelica P
I disagree as well. I am a 37 y/o single mother and I have been under going several biopsys both invasive and aspirated and I proudly wear my "Save the TATAS" t-shirt. In fact I just bought my 20 y/o and 15 y/o daughters one. If this slogan will catch the attention of one teen or young adult girl or for that matter any woman of any age then it has worked. Breast Cancer Awearness has to have some humor to catch the eye of our younger girls. We all know how serious this disease is so get the word out any way possible. So to women of all ages FEEL YOUR TATAS.... and be aware of your body.
Monday 26 October
By Laurie
Carol, I really can understand your (and some others') strong emotions and objections on this issue. To be honest, on any given day of my past life (pre-survivor), I might have agreed 100%. But now....... after not one, but two successful and toll taking fights of my own, I find there is NO disrespect in this effort to fight this disease. I believe that laughter does so much more for the spirit and soul which could never be tended to by even the most sophisticated of medical treatments. Let me tell you.... if your soul is brought down to its knees, it's hard to walk the walk needed to win. I would be willing to bet that more than not of the people (and no, although the majority of victims are female, not all are) who are enduring the battle against this beast known as breast cancer, would rather a joke and laughter than someone tending to them with sympathy and kit gloves.......
..... “Help Save Lives” and “Donate to Breast Cancer” have become phrases that are so common place people tend to gloss over it when they have heard it again, and again and again.... (And you can't say they don't)! Finding ANY way to open up NEW dialogue or catching the attention of someone who has become incensed to the issue is a GREAT idea, I don't care WHAT it is. It just so happens this is hysterical and TRUE. I don't see it as sexual OR offensive (my humble and highly shared opinion).
I would very kindly like to suggest you volunteer at any medical center in your area and spend some time with a few people who are in the fight with the big "C" or any life threatening and/or scary disease. I think you might be surprised to learn just how much a sense of humor helps and is more readily available than a “cry for me” attitude.... Then again, if you think “Save the Ta-Ta's” is offensive, this may not be a great idea for you after all. Why? You will hear a LOT of jokes and more offensive material than “Save The TaTa’s” and it will be straight from the mouths of the patients themselves. Not to mention if you walk in with a “you poor soul, let me comfort you” attitude, you may actually do more harm than good.
P.S. A sense of humor helps in everyday life as well. Life really is too short to take it all so seriously! Good Luck to you.
Tuesday 27 October
By Kimberly
My mom had cancer when I was ten, she did the chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and she would take me along. She had everything removed and the cancer was pretty much gone. When I was about 12 or 13 it came back, and she passed when I was thirteen, just before Christmas. I'm nineteen now, and there isn't a day that goes by that I don't think about her. I don't care how anyone goes about it, as long as research will be done, and more and more people are receiving the information they need to know, I'll be happy. Keep up the good work.
Tuesday 27 October
By Katie
Lighten up! I have own one of those tanks and my mom is a 12 year surivior of breast cancer. We run the 5K every year in her honor and she thought the tank was adorable, in fact at the race most people did. It's not insulting to anyone and does not take away anything from the disease itself. Get a grip lady and find something else to complain about.
Tuesday 27 October
By Debbie
I don't think that the phrase is humor "tatas" is spanish. Unless they've created a new type of humor, spanish is still a ligit language. I don't know much Spanish, but this phrase helps to cross cultural lines, just like breat cancer.
Wednesday 21 October
By Rebecca Craddock
I have to tell you as a nurse, "Save the Ta Tas" does not seem offensive to me. Some people have a problem with addressing body parts in their "correct medical term". This accomplishes the "task" without some having to say the "B" word! (lol).
A sense of humor is ALWAYS a good asset.
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Saturday 24 October
By Erin
Carol, I completely agree with you 100%. I'm tired off all the innappropriate slogans like "Save the ta-tas," "Feel your boobies," "Save second base," and "Save a life, grope your wife." They make me sick. I am a 24 year old with a husband and son. My husband agrees with me as well. His grandmother suffered from breast cancer for 20 years before she passed away. And for pepole to make light of it by using sexual or "funny" slogans makes us sick. The MAIN point behind breast cancer awareness should be to save LIVES not "boobies."
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Sunday 25 October
By outdoorgirl
I have just been told my results have come back as cancer. I am scared to death. I worry more about staying a live to see my grand kids get married. I can live without the boobs. Come up with a t-shirts that says ..Donate To Save A Life......... HELP FIND A CURE
Saturday 24 October
By Erin
I apologize for the typo. I meant *people.*
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Saturday 24 October
By B Wilson
I hate this shirt! It is saying that saving breasts is more important than the life they are attached to! Are people really that stupid?!?!?! My sister was 24yrs. old and had a husband and 3 small girls when she died from cancer. Slogans like this are just as ignorant as the people that choose to wear them!
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Sunday 25 October
By Derrel
from your post...
you sound bitter
Tuesday 27 April
By vickie hull
I have 2 of the Save the Ta Ta's t-shirts and several others, and I am certainly not ignorant. I am a breast cancer survivor, and wear them proudly to raise any awareness that I can to this awful disease. I understand that you had a relative that went through it, but until you have personally had your breast removed and stared at yourself in the mirror with nothing but scars across your chest, you should not judge anyone else. No, my breast were not the most important thing to save, my life was for my children. But I was also 38 years old when I was diagnosed and did not want to live the rest of my life with no breast. How dare you judge anyone that wears something that draws attention to this cause! The slogans are not meant to be sexual, they are meant to be humorous. When you are battling cancer you need all of the humor you can get!! I pray that you personally never have to deal with explaining to your children why Mommy has no boobies and praying that since they are girls, that a cure will be found before they have to deal with this.
Saturday 24 October
By Deb
Maybe a light hearted approach allows conversation to open up. For so long it was a disease that was not discussed openly in mixed company, yet it very much affects the men in society who love those who suffer with it. Breasts do not always have to be a sexual object, just another body part. If you have ever gone through the journey with someone who has had breast cancer you would know that humor is a great tool in recovery and coping. Lighten up.
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Saturday 24 October
By joyce colahan
Save your life, feel the ta ta's!! Now that makes more sense, it uses humor but also addresses the seriousness of breast cancer. I don't care about your Ta Ta's I care about your life. Men care about saving the Ta Ta's women are usually smarter and should command that respect.
Sunday 25 October
By PeggySue
It should be about saving LIVES - and not focused on referring them to an immature term for "men's playthings" - as in ta ta's. Here's a couple good ideas, since it was probably a man who came up with the save the ta ta's slogan:
FOR COLON CANCER - we can have T-shirts that say: SAVE THE ASSHOLES!
FOR TESTICULAR CANCER - 'BALL HANDLING IS A SKILL THAT CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!"
or "HAPPY SQUIRRELS HAVE HEALTHY NUTS!"
You get the picture. Not so funny when we take the seriousness out of a horrible disease for a man, now is it?
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