Do we ignore these issues while we all focus wholly on the problems in Haiti? No. There are an uncountable number of other causes that are all just as worthy of our attention as Haiti is. Would it be great if we were still pulling in $8 million rounds of relief funding? Of course! Is it realistic to expect the world to focus on this one issue forever? No. Unfortunately, yes, Haiti is still wracked with problems, and yes, donations have slowed to a trickle. She wrongly assumes because we're not still in a Twitter uproar about Haiti, we must have stopped caring.
Did we show our legislators we won't stand by and let them continue to deny basic human rights to some Americans, but not others, based on something so silly as their sexual disposition? Absolutely. Did it help to show other LGBTQ+ youth that they're not alone, that there is an entire community out there that supports them? Hell. Did it help to create a dialogue? Absolutely. Did it cause people to ask questions? Yes. Did displaying the Red Equal Sign on our Facebook, Google+, and Twitter profiles and pages directly cause the defeat of the DMA? Probably not. Pardes also takes a shot at the LGBTQ+ community, and their supporters, for proudly standing together in solidarity against a cause we all care so greatly for: Equality. If we can get one young man or a woman to perform a self exam that leads to early discovery of cancer, we can save a life a life saved is far more valuable than any amount of money you might be able to donate. Many men, woman, and teens are often too embarrassed to talk about these things with a doctor, and just don't understand how important it is to do so during your physical with your PCP. Most guys don't know testicular cancer is a young man's disease, and don't know they should, or how to, examine themselves.
The same is true for prostate and testicular cancer in men and teens. When I support Breast Cancer Awareness in October, I'm not disguising my narcissism as altruism, I'm spreading the word about a cancer that affects millions of women and their families and leaves children without their mother which is wholly treatable when caught early. What Pardes fails to realize is that awareness for a cause is just as powerful as raising money. People wearing a Livestrong bracelet were merely looking for a way to "obnoxiously flaunt a social cause that you have no real connection to.".User's changing their social media profile pictures to the Red Equal Sign in opposition of the Defense of Mariage Act had nothing to do with the outcome.
$8 million dollars in relief donations aren't enough, if we really cared about Haiti it's supposed to consume our lives until the problem completely goes away.She goes on to attempt to back up these claims by comparing this campaign to those launched for Haiti in 2010, Livestrong bracelets, the Red Equal Sign created by the Human Rights Campaign, and more. Pardes reports in her article that the Ice Bucket Challenge is little more than "narcissism masked as altruism" and that this is the "crux of millennial 'hashtag activism'." Recently Arielle Pardes of VICE posted this disparaging article about the Ice Bucket Challenge that has become a viral social media fundraising campaign for ALS over the last couple weeks with celebrities like Martha Stuart and tech moguls such as Mark Zuckerberg participating.
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