Pinktober Revolution
We support the efforts to bring awareness to breast cancer during the month of October, but we are frustrated by Pinking and Pinkwashing. Please, join us as we seek to improve knowledge re: breast cancer.
Vision Statement:To bring full awareness of the reality of breast cancer to the general public; the surgeries, the treatments and the horror that there is NO cure. To ensure that proceeds donated to the cause are publically noted and distributed in an appropriate manner for the community in which the funds were raised. To keep corporations accountable for the use of pink products and the medical field driven to move the cure closer to the finish line.
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This is just a sampling of the bonehead comments we hear all the time. Thanks Scuttlers for finding this
scuttlers wrote: I may make a copy, put on the fridge, and play bingo for one week. If I get a "Bingo", hubby takes me to dinner. If I get a "full card", I get a full spa treatment. Then all those idiots would be wondering why I jump up and down and scream happily at their stupid and asinine remarks. :-). !!!!!
Breast Cancer Action webinar on Sexualization of breast cancer.
http://www.bcaction.org/resources/webinars/free-webinar-please-stop-staring-at-my-breasts-the-sexualization-of-breast-cancer/ Traveltext, 2015
Please ask Look Good Feel Better To Stop Giving Carcingoneic Products to Breast Cancer Patients through the Look Good Feel Better program JackBirdie, 2015.
American Cancer Society, Stop Giving Carcinogenic Cosmetics to Women With Cancer
Thurs. 29 October 2015 By Katy Skahill, Truthout | Op-Ed (BCO member Jackbirdie)
https://community.breastcancer.org/forum/102/topics/791442?page=89#post_4539402
Google hits sexualization Oct 2015 43,100
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"Get over it" you say...Spend a week in my treatments and tell me how...
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"Look at the bright side..... [insert any stupid comment made here] ...."
"Survivorship is much tougher than dying!" or "Survivorship sucks when everyone is happy that you are alive but no one cares about your daily struggles with pain and effects of treatment years after you should be 'fine'"
etc...... I have to get on the road to a class, but boy, is my brain churning on this one!
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FOCTOBER!!! Find a CURE!!
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OH Barbe, I love that one!!!!!
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Wearing pink never CURED anyone
We're aware, now let's find a CURE0 -
This might need an extra-extra large tee shirt...
B - bruised, black & blue, bills, biopsy
R - radiation, raw, relapse
E - emotionally exhausted, excision
A - awful, adverse effects, anemia, aspirate, assinine doctors
S - struggles, side effects, swollen. scars, scared, sleepless nights, surgery
T - taste alteration, tired, treatments, tumor
C - chemotherapy, chemicals
A- appointments, appointments, appointments
N - neoropathy, nausea, needles, nervous, new normal, neulasta, nadir
C - crying, cranky, carcinoma, complication, core needle biopsy
E -encapsulated, excision, extravasation
R - relapse, rough, recurrence
Doesn't look so pink anymore!
(sorry for any typo's.)
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MY pain doesn't exist?
Let me give you an example.
Where would like it?
Searing , cutting or burning?
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Barbe gets my vote. PatMom is a close second. No one gives a rat's a** what color bra you announce you wear on Facebook. Cancer sucks comes to mind, but that's a given. Also, I don't want to hear your story about someone you know that died from BC when they least expected it, but thanks anyway!
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Veggy- LOVE yours!
How about-
F*** Awareness-
Find a Cure!
or
PINK STINKS!
Breast Cancer is a disease, not a marketing opportunity.
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Find a cure, I'm tired of walking.
There is nothing pink about 40,000 deaths yearly.
We are aware, find a cure!
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I laike that Stormy - tired of walking.
How bout quit working on how to help men get it up and start working on getting cancer out?
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Good job All of You!!!!! Totally Loving it!!! The sayings ONLY of course!
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Kate, you got it right....."breast cancer is a disease, not a marketing opportunity."
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I think Barb says it best....altho there are lots of good ones..
FUCKTOBER....Find a damn cure/vacine.
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KNew there were going to be some great responses.
Someone, please, make a good phrase for the stupid statement that is
"you got the good kind of cancer"......
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There is no "good kind" of cancer
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Screw "Think Pink"... THink CURE!
The only "good kind" of cancer is in the minds of people who don't have it
I love this thread!!!!
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I like msjag's idea.
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Not a slogan, but I long for the day when we can PREVENT cancer, not just cure it.
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We'd have that now if 99% of men were getting cancer and 1% of women.
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"Cancer Kills.....what's good about that!"
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"Stop Pinkwashing, Start Researching"
"Race for the Cure? It's not racing if you're standing still!"
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Symbol - "The Ribbon" in the ugliest shade of camoflage green imaginable
below - Breast Cancer isn't pretty
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One of our members (wish I could remember who so I could give them credit) said-
The only thing pink about breast cancer is the scars it leaves behind.0 -
I had to laugh at "the good kind of cancer". When I got my diagnosis the doctor called me at home and said, "you do have cancer, but not the bad kind."
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" I hate the 'new' normal"
Chemo is NOT easy 'these days'
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Kate WOW. This one line could be a book. Hope you don't mind if I add to it.
The only thing that cancer leaves behind is the scars
To our bodies
To our souls
To our lives
To our relationships
To everything we hold precious
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Breast Cancer Survivor Does NOT Define Me. I am a LIFETIME warrior.
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START TO THINK
BOYCOTT PINK
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