Tired of the Pink campaign?

• thavoice

  Anyone else getting a little tired of this whole Pink campaign that seemingly gets bigger and bigger each year?
  
  It has gone the way of a marketing campaign and money grab if you ask me.
  
  I am not some insensitive jerk, well maybe I am, but not on this issue as my grandma had breast cancer, my mother as well, twice, and probably a good chance my sisters will as well so it def has touched our family quite a bit.
  
  It almost is becoming more of an annoyance over awareness. PUt the word PINK on a bag of dogshit this month and women will buy it.
  
  
  Discuss.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  This is a big topic of conversation on another board I post on.
  
  It is about a 75/25 split, with the 75 being enough is enough. My mother is a breast cancer survivor and we've donated a few hundred dollars to the Komen foundation. So we are very aware. The 25 say it is for a good cause (and it is) and deal with it.
  
  That said, the entire month of pink stuff is annoying.
• Mohican00

  

  if you let something like this bother you, maybe you should reevaluate some things
• justincredible

  

  I don't even notice it anymore. It doesn't bother me at all.
• Manhattan Buckeye

  Mohican00;1521840 wrote:if you let something like this bother you, maybe you should reevaluate some things

  It bothers if it is counterproductive. If we had a breast cancer week, or even a day we would probably see more donations and people involved. At this point we might have a breast cancer year or decade.
• Fab4Runner

  

  It doesn't bother me. I am more worried about charities not getting the percentage of proceeds they should be getting.
  
  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/only-81-nfl-pink-merchandise-sales-go-toward-cance/
• cruiser_96

  

  Every day is Breast Cancer Awareness!!! Donate today!!!
• Manhattan Buckeye

  There has to be a Seinfeld AIDS ribbon joke here somewhere.
• sleeper

  

  I've been saying this whole PINK shit is a bunch of BS. Sports teams started doing it to grab more female viewers so its pure marketing that the other gender just gobbles up.
  
  The reality is, Komen is a POS charity that has an extremely high overhead and blows most of its money on PINK marketing. I also find it hilarious that women only seem to care about breast cancer and female related everything whereas male diseases rarely get any attention. This is why women will always be the weaker sex; they can be manipulated much easier because their emotions seem to override any common sense, logic, and reason(also why a good chunk of women vote for the left; because the left is very good at manipulating the emotional side of people).
• like_that

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1521857 wrote:There has to be a Seinfeld AIDS ribbon joke here somewhere.

  Who?!?? Who doesn't want to wear ze ribbon!!!?
• Fab4Runner

  

  sleeper;1521863 wrote:I've been saying this whole PINK shit is a bunch of BS. Sports teams started doing it to grab more female viewers so its pure marketing that the other gender just gobbles up.
  
  The reality is, Komen is a POS charity that has an extremely high overhead and blows most of its money on PINK marketing. I also find it hilarious that women only seem to care about breast cancer and female related everything whereas male diseases rarely get any attention. This is why women will always be the weaker sex; they can be manipulated much easier because their emotions seem to override any common sense, logic, and reason(also why a good chunk of women vote for the left; because the left is very good at manipulating the emotional side of people).

  I don't vote for the left, I don't donate to Komen, and I care about all diseases and cancers. I don't think it's our fault that male diseases don't get as much attention. Maybe the men who run sports teams should do something about that.
• thavoice

  i am not saying it bothers me per say, but it seems like it has gone past the point of awareness and becoming more for profit.
  
  One could say the similiar thing can be said about Christmas and various other holidays that have jumped the shark to its original intentions/meanings to just become a money marketing machine.
  
  It is a bit comical to see women falling for it and gobbling up anything that says PINK on it, or is of the color.
  
  and fab4runner, I do believe male owners of MLB teams are starting something next year for prostate cancer awareness and will use blue baseballs for a game......
• Scarlet_Buckeye

  

  Fab4Runner;1521851 wrote:It doesn't bother me. I am more worried about charities not getting the percentage of proceeds they should be getting.
  
  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/oct/16/only-81-nfl-pink-merchandise-sales-go-toward-cance/

  
  THIS! It's definitely become more of a "marketing campaign" than a "cancer awareness", anytime 8% of sales is actually going into research. WHAT IS THE OTHER 92% OF SALES GOING TOWARDS?!?!?!
• Heretic

  

  Scarlet_Buckeye;1521878 wrote:THIS! It's definitely become more of a "marketing campaign" than a "cancer awareness", anytime 8% of sales is actually going into research. WHAT IS THE OTHER 92% OF SALES GOING TOWARDS?!?!?!

  
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html
  
  Things like this. Lawsuits to make sure no other charity tries to commit the mortal sin of using "For The Cure" in their name. Because everyone knows that actually working to cure a disease is secondary to preserving your slogan from other people touching it with their grubby little paws.
  
  Fuck Susan Komen.
• I Wear Pants

  thavoice;1521876 wrote:i am not saying it bothers me per say, but it seems like it has gone past the point of awareness and becoming more for profit.
  
  One could say the similiar thing can be said about Christmas and various other holidays that have jumped the shark to its original intentions/meanings to just become a money marketing machine.
  
  It is a bit comical to see women falling for it and gobbling up anything that says PINK on it, or is of the color.
  
  and fab4runner, I do believe male owners of MLB teams are starting something next year for prostate cancer awareness and will use blue baseballs for a game......

  On one hand I hate how little of the money the Koman people get goes towards actual research and such. On the other hand, 25% of $500 million is probably more than many of the other charities combine manage to use for the cause. (those numbers aren't real, just made them up for the sake of the example).
  
  Suing anyone that dares to use the color pink is what makes me dislike the Koman foundation more than anything.
• sleeper

  

  Fab4Runner;1521868 wrote:I don't vote for the left, I don't donate to Komen, and I care about all diseases and cancers. I don't think it's our fault that male diseases don't get as much attention. Maybe the men who run sports teams should do something about that.

  Why would men advocate anything for men? We do that and we are labeled misogynists and sexists. You can't win in a female victim dominated culture.
• Raw Dawgin' it

  

  October > February
• sleeper

  

  I Wear Pants;1521887 wrote:On one hand I hate how little of the money the Koman people get goes towards actual research and such. On the other hand, 25% of $500 million is probably more than many of the other charities combine manage to use for the cause. (those numbers aren't real, just made them up for the sake of the example).
  
  Suing anyone that dares to use the color pink is what makes me dislike the Koman foundation more than anything.

  Dumb argument. If people actually cared about breast cancer they wouldn't need PINK shoved in their face 24/7 which is where Komen spends a majority of their budget. Perhaps if less money was spent on "awareness"(also known as advertising for donations for Komen) we'd add 80% of the $500 million breast cancer bucket to research instead.
• I Wear Pants

  sleeper;1521896 wrote:Dumb argument. If people actually cared about breast cancer they wouldn't need PINK shoved in their face 24/7 which is where Komen spends a majority of their budget. Perhaps if less money was spent on "awareness"(also known as advertising for donations for Komen) we'd add 80% of the $500 million breast cancer bucket