Some Honolulu EMS personnel are under investigation following a breast cancer calendar fundraiser. The female paramedics may have stepped over the line in posing for the calendar in an effort to raise awareness and funds for the Susan B. Komen Race For The Cure Foundation.
The photos were taken last June, and include the paramedics striking poses using their EMS vehicles as props. According to a spokesperson for the Komen Foundation the photos proved to be a bit too risqué.
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Meh. I understand that it is not professional, and maybe the dept wouldn’t want patches or identifiers on the uniforms or rigs in the final photos.
What I don’t get is why super tight “Save the Ta Ta’s” tops are everywhere and Komen et al are cool with them but not this. People really like to play up “the sexy cancer.” in various ways. I guess every bit helps, how effective is sex appeal in curing cancer? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39546719/ns/health-cancer/t/how-effective-are-sexy-breast-cancer-awareness-stunts-anyway/
On the whole tho, I’m not sure why the US is so culturally up tight about sexual desire, especially with protective services personnel. We’re supposed to be “ordinary people doing extraordinary things.” Last I checked, ordinary people tend to be sexual beings. We’re fire medics, not priests.
So I guess in our current culture such a calendar just wasn’t meant to be. FireFighter Close Calls just published articles about 3 chiefs. Of one chief, Janet Wilmoth
writes, ‘He told me in the early ’70s, when I tried to volunteer for the fire department, told me to “go home and have babies.”‘. Certainly that’s unacceptable in our current culture. I can only hope that someday we’ll collectively rediscover that you can be professional and sexual at the same time. Of course, by then I’ll be far too old to be in a calendar
JP
Alot to thing about. I can understand why a FD needs to have a line that should not be crossed. When ever you draw that line people will debate where the line should be – 2 inches left, 4 inches right. We got into this a little on Facebook – but it seems harmless enough, why make a big deal about it. There are so many more important issues to address… but then again sometimes people are powerless to deal with the big issues so all they can focus on is the small stuff.
Help me out, Chief… when was it that we became so eager to be offended?
Hahaha – John, I ask myself that very question several times a day!!!!
Have you ever heard of cognative dissonance?