Comments on: Redefining Pink http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/redefining-pink.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 09:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Paul Renault http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/redefining-pink.html#comment-1552006 Paul Renault Tue, 09 Oct 2012 12:38:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185888#comment-1552006 1) I approached a local Pink Ribbon campaign table at a restaurant near here.  I asked them if they were raising money for prostate cancer, y'know, by a Blue Ribbon campaign...  I was met with confusion.  So I pointed out that breast cancer research, because of all the Pink Ribbon, is one of (if not THE) most well-funded cancer causes.  And so many other cancers are begging for money. 2) 'Advocate' is something you put in your burritos or make liqueur out of.  (If you speak other languages besides english...) 1) I approached a local Pink Ribbon campaign table at a restaurant near here.  I asked them if they were raising money for prostate cancer, y’know, by a Blue Ribbon campaign…  I was met with confusion.  So I pointed out that breast cancer research, because of all the Pink Ribbon, is one of (if not THE) most well-funded cancer causes.  And so many other cancers are begging for money.

2) ‘Advocate’ is something you put in your burritos or make liqueur out of.  (If you speak other languages besides english…)

]]> By: Chentzilla http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/redefining-pink.html#comment-1551966 Chentzilla Tue, 09 Oct 2012 09:06:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185888#comment-1551966 What's a "cancer advocate"? What’s a “cancer advocate”?

]]> By: chgoliz http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/redefining-pink.html#comment-1551737 chgoliz Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:12:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185888#comment-1551737 Oh, yeah!  I can see why you respect her work.  Enough with the damned pink parades .... concentrate on research, and widespread dissemination of the results so we can get people to the right treatments ASAP. I was at a store the other day and the clerk was trying to give me a hard time -- in front of other customers -- for not donating to the store's breast cancer research marketing campaign so that I could get some schlocky gift in pink to prove I cared.  I was in a grumpy mood anyway, so I finally told her that I had already donated a pound of flesh (literally) to the cause and that should be good enough for her.  She didn't seem even slightly embarrassed. Oh, yeah!  I can see why you respect her work.  Enough with the damned pink parades …. concentrate on research, and widespread dissemination of the results so we can get people to the right treatments ASAP.

I was at a store the other day and the clerk was trying to give me a hard time — in front of other customers — for not donating to the store’s breast cancer research marketing campaign so that I could get some schlocky gift in pink to prove I cared.  I was in a grumpy mood anyway, so I finally told her that I had already donated a pound of flesh (literally) to the cause and that should be good enough for her.  She didn’t seem even slightly embarrassed.

]]> By: Boundegar http://boingboing.net/2012/10/08/redefining-pink.html#comment-1551670 Boundegar Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=185888#comment-1551670 But the Komen Foundation is so very successful - how dare she criticize them? But the Komen Foundation is so very successful – how dare she criticize them?

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