I hope you've been clicking on the links. The articles are really good and there is no point in me retyping something that has been said so well. Here is today's.
Put Down the Pink, and Pick Up Your Pen!
Stupid Pink:
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"Show off your support with this beautiful pink ribbon Brest cancer watch. This lovely watch features 34 clear round crystals that surround a 1 inch white face. The total carat weight is 1.50 carats. The pink silicone band measures 6 1/2 to 8 inches long. The face is encased in durable stainless steel and is water resistant."(Source: CLICK)
"The NFL claims that its pink philanthropy efforts "support the fight against breast cancer" by "promoting awareness" and providing funds to the American Cancer Society. But what they're mostly promoting is, uh, buying NFL gear, the profits from which are overwhelmingly pocketed by the NFL."
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Some pink is stupid just because it's pink overload. |
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Offensive and untrue. |
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If you love the color pink and just want pink cookware, I am not talking to you. |
"wearing pink is cute. Cancer is not cute. Too many friends and family members are all too aware of how awful cancer is and how bad it sucks...kidney, breast, liver, bone, blood, lung, skin, brain, ovarian, and others I do not mean to neglect have affected my family and friends so horrifically. I don't need October to be aware. I don't need NFL players to wear pink socks. In fact, they've ruined pink for me. My dad died of mesothelioma before he should have and he valued education over anything. Send your kids to school...promote math and science. Help them go to college. The only thing that is going to win the battle against cancer is an educated "next generation". Not a football game."
"At one point in our history women struggled to be recognized as thinking beings, not just body parts. We still do.Now we also have to struggle to be taken seriously as human beings in breast cancer awareness campaigns that allegedly care about women’s health."If you are a woman, do you enjoy being objectified for your body parts? If you have ever cared about any woman in your lifetime? Your mother, your sister? If she had cancer, would you enjoy seeing it trivialized this way? Please think about it.
"Not to rain on the snark parade, because there's plenty here I agree with, but: I sent an article on this topic to my mom...She's a breast cancer survivor herself, and lost her best friend to an extremely aggressive form of breast cancer when they were in their late 20s. I got one of the hardest phone calls I've ever received in my life, as she recounted with deadly calm how exactly no one even acknowledged the disease that killed her friend in the 1970s; how it was a whisper, a secret, a woman's problem that didn't get dealt with until far too late. She was horrified and irate that our generation would ever be flippant within the context of that conversation.
Pinkwashing is, of course, a thing, and a problematic thing that should be dealt with. But overall, awareness is a good thing I don't want to be a part of a backlash against that movement."
"I only rated it mid range because I haven't used it yet. I bought it because its good to have it to use in case its needed, also I bought it because I wanted it for protection without having to use lethal methods and to support breast cancer research. I'm sure it will be fine when I do test it, everything I have purchased that supports breast cancer research has been a good product."
I spent the past few days reading through this blog, from start to finish. Wow! I've forgotten so much. I'm so glad I kept this jour...