I need some feedback on our breast cancer tour RV

Socrateur":ydayphek said:
I applaud your efforts. However, keep in mind as you drive across the country that you will generate negative reactions to that billboard design. There are plenty of women's activist groups looking for fodder to justify their own "sexualizing women is bad" campaigns. Just be aware of this.

Breast cancer is extremely well-funded already. US taxpayers fund over $1B each year to breast cancer research. Hundreds of millions more is generated by activities such as yours. Today breast cancer is 98% survivable when detected early and it is a type of cancer that is easy to catch and treat early due to the external nature of the breast. There are other more deadly types of cancer such as prostate cancer that are under funded and need the type of attention that breast cancer has garnered over the past 30 years.
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You do have a point but the survival rate you quote is a bit high as many don't meet the early detection criterion. In practice, the survival rate (overall) is in the low to mid 80's and generally those are 5 year survival rates not 10, 15 etc. Nonetheless, you're right that there are other worthy diseases that don't get the level of attention they deserve.
As for prostate cancer, a picture of a guy holding a sign in front of his bare bottom will not generate a response that is near as favorable. :wink: As it turns out almost all men over 80 have prostate cancer (often undiagnosed) and usually die of something else. Prostate cancer survival rates are also quite high.

As for the original topic of this thread, I like the graphic and also appreciate the work Kevin is doing. However, I'm not offended by much so I might not be the best judge.
 
That would certainly make me look twice. I think it meets both of your criteria. Looks great!

Love what you did with Catch 22. Right On!!! :thup

Chris Bulovsky
Washburn Wi
 
good morning,
i hope this post finds you fit and trim, healthy and wise.
who was it that said, "great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds"? well, it wasn't tiger woods!
now, i've been following this tread with great interest. when the NFL recently allowed players to wear pink cleats, they did so to draw attention from the NFL to the breast cancer issue. it would appear that your display does the exact opposite, in that, it is the beast cancer issue that brings attention to your comedy tour. don't misunderstand what i'm saying. your original post has nothing to do with boating and/or c-dory's, however i appreciate that you have made this tread and would encourage you to continue talking about other non-boating related subjects, that's what makes this site interesting, all c-dory all the time is boring. when c-brats get together we talk about boats, waterways, repairs and modifications, we also talk about children, housing, health and money issues and yes, even jokes, why not here as well?
if i'm being honest, women having a lumpectomy, mastectomy, radiation, chemotherapy, reconstruction surgery, hair loss and on and on, would find
little in common with the scantily clad model displayed on your vehicle. now, how could you still display this girl and at the same time not offend your audience, perhaps by adding verbiage such as, "this is not what it's about? help us help, help them, eradicate breast cancer! or something to that effect. that message saves your integrity, while the model draws attention to your vehicle and thus your comedy tour.
best regards
pat
 
Thanks to everyone who offered honest feedback to this post. I really wanted to see what people thought about it, so I did my best to keep out of the conversation so as not to sway it at all. I am just about ready to paint the RV, once it is done I can apply graphics (which will be something similar to what was seen here) but based on peoples input both here, and through my personal e-mail may change a bit, not a lot though. I am really excited about the tour. This is a dream come true for myself and the other comics involved (it is any comic's dream to get to travel the country and tell jokes), and we figured that if we were gonna make our dream come true, we may as well help some people out along the way. There is no doubt that being affiliated with the Susan G. Komen foundation will attract attention to our tour, but at the same time we will be helping them too. We could just as easily go on tour and keep all the money ourselves, but it feels good to give something back. When I first started working with the SGK this last spring my mom was very excited about it (she is my biggest fan) so she went and got a mammogram. This turned out to be a good thing because they found cancer and have since been treating it. She is half way through Chemotherapy and doing pretty well. It is really neat to me to know that the first person our tour actually convinced to get a mammogram was my mom, and it may have saved her life. It has been made very clear to me that we have a real opportunity to actually help people just by doing what we want to do, and for that I feel incredibly lucky. Again, thanks for all the feedback, it is important to myself and the other comics that we are on the right path towards our goal.
 
Kevin: Hope to see you when you are in the Nashville area. Great news about your Mom. Just a couple of thoughts...

I do not see a boat hitch on the back of the van for your CD22.

and... it is simply crazy just how many C-Brats or our families have been effected/affected (sorry...english teacher not around today)... by breast cancer.

If you want to piggy back a bit, put some picks of real breast cancer survivors on there... maybe in a big ol square with many smaller photos as to keep folks focused on your van at the stop lights and in slower traffic. Just from the gatherings, many, many of us have C-Brat survivors.

Byrdman
 
i wish i could bring the boat, but we will have no time, and the hitch will have bikes to move around cities easier at times (none of us have rv experience) so we will be learning. We are toying with having the idea of having something like a wall of pictures on there. Im thinking have the spare tire on back be covered with panels that we can have survivors sign and when it gets full, swap it out for a new one, then at the end send them all to Komen. I like the mural idea too, all ideas are welcome.
 
If you are not towing a small car behind the RV--do seriously consider it. Often you will not be able to get the RV parking at the club, or even near. (unless you have a driver like the big groups have). Any manual transmission will work, or most of the small Hondas can be towed with no modification.
 
So I am very nearly finished with the exterior of the RV. I gave it a new two tone paint job and dolled it up with all the graphics. Since the folks here helped decide what they should be, I thought you may want to see the end result. I posted the pictures to my photo album entitled OTHER COOL STUFF (again I failed at posting them right to this message). Thanks to all for your input, keep your eyes peeled for it on the road. I leave in 5 days to begin our 15,000 mile journey...
 
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