Brace yourself, September is slipping, inexorably, to Foctober

Blessings I borrowed your post on Mets and posted last night on FB. I will do your other one in a few days

All I can say is "Wow" about the pink house.  I think I just hate pink now because it trivializes the struggle we've been through with this disease and tries to put a happy face on it, since there's been no real progress for a 100% cure. 

Firekracker! -- I LOVE your post about knocking down the display-- I have a good friend that would do that & more --she would run out of the store with it !!  

In the UK, one of the biggest supermarkets is Asda( bought by Walmart a couple of years ago). Every year they sell lots of pink rubbish, with a poxy low percentage given to BC charities, under the delightful banner of " tickled pink"!!!!

Despite many years of complaints they have refused to change/rename their campaign. I boycott the shop and encourage others to do so too.

All the shops are painful in October...

"Tickled pink"?  You've got to be kidding.  Childish, cartoon-like, and insulting.  I'll tickle their pink.  It'll be black and blue.

Good grief do Costco really sell urns? The Pink Ribbon, is just about the tackiest, most tasteless thing I've ever seen. I wonder if anything from  the sale of one of those yucky things, goes to research?

Tickled Pink??? My a$$! How tragic a slogan, is that!

Morning ladies. Yes, " tickled pink " is vile and UK BC forum members have put pressure on them for years but they refuse to budge. Do Walmart have anything like that?

The Urn is disturbing and awful

It's almost here

Grrrrrrr

Thank you, juliecc, sbelizabeth, and tangandchris. Please feel free to use whatever I have posted.

As a retired counselor and educator, I feel it is my mission to educate the ignorant. After all, I WAS one of them before my BC dx. (And for the record, I did go back and apologize to all my family and friends who were dx'd before me, for any lack of sensitivity on my part. Until you've been there yourself it's difficult to know how to respond.)

I will continue to post Facebook messages throughout the month of October I hope they will be sort and to the point,so as not to lose the reader's interest.

I will make posts on MBC separate because they are so important for others to understand.

As for Pinkwashing, I've been posting about that for years - after one well-meaning friend, upon hearing I had BC, actually mailed me some cocktail napkins with pink high heels and pink ribbons. SERIOUSLY? That's how she showed her compassion? ARGHHH - I knew I had my work cut out for me.

The reference to Pinkwashing in this year's FB post was a reminder from last year's which was longer.

Ladies - with one in eight of us being dx'd with BC, we have a LOT of consumer power. There are a lot of ways we can protest - with our mouths, our letters and our wallets.

I always take the time to complain to the managers of stores with huge pinkwashed displays. I let them know that I and my friends with BC will not shop there unless the display is tasteful and productive. I want to know where the money goes, and who profits by it.

I let manufacturers know that I will no longer purchase their products as long as they are pinkwashed and do not reveal where the money goes. And I let them know there are a gazillion other women like me who will be boycotting their products until they gain some perspective and sensitivity towards breast cancer patients.

O.K. Off my soapbox!!!!

Hope everyone is having a great day, and enjoying these last few days of September!

P.S. Never be afraid to speak up!

A pink stun gun. Hmmm may be useful.

Wednesday is Oct first

That is the day I start wearing my Focktober shirt when ever I go anywhere

I don't post on FB any of this PINKWASHING any more

I got the word out...no one would dare post any pink shit on my wall,they no betta.

I still havnt seen the pink crap anywhere

Maybe this little town I live in finally got it but my eyes r wide open

I HATE PINK

Hi All, Please take a moment to complete our Breast Cancer Awareness Survey: 

The survey will be up all month, so pass along, and we'll provide all findings at the end of the month!! Take the survey now >>

In summary, we have already had 168 respondents to the survey. While most recognize find it important to discuss detection and “prevention”, the month of October appears to evoke primarily negative emotions: anxious, annoyed, angry, sad, frustrated, overwhelmed, excluded to name a few. Overall, respondents wish that there was more of a take home message and education around all the pink and survivorship: what is going on in the research, what could one actively do to prevent/reduce chances, sharing of more stories of MEN and women already experiencing breast cancer, more than one day acknowledging MBC, more clarity on where the money is going. Too much sexualization, silliness, impudent phrases and activities, and commercialization that do not seriously enough represent the seriousness of disease, feelings and experience. There is a concern that the pink and fundraising around it in October is going too much toward awareness, and not enough toward research and help in general for those who have already been diagnosed. There are many comments also discussing if “prevention” really exists, and resentment around that word. 

tangandchris, what an awkward position that puts you in especially the email from your department head. Are the walking groups raising money to donate to a BC charity? Or is the point to encourage exercise to prevent BC? (It didn't help me!) Ugh. I'm glad my workplace isn't doing anything like this. So far, anyway.

I want one of those shirts. I NEED one of those shirts! That says it perfectly. I wonder if the "cure" logo is enough for most people to realize what it's referring to though.

I was having a bit of a chuckle here reading the posts when I saw that Alloway's post of the 27th was deleted by the moderators. Why was that? It seems to me so childish to delete messages. Could the moderators just add a little note such as "this post is inappropriate" if they believe the post to be inappropriate instead of just deleting?