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Book By Its Cover Review: Blogging for Hope

Blogging for hope, in case you did not click on the link, is where celebrities and public figures share insights and personal stories of how cancer has affected their lives. Bloggers include Fran Drescher, Hillary Clinton, Deepak Chopra, Tom Green, and many others. As one friend says, "Finally, Fran Drescher has an outlet to tell her harrowing tale of voice cancer survival."

But how do I rate this grand gestures of caring? I will tell you. I have had just about enough bullshit "awareness" raising routines about cancer. Who is not aware of cancer at this point? Cancer is bad. Cancer kills. Watch your health. You might get cancer. We know this.

It is not enough to donate money to cancer research. It must be partnered with a rubber band bracelet, a concert, a fun-run t-shirt so you can exemplify the fact that not only did you help run enough miles/listen to enough songs/donate $1 to bring us that much closer to a cure, you are AWARE of it.

Then there is the concept of BLOGGING for hope. I am a crotchety old woman and already tend to roll my eyes at jogging for hope, biking for hope, singing for hope and praying for hope.

Blogging does not raise hope. Let us stop pretending that the act of blogging will help cure cancer or do much else of anything except entertain, perhaps occasionally inform (usually on the status of how the baby panda is doing.) Blogging is for those of us who want to be entertained at work without actually going to a TV and turning it on.

Meanwhle, blogging for hope seems somewhat unfair. What about all those poor people who do not have computers and fast connections? How are they going to get their hope raised? They probably still think that cancer is still just various malignant neoplasms characterized by the proliferation of anaplastic cells that tend to invade surrounding tissue and metastasize to new body sites. They will never know what Tom Green has to say on the matter.

Blogging for hope: two thumbs down.

Blogging about blogging for hope: okay, maybe the tiniest bit ironic.