Pinktober Revolution
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Wonderful Linda!!!!!
Garden this would be right up Katie Couric's meat & potatoes kind of piece!
I don't watch him often but what about Dr. Oz. Just a suggestion. Maybe the View???? I don't watch much TV so I'm not sure who is on much anymore.
Shells thanks a bunch!
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Top ten reasons I hate (pink wash-pinktober-breast cancer................fill in the blank)
10. It makes women look stupid.
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?Another reason for men to Ogle our Boobs or does that go under #10.....edit to add anyone can submit & or expand on this!
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For the pink shirt I was given... I don't even look good in pink... so I let my 3 year -old use it for dress-up.
However, the only friend that actually "pinks" me in email forwards is living with MS. So from my point of view, if it makes her feel more connected, she gets a free ride. (I don't send them on, but from her they don't make me mad.)0 -
The only pink I received was a dozen roses (actually mauve) from a niece. The family was told no pink. I only told family and closest friends, so am not dealing with most of the questions others receive.
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Vegggie, Thanks I needed a laugh tonight it was so clever it was funny!
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linda - god lord ----- you have made a case----but i'm the orignator of the two words--------oh shit what if they ask me stuff LOL We can go back to the night. Someone was unhappy and I said we need a revoultion . All happened after that isn't just fun to create something and then others say hey hell yes
story .. paramedic students that woud say I would do this ect, my response was "do it" early 80's
rest is hx,
The arm things that so many athlets wear, I tried to patent for a different reason. But saw many different applications for use. My Patent Attorney was very excited that it had be patented 14 monthe before. It took me along time to understand that. From his point of view it was Now, My point of view ---to late . All is relative to point of view
will edit when rested
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Top ten reasons I hate (pink wash-pinktober-breast cancer................fill in the blank)
10. It makes women look stupid.
9. It makes money for the wrong people!!
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Top ten reasons I hate (pink wash-pinktober-breast cancer................fill in the blank)
10. It makes women look stupid.
9. It makes money for the wrong people!!
8. It makes people think a lot of money is going into research for a cure, when it's not.
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Thank you to SandPiper or whoever thought of this list. Brilliant idea - lets do it!
Top 10 reasons to hate Pink Ribbons and the Pinkwashing of Breast Cancer
10. Because Pink Ribbon Care Bears are stupid
9. Because a Pink-ribbon Hello Kitty Microwave oven at Target does NOTHING to cure breast cancer and microwave food isn't on my anti-cancer diet
8. Because Komen Foundation and their slick marketing of our disease has LOST the race for the cure.
7. Because those of us who have cancer are WELL AWARE we have it. We don't need your awareness. We need better treatments, better science, and better technology.
6. Because Mastectomy is breast amputation and it is still the main treatment for breast cancer.
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Heh ........what barb garden & nat wrote. My sentiments exactly.
5. Because its easier for people to hide behind the pink curtain, than face the actual people & their struggles with this disease.
4. I'd rather someone keep me close to their heart, not their lapels.0 -
NatKat, There isn't really a pink ribbon Hello Kitty microwave at Target is there? Is it with the toys or the kitchen appliances? I'm hoping you just dreamed up such a horrid thing.
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No, the pink microwave is for real - but it is not for BC awareness.
But you'll enjoy this: It is the Walther P-22 "Hope Edition"
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And things like that are exactly why I don't have a permit to carry.
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SICK! I saw an eyelash curler! "Curl your lashes in hopes of CURE!!!" Pa-leazzzzz!
My words not the slogan!
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Julz, I wonder if that was marketed for the gals who've lost their lashes with chemo!!! Who makes up this shit??? Do they THINK about what WE feel like seeing it all???? How people think it's all for US?????
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Yeah....I saw napkins in Wal-Mart the other day on an end display in the "HARDWARE" section?????? Whats with that? As if we could all just wipe the beast from our hands, minds, & body's! Who wants a napkin to be a constant reminder every time we eat? Let alone WHO would go looking in the HARDWARE section for it! "Oh yes men lets have dainty luncheon in honor of our scarred wifes & girfriends"! RIGHT.....Komen get a CLUE....oh thats right they are thinking of the CHA CHING!!!!
