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 :)

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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

http://pinktobersucks.com/


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  • mostlymom
    mostlymom Member Posts: 378

    Photobucket

  • gmafoley
    gmafoley Member Posts: 5,978

    "Get over it" you say...Spend a week in my treatments and tell me how...

  • Linda-n3
    Linda-n3 Member Posts: 1,713

    "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!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 7,605

    FOCTOBER!!! Find a CURE!!

  • ro-berta
    ro-berta Member Posts: 21

    OH Barbe, I love that one!!!!!

  • PatMom
    PatMom Member Posts: 322

    Wearing pink never CURED anyone


    We're aware, now let's find a CURE

  • veggy
    veggy Member Posts: 4,150

    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.)

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894

    MY pain doesn't exist?

    Let me give you an example.

    Where would like it?

    Searing , cutting or burning?

  • Mini1
    Mini1 Member Posts: 1,309

    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!

  • Kate33
    Kate33 Member Posts: 1,936

    Veggy- LOVE yours!

    How about-

    F*** Awareness-

    Find a Cure!

    or

    PINK STINKS!

    Breast Cancer is a disease, not a marketing opportunity. 

  • Stormynyte
    Stormynyte Member Posts: 179

    Find a cure, I'm tired of walking.

    There is nothing pink about 40,000 deaths yearly.

    We are aware, find a cure!

  • Mini1
    Mini1 Member Posts: 1,309

    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?

  • julz4
    julz4 Member Posts: 1,373

    Good job All of You!!!!! Totally Loving it!!! The sayings ONLY of course!

  • janhart
    janhart Member Posts: 292

    Kate, you got it right....."breast cancer is a disease, not a marketing opportunity."



    Love it!

  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 5,858

    I think Barb says it best....altho there are lots of good ones..

    FUCKTOBER....Find a damn cure/vacine.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894

    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"......

  • PatMom
    PatMom Member Posts: 322

    There is no "good kind" of cancer

  • msjag
    msjag Member Posts: 64

    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!!!!

  • veggy
    veggy Member Posts: 4,150

    I like msjag's idea.

  • blessings2011
    blessings2011 Member Posts: 1,801

    Not a slogan, but I long for the day when we can PREVENT cancer, not just cure it.

  • Mini1
    Mini1 Member Posts: 1,309

    We'd have that now if 99% of men were getting cancer and 1% of women. 

  • julz4
    julz4 Member Posts: 1,373

    "Cancer Kills.....what's good about that!"

  • Kate33
    Kate33 Member Posts: 1,936

    "Stop Pinkwashing, Start Researching"

    "Race for the Cure?  It's not racing if you're standing still!"

  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 3,600

    Symbol - "The Ribbon" in the ugliest shade of camoflage green imaginable

    below - Breast Cancer isn't pretty

  • Kate33
    Kate33 Member Posts: 1,936

    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.

  • janhart
    janhart Member Posts: 292

    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."



    Enjoying this thread!

  • kyliet
    kyliet Member Posts: 587

    " I hate the 'new' normal"

    Chemo is NOT easy 'these days' 

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894

    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

  • voraciousreader
    voraciousreader Member Posts: 3,696

    Breast Cancer Survivor Does NOT Define Me. I am a LIFETIME warrior.

  • 1Athena1
    1Athena1 Member Posts: 672

    START TO THINK 

    BOYCOTT PINK