October's Daily Encounters with "pink stuff"

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  • YamahaMama
    YamahaMama Member Posts: 221
    edited October 2011

    Lago, lol at the Pink Ribbon beer!!!! 

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  • lbrewer
    lbrewer Member Posts: 766
    edited October 2011

    I too hate the giant PINK PARTY.  Advertisers reap millions by placing pink ribbons on their stuff.  SOme don't even donate money...they just support breast cancer research.  WHO DOESN"T!  

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  • lbrewer
    lbrewer Member Posts: 766
    edited October 2011

    interesting site

    http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org/?page_id=13

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  • Lifeafter
    Lifeafter Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2011

    I too am tired of all this 'pink'!  The other day, my daughter and I were in a small town looking at a college.  I parked downtown so we could have lunch and parks right in front of this cowboy outfitting store.  Everything in their window was PINK!  It was like the Rhinestone Cowboy but pink!  My daughter saw it and said...does that get annoying?  I said, yes it really does.  I don't mind supporting the cause, although I think I've 'donated' enough already...two boobs, chest muscle and tissue.  Tissue is pink isn't it?

    Anyway...when I was first diagnosed I went out shopping for odds and ends that day...funny how life goes on.  I needed a blow dryer...there's a Conair blowdryer for 15.99 AND it's pink!  Breast Cancer logos all over it.  I felt guilted into buying it!  It works like crap by the way.  I don't get guilted into buying it now.  It makes me mad that these companies are making a buttloads off of us!

    I hate the color pink but I will gladly wear anything that supports the cause for awareness if they are free or if my money is going directly to the cause.

    Great thread, the pics are hilarious...you can't help but laugh at all of this.

    Michelle :)

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  • KittyGirl2011
    KittyGirl2011 Member Posts: 537
    edited October 2011
    Holy cow am I sick of pink and all the sham promotions!  The Estee Lauder one really got to me.  It glamorized BC rather than show the truth!  All these pink ribbons should maybe be put on the real picture of BC.  Scars from surgeries, chemo ports, brachytherapy ports, women on an MRI table with their boobs hanging in the holes, needles being stuck in a nipple to place dyes before surgery, mastectomies before and after pics, and so on, you get the picture!  Why not show the real disease and how it affects women.  No more pink cutesy crap!  I for one will write to these retailers and tell them how off the mark they are with these kinds of ads.  We should ALL write and complain.  Look what it did for Netflix when everyone complained.  We can make a difference.  Kitty
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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited October 2011
    Lets do something before next pinktober.We have a yr.
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  • Lifeafter
    Lifeafter Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2011

    Excellent idea!  I have to rather raggedy pink scars on my chest they can put on their merchandising advertisements.

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited October 2011
    If it weren't for Estee Lauder I wouln't have been getting Herceptin treatments. linky  
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  • michelleo13
    michelleo13 Member Posts: 342
    edited October 2011

    Lago, your point is a good one. Some of these companies make excellent contributions thanks to their pink ribbon campaigns and donations. However, I still found their ad missed the mark and agree with KittyGirl that it glamourizes BC. I get that they're a cosmetics company but I think they could have got the message across differently without making it all look sexy.

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  • FireKracker
    FireKracker Member Posts: 8,046
    edited October 2011

    Yes Lago your point is a good one.....You are the only one so far that got anyting out of all this....if there are any other sistas why dont they come here and step up to the plate?????

    Im happy for you Lago.But again WHERE IS ALL THE $$$$$$$$$.And why dont we hear about all these Co.who do the right thing???????

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  • orangemat
    orangemat Member Posts: 645
    edited October 2011

    Yeah, that Estee Lauder ad certainly doesn't look like what MY breast cancer awareness experience was like.

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  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 1,022
    edited October 2011

    Ok, I think I have a new one. My husband ordered pizza last night and look what came.

    Now if we just had some pink beer!

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  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 1,022
    edited October 2011

    And this was in my email just now. Guess it's my lucky day. They do give $1 to the NBCF which provides free mammograms.

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  • Lifeafter
    Lifeafter Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2011

    Omg...that pizza box is just too much! lol

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited October 2011

    i have  a small obsession with the t shirt that someone posted..i forget who.. this is what my masectomy really looks like. my hubs and i agreed we're gonna get one.. its pretty gross, really, but looks JUST like mine does... pretty gross.. THATS' threaL picture of bc......IMO...... 3jays 

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  • orangemat
    orangemat Member Posts: 645
    edited October 2011

    3jays, was it this one? tshirt

    I had posted another one, don't even remember what the shirt looked like, but the link doesn't work anymore, odd.

    When I got home from the Avon Walk this weekend, my husband had gotten me this shirt: my shirt

    I have yet to find the right opportunity to wear it. Maybe to my next doctor's appointment...

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  • thepinkbirdie
    thepinkbirdie Member Posts: 212
    edited October 2011

    i wore this one last year... in pink

    mainImg 

    http://www.cafepress.com/thepinkbirdie.585529179 

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited October 2011

    I have a sweatshirt that says Breast Cancer Sucks.   Cannot post pix... Also from Cafepress

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  • mdg
    mdg Member Posts: 3,571
    edited October 2011

    Love the tshirts.  Maybe during the month of October we should wear shirts like these everyday....just a thought.  The one orangemat has will get some attention for sure!

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011

    OMG thats the first BC tshirt that I would actually consider wearing.LOL

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  • Lifeafter
    Lifeafter Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2011

    I love orangemat's shirt!!!!

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  • Lifeafter
    Lifeafter Member Posts: 690
    edited October 2011

    I don't know how many of you have Facebook pages but there are pink ribbon galores in many profile pics.  I'm really starting to recetn the pink ribbon.  Like it's supposed to represent our pretty pink scars.  I think I'm going to change my profile pic to one of my scars, there's your pink ribbon for you.

    I'm feeling so bitter this week.

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  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 1,022
    edited October 2011

    All of this got me thinking about snarky T-shirts, so I made some on Cafe Press. Wonder how people at Race for the Cure will react when I wear it! Can't decide which one.

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  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 1,022
    edited October 2011

    Sorry, I couldn't figure out how to make them smaller! Oy.

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  • Mimidi
    Mimidi Member Posts: 231
    edited October 2011

    I want to buy a copy of  the first one.

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  • mumito
    mumito Member Posts: 4,562
    edited October 2011

    The first one is perfect.B.C. is definetly not pink.

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  • Ang7
    Ang7 Member Posts: 1,261
    edited October 2011

    I want the first shirt also and I never would wear BC shirts...

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  • thepinkbirdie
    thepinkbirdie Member Posts: 212
    edited October 2011

    shelleyj43 - I like the first one with the skull and crossbones.

    I bought a couple of rhinestone skull and crossbone iron-ons from Wal-Mart that I applied to a couple of my own shirts... I placed them on my mastectomy side of the shirt.

    The second one is great too!  I think it would get people thinking and asking what Malignant Neoplasm is.  That should make them aware!

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  • shells43
    shells43 Member Posts: 1,022
    edited October 2011

    Ha Ha! The first symbol is two crossed scalpels to represent surgery, then chemo and radiation.

    Send me a pm and I'll order you one. I have to figure out how to sell them on CafePress. I could give the proceeds to BCO! Cool?

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  • GramE
    GramE Member Posts: 5,056
    edited October 2011

    If you are tired of pink stuff, tonight is a meteor shower from the dust of Haley's Comet, depending on what part of the world you are in:

    http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Conditions-Right-to-See-Orionid-Meteors-Tonight-132325533.html 

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