Back in June, many major companies added a rainbow flag to their logo on social media as well as flying the Pride flag. Now, it is October which usually overwhelms you with endless pink. And yet, until today, I haven’t seen any of it. The Washington Redskins have their app with a pink background and there are a few pink ribbons on the field as well as the end zones in pink.
I’ve spent all weekend in the state capital of Illinois, Springfield, and haven’t seen any pink at all and I’ve walked by numerous government buildings including the state capital building.
I also haven’t seen any pink in the Chicago Loop.
I haven’t seen a single company logo include the pink ribbon on Facebook and Twitter either.
Was there enough backlash against the non stop Pink for October and breast cancer awareness’ that the trend has finally ended?
I didn’t know that it was pink awareness month but just last morning I did see a Komen display at the 7-11. Interestingly what they were selling was not pink nor did I see the words “for the cure” from a cursory glance at the display.
There’s plenty around, but I rejoice in the decrease, as well as the dwindling of smarmy infuriating “save the tatas!” “stuff the bra!” glurge. Everyone should stop buying pink water bottles with cute slogans (the producers of which typically donate 10%-0% to anything related to breast cancer care or research) and donate the damn money to metastatic cancer research.
ETA: Not backlash, which is too bad. Maybe they’re not making enough money to continue exploiting people with breast cancer and their supporters. Most of the pink shit has no relationship to funding breast cancer efforts.
My impression is that Komen was the driving force behind this movement, and the organization lost a lot of credibility and support in the Planned Parenthood debacle in 2012 and still has not recovered from it.
Although I flew on Delta yesterday and one of the flight attendants was wearing an all pink outfit.
Oh yeahhhh. Huh, you’re right, there hasn’t been the usual onslaught of goddamn pink everywhere. Always ground my gears so I rejoice at its diminishment.
I noticed two or three women with shirts like “Pink for October” or “Think Pink” that made me say “Oh, hey, is that this month?” but no onslaught. Oh, and constant Facebook ads for a local demolition derby and “Racin’ For Boobs!!!” :rolleyes:
I’m on the “Fuck Komen” wagon though so the less of it I see, the better.
From about 2004-2014, you couldn’t avoid the endless pink. Watch an NFL game and it looked like every player had puked a Peptol Bismol all over his uniform. Oh, by the way, they sold pink jerseys in the team store. It became impossible to avoid seeing a pink ribbon slapped onto everything, I swear there was a pink ribbon on packages of toilet paper. ‘Let’s defecate for the cure!’ And, as social media became more prominent, every company would add a pink ribbon to their logo on social media. Here’s an example from this year
Anyway, it became a huge marketing thing with almost no money actually going to breast cancer. And, quite frankly, it really wasn’t an issue which needed more ‘awareness’
Big thing there is 2 years ago the NFL switched to “Crucial Catch” for October, covering all cancers (I believe each team gets to choose what they want to raise awareness for).
As a breast cancer survivor who was diagnosed in October 2017, I say hurrah for the less pink crap. The Komen Foundation is not what many people think it is, and if you want to help people with breast cancer, donate to your local hospital, Gilda’s Club, or free clinic if you have one.
Barbara Ehrenreich has said that for her, the “Breast Cancer Bear” was pretty much the most demeaning thing she’d ever witnessed, and that was about 20 years ago.
I remember when nobody could talk about “breast cancer” because both “breat” and “cancer” would considered naughty words. Betty Ford SHOCKED the nation by talking openly about her breast cancer in 1974.
Someone donated a lot of books to our local library, and put them in a pink ribbon plastic tote, which I am currently using.