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Prostate Cancer Ken Marries Breast Cancer Barbie

Ken's medical benefits are about to max out so he's hookin up with his homegirl Breast Cancer Barbie.

(remember this Ken picture ... hee hee)

I left that picture big so you could see her in all her pink prissy glory.

"I'm not sure what in the world Mattel was thinking. What's with all the glamour? Is she supposed to be heading to a charity ball or something? Because clearly she doesn't look like someone who currently has breast cancer. If she did, she would look more like this:" Thanks Susan

From My Myspace:

My grandmother died of breast cancer when I was ten. I remember helping her get dressed, the ashen color of her skin, and the smell of her smoking dope for her nausea. She had suffered with it on and off for over 20 years. It was a horrible way to live and a horrible way to die.

I was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in October 2005 and had a stem cell transplant in February 2006. I'm now currently in remission and I feel pretty lucky to be here.

So how many of you actually know what leukemia is? (it's cancer of your blood) Would you know the symptoms offhand? Did you know that September was Leukemia & Lymphoma Awareness Month? Well on October 6th, I got a signed, sealed proclamation from Governor Good Hair Rick Perry himself telling me so (after I wrote to ask him about September/ Leukemia). I didn't even see a story about it in the paper, on the news, heck, I had to search long and hard to find it online.

Maybe you didn't know about it because you are deluged with pink. The Pinking of October has become like another Holiday - Christmas decorations in September. It disgusts me.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't begrudge fundraising by any means for cancer. I hate cancer! But what I do begrudge is buying the CEO of Yoplait his 5th Ferrari or whatever. Ok. So you buy 5 yogurts. You lick the lids (gross right there) then mail them in to Yoplait. That's a 50 cent donation - woo! Uh, not really.... remember the whole 'you gotta mail them in' and the .39 cent stamp? You just in effect made an .11 cent donation. If they really cared about breast cancer, why do they make people do this? Why not just donate a percentage of the pink lid sales?

Because they know that people would be kinda pissed off if they realized just how much money Yoplait, part of General Mills, makes off this campaign. The Yoplait line alone made 1.1 BILLION dollars in profits last year. Can anyone tell me how much money they donated to Komen? It sounds like a lot, but you can't buy that kind of goodwill (oh, I guess you can); and the lust for huge profits by capitalizing on the fear of cancer... ohhhh... mastectomies... chemo... is kind of shameless don't you think? They don't make that donation, their customers feel guilty and they buy that nasty tasting yogurt (I'm an organic yochick) thinking they are helping - the money comes from the consumers. Minimum donation this year is $500k. That's a lot of nasty pink foil.

Make your donation directly to your breast cancer charity of choice. Or to someone doing a race for the cure or Avon walk or something. "Think before you pink" (http://thinkbeforeyoupink.org) Refuse to buy pink stuff before you know the facts. Do they donate ALL their pre-tax profits to the charity (like Paul Newman does). Which charity is it exactly? What are they funding? Do they cap the maximum donation? Do they keep most of the profits?

e.g. 3-M spent $500,000 marketing the biggest post it pink ribbon in Times Square. Then they make a $300,000 donation. Why is that? Am I the only one that finds that kind of sinful?

Just as a curiosity, I wonder if men would allow the Greening of January to bring awareness to prostate cancer. Everywhere you turn there's a little green ribbon and green beer or green soup or yogurt. You can buy green shorts that say, "save the boys" or "protect my privates." Shop for the cure. Buy toast for testicles. Green shoes and gum and deoderant and test cars for prostate awareness. Click on this link and a man will get a free prostate exam... only 40,000 clicks per 1 exam. Tents, coolers, umbrellas, chocolates, candy, shaving cream. Buy a Rolex and we will throw in a free green jock strap.

I feel kind of ill when I see all the pink stuff in the stores. I purposely will go out of my way not to buy any pinking October stuff. I shouldn't feel guilty. If you know someone with breast cancer... pay their electric bill, offer to drive them to treatment, mail them a letter, send out letters to Congress or to these companies to tell them that we won't be duped anymore. We are not going to mail in your disgusting licked lids for a pittance. Consolidate even 10% of the profits from pink purchases and you'd make a boatload more than what is actually donated.

We want real funding for real cures and help for those in treatment cos their ain't no magical fund that will pay your bills when you get too sick to work. We want a cure. Not a stinking pink ribbon.

My inspiration is Jeanne Sather, The Assertive Cancer Patient and my beautiful Grandmother and all my lovely friends who know exactly what I'm sayin.

Deb, the Debutaunt

I can do this. I'm Relentless for the Cure at www.teamzoe.net

Your assignment for today is to tell me about the most obscene Pinkwasher you have seen so far. What was the dumbest item found?

Posted by debutaunt at October 7, 2007 08:43 PM