As if we want to spend every waking moment surrounded by pink....awareness....Toasters & Mixers & Napkins OH MY! From the top of my head to the tips of my eye lashes....now wipe away wipe away all my pink pastry crumbs! Next the tidy bowl man is gonna go PINK!!!
We don't have to be surrounded by it.....we already are....our bodies do enough reminding already!
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This had to be the one of the worse ones...
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I hate pink
i hate bc
i hate focktober
i hate all the advertisements that are all bullshit
I hate komen
what I dont hate is what you girls.friends/sistas wanna do.
BTW Barb----you look great with light color hair!!!!!!!!
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Digressing a bit from the top 10 list here....but THAT could be a T-shirt design! (Shells - We should get together and talk!)
Since my surgery coincides with the beginning of the commercialized month we all love, I decided to plan a t-shirt line to help redirect stupid. Any quote suggestions are welcome! I'm already shopping on-line T-shirt design shops!
Some initial slogans I'm liking are:
"As a matter of fact, these ARE mine, bought and paid for. My old ones were trying to KILL me"
"F#$% Awareness, FIND A CURE!"
"If you need to ask, DON'T"
Various colors planned for. No pink.
Suggestions welcome, all!
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Audrey, Everyone recognizes Komen pink. The F#$% Awareness slogan might just be effective on a really revolting shade of pink.
Maybe a map of the US, all in pink with
We're Aware
Now Fund Research
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Chabba.....dayglo Pink? Or Black with neon pink letters?
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black with either day-glo or neon. A shirt in that bright a color might be a bit much---of course it could make some of us who have been on hormonal treatment for a couple of years look like walking corpses!
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SAS, did not mean to imply I had the Pinktober Revolution idea - just the verbose prose. I absolutely acknowledge you as the "Pinktober Revolutionary" that you are! Thank goodness!
SpecialK, glad to see you here, and love the weaponry. I have been considering getting my carry permit just for fun - one of those life things I haven't done yet. But I have my eye on something that runs a little more to basic black.... LOL .... Maybe Mini1 will join me!
Veggy, that wine is just SO VERY WRONG!!!!
Best wishes to all the rest of you Revolutinaries tonight!0 -
Just a random thought but through my experience as non Bc & now having applied to bc university........everyone clumps this disease into one mold or cookie cutter. Never realizing there are an array of cancers that fall under this one grouping people place us . with as many varied treatments. Cant tell you how many asked me when I was starting chemo......randomness........must be the forbidden veal chop I had for dinner.
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These products are just wrong on so many levels. I mean if you like pink than go for it, but really, napkins, wine, blenders. Like we are aren't aware of this stupid disease. I mean really, we all know or knew at least one person with BC before our diagnosis'. I still say pink ribbons have gone the way of car alarms - a good idea at the onset, but now so common place that know one pays them any attention and when they do it's in annoyance not concern. All pink ribbons are doing now is making people complacent instead of pissed off as they should be.
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Got so angry on the inside. Pinktober starting at work. I get so angry about this awerness crap. Why the hell didnt someone make me aware of breast density, aware of how important self exam was, aware of how lacking my yearly mammos where
Just posted shells reply to my fb.0 -
Exactly. Desensitized public
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ok one morething before i stop for night, working that is. I was gifted the pink pen, the fight like a girl pen. There are four changes when you click it
Fight with love and courage
with the power of love and hope
faith and sisterhood we unite
to encourage and live fully.
I know it is so sentimental, but I HATE THIS PEN, it makes me want to puke.
under the pocket clip there is the greetingpen.com and a U.S patent #
It's going in the garbage tonight, even though my daughter thought that from all the pens in the box that she could choose from, I would like this one best because of all my friends in bco. But it only reminds me of FOCTOBER and pink commercialism instead of cures and reasonable treatments.
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SimplyAudrey~I would LOVE one of your t-shirt suggestions to wear on days my arm is wrapped (for lymphedema). "If you need to ask~DON'T" Perfect!!
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