Pink Ribbons Inc. (trailer)

[UnrepentantLiberal]

[seabeyond]

1. YES.... it is so good to hear i am not the only out there.

i said in another post earlier, last year i stopped donating. i have hated where this has gone. the first year or two, was yea. the last three years i have progressively come to disgust.

http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/rethink_breast_cancer_save_the_boobs .... this is the first VIDEO i saw. it isnt embedded because it was taken off youtube. be sure to go into link.

this last year, going thru the stores, seeing all the pink of products saying.... BUY ME, BUY ME.... made me walk around the store ranting. i have had women telling me "fuck that, i have breast cancer, whatever it takes". whatever it takes has never worked for me.

[zazen]

3. I reject the "breast cancer survivor" identity

but it was heresy to bring up how icky I felt about all of this during my own diagnosis and treatment six years ago. It's good people have woken up to it. Honestly, there a few women in the support groups who had become professional breast cancer survivors. They went to conferences, handed out bling, were on speaker circuits, were part of PR stuff. I guess that's how some women cope, but turning that into my identity felt self-indulgent as well as like I was being used as a fake way for people to say they cared about women's issues.

I wish people were half as compassionate about mental illness.

[seabeyond]

4. oh zazen.... i think that is what is the relief for me.

i have such compassion, but not experienced it. so for me to say anything, exactly what you are saying, left me open to attack.

but i felt for women, that i know had to feel insulted by the "partying" almost of a horrible disease that kills.

to me, it felt so offensive. as i said especially the last couple years, and this year did it.

thank you for telling us how you feel. you deserve a voice beyond all of us and so wrong for you to feel you can not express.

[redqueen]

5. Fucking hell.

Those two clips in the first video... that wasn't the audio they used, was it?

And the second one... just ugh.

Fucking hell.

[seabeyond]

7. did you see the first one? i just have link because they took it off youtube. no picture.

i dont want people to miss that one. that is the first one of these i saw.... was a huge WTF????

and yes, that was the audio on the second commercial. yea.

be sure to go into the site to see the first one though.

[redqueen]

9. I went to the link and saw it.

It was good to see that the commentary from the audience wasn't as peurile as I would expect it to be if posted in GD or ... well, most other places around the net.

I'm really shocked at the audio of that first one you posted though. I sincerely cannot believe that is the original audio.

[seabeyond]

10. use women, against women, for women. interesting, huh? nt

[redqueen]

11. No... not for women...

for boooooobies!

[seabeyond]

12. it is suppose to be.... for sick women. how much they actually get

i dont know.

on edit... true that. for the boobies. ya.

[hlthe2b]

2. This is the message I have tried to explain to others over the past several years...

but this documentary will do so far better than I ever could. Has it been released? I hope it can be disseminated very widely.

WHEN Nancy Brinker comes on and talks about how THEY have donated 1 billion $$ towards breast cancer, it makes my blood boil. Where the hell do you think YOU got the $$ that has lined your own personal coffers, Nancy? I wonder if she ever really thinks of that dead sister, upon whose name and memory she has traded all these years. I am so glad the word is getting out and the fact that it is, is largely from their own hubris.

[redqueen]

6. I wish I was aware of this crap before.

I like pink so I would usually buy a few necessities in pink, figuring why not... no more.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Wow, that's quite a group of speakers in that trailer.

I recognize Dr. Susan Love (at time marks 0:29, 1:47) and Barbara Ehrenreich (1:20)but can't put names on the other women. Anyone recognize others?

I hate the pink saturation each October.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

13. Here's a good article on it.

http://arts.nationalpost.com/2012/02/03/review-pink-ribbons-inc-explores-the-politics-of-breast-cancer-fundraising/