Pink Ribbon Overload
Balls for Breasts! Except note how much more expensive the PINK tennis balls are compared to the yellow ones from the same company. Is this truly about “hope” and the “heart” of Wilson or just profit?
Yay! A Legit organization and details spelled out in fine print.
See a Pink Ribbon? Find the fine print!
Eggs For The Scam!
Look, we get it. Companies who sell these products donate money (we are told) to (hopefully responsible) organizations who fund research (on some level, we assume) and (we further assume) support women with cancer (the “how” in this varies). Surely none of the companies who plaster pink ribbons on their products do it merely to make them look good to consumers or to increase sales. Pffft, such a silly thought! But seriously? This saturation of Pepto-Bismal-Pink ribbons is out of hand and it leaves many breast cancer patients feeling like pawns in the monetization of their disease while glossing over their very real suffering. They don’t need pink ribbons on a mammogram gown to remind them how scary those test results might be. They don’t need pink banners welcoming them to their Chemo treatments. And they sure as hell don’t need pink ornaments on the Christmas tree in the Oncology facility emblazoned with, “Cancer 2012!” Let’s note this: “raising Awareness” and taking actual steps toward funding a research scientist or providing a free $800 wig for a bald woman or providing her transportation to chemo are not the same thing. Never will be. So please do the research. Know where your money is going before you write that check or ask others to write them for you. So yes, a perfectly good, once loved, innocent, girly color has been misused and abused and indeed, makes women with breast cancer, and their loved ones, Sick. Of. Pink.
In 2011, Susan G Komen only gave 15% to research = a cure. How’s that for illumination?
Organizations such as these are so desperately needed. Life doesn’t go back to normal after that last chemo or radiation treatment. Ever.
“Regardless of purchase” KEY phrase for a lot of companies profiting off of the pink ribbon and other diseases. Take note!
Define portion. Oh wait, doesn’t matter. You’re donating a flat amount no matter how much we buy. Riiiiight.
Ummmmmmm
With PEPPER SPRAY! (Who knew?)
Mace that cancer away!
Annnnd October is over. Bring out the CLEARANCE stickers. Because really, Target, why promote awareness the rest of the year?
Then click your heels three times….
Can we get a death decline to go with that price decline please?
Interesting concept. Then again they could just donate gift packs outright. Right?
Aw yes the violence oriented NFL getting in on the feel-good PR game at the expense of sick and dying women.
“Healthy Habits” I beg your pardon?
Here’s that standard worth-nothing line: “A portion of the proceeds will be donated to fight breast cancer.” How? Where? How much? When?
Now THIS is useful! And compassionate.
rah rah cancer!
Wait for it….
See a Pink Ribbon? Find the fine print!
Yay! A Legit organization and details spelled out in fine print.
Just…no.
Eggs For The Scam!
This company is A-okay.
I always look for the amount a company donates and to whom/for what they donate.
Fly the Pink skys!
At a local thrift store…
This makes us want to drink. A lot. But not with these cocktail napkins thank you very much.
Komen is evil. Repeat. Do the research.
Cancer is stinky.
Pink hearing aids. That’s right.
Wash away that cancer!
Crazy Shine–just buff that cancer away!
The sewing aisles are loaded with pink.
Wine!
LOVE how they spell out what they’re doing with your money. This is always good.
More crafty pinky pinky pinky.
Craft stores get into the action!
Again, always read the print on the package if you really want to raise “awareness”.
Eco isn’t the only thing that’s “in”…
Who benefits if I wear this shirt?
What cause are we supporting?
At first we thought this was a dog collar.
Really? How? Where? Who?
At a quilting shop in Illinois.
Sprayaway cancer!
Great cause/use of profits.
Great intent. Too bad they chose Komen.
ugh
They do note what percentage and where profits will go.
Oh hi here are those pink ribbon pins again!
Jo Ann’s fabric store.
Kinda saw some irony finding this on the clearance shelf.
Burn away that cancer!
How? Who? Where? How much?
For the hair you won’t have.
Aluminum Chlorohydrate is considered to be a carcinogen.
Unfortunately, those of you who don’t live in snowy areas don’t get to care as much!
Oh barf.
Prune it away!
Good info on the pruning shears package.
Again, Skil in bed with Komen. What a waste of their money.
Komen is in bed with too many top brands.
Cover yourself head to toe if you REALLY care.
1%. That’s right, ONE percent of their jacked up prices on pink products. Jerks.
I cost more because I’m pink.
And that’s why we charge MORE for our PINK products!
Wilson is totally using cancer victims and Pink marketing for their financial gain. Period.
More wine!
Gotta read more on their website.
This makes us laugh (Sport Beans?) but they donate appropriately.
This is good. (Package of Sport Beans)
“Each Charity”? Huh? And that $50,000 max is regardless of whether you buy this bottle. This is just marketing.
Already stupid expensive and now in bed with Komen.
Good good….
Plan your chemo and bazillions of doctors appointments here! (Because Chemo Brain is real and it’s a bitch.)
10%? Okay. Now where? To whom?
More Pinkwashing in the Garden Section
At Tuesday Morning.
But they don’t say they are donating anything….
Pantene does real work for women who don’t have hair any more.
How much, Addias? And where? How? When?
Must be past October with all those clearance stickers!
Search out cancer!
Found at Big Lots
No mention of cancer, research, donations, nada. Nothing. Just a, “Oh look we’re helping someone we care!” pink ribbon.
Assaulted as we entered the garden department at Lowes.
Because Duck Tape fixes everything, right? Even cancer!
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Agree!
My take-
http://theresathomas.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/purge-the-pink-what-you-can-do-that-will-actually-help-in-the-fight-against-cancer/
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Breast cancer isn’t glamorous
Breast cancer isn’t pink
It’s the colour of your vomit
When your head is in the sink
Breast cancer isn’t bracelets
With pretty little charms
It’s the black and blue of bruises
From the IVs in your arms
Breast cancer isn’t putting on
Your pink dress for a dance
It’s the brown of diarrhoea
When you shit your underpants
It’s the red within your dressings
It’s the yellow green of pus
How can you think that going pink
Is really helping us?
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Why why why do people think Breast Cancer is cute. It boggles the mind. I hate the Pink thing. It’s all about profit and nothing to do with cure. Most say they go to “research” but what they don’t tell you is it’s for treatment NOT for a cure. No offense here, but I hate calling it a journey. I think of a journey as something wonderful and new. Not suffering and being a lab rat. Having poison pumped into you and radiation that kills not only the cancer but all healthy tissue and surges through your blood and deposits itself in every part of the body. Awareness is there screw the awareness get the cure. For all cancer. Won’t happen to much profit in it.
Chemo is one of the highest money makers for cancer treatment centers and hospitals and big pharma. Treatment = Profit Cure= No profit. All comes down to the botrtom line. Not life.
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100% agree. A very good friend of mine was diagnosed with Stage 4 Hodgkins Lymphoma in August 2014. He went through 12 chemo treatments, almost died, and was declared in remission in April 2015. It was miracle after miracle! But he also started to have major issues with his lungs in April. On May 23, 2015 he passed away because the chemotherapy damaged his lungs so severely there was no coming back. It breaks my heart every day. He was only 27 and had a wife and three small children. It infuriates me that modern science can’t accept alternatives to poison.
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Ugh I couldn’t agree more! It’s awful. Not to mention half of those products have toxic components linked to cancer!!!!!
http://www.womensvoices.org/ They have a lot of information against what they like to call Pinkwashing. Check them out…you guys could make a great partnership!
Keep it up, lady! 😀
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I’m disgusted by the attention to breast cancer, as if it’s the only cancer worth supporting. It does make some of us, in my case Acute Myloid Leukemia, feel as if we don’t matter. Financially I didn’t receive any assistance, though I am divorced (no partner either), with a disabled child, another in university, a 20 yo car that was destroyed by doctor appts., tests, treatment, ad nauseum…and we live well below the poverty level. Hell, I didn’t even get a tee shirt (they were $17.99 in the gift shop, which I couldnt afford). Though I was given a nice wig and makeup from the cancer society…though food and gas copays would have gone much farther. My health isnt great since I still can’t afford healthy food. Too sick to apply for help and too late when remission is called…but pink ribbon related items are flying off the shelf. I guess I’m not woman enough and got the wrong cancer.
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Good grief! COMPLETELY understand your point of view and disgust with all the attention breast cancer gets. That’s one of the reasons we write about this. There’s a much larger, uglier world of cancer out there right alongside breast cancer–as you have shown. God love you and prayers for improved health and support! xo
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Hate every October seeing people in feathers and pink ribbon tattoos as if this illness is fun !! Minimizes the cost of the illness physically emotionally and psychically.
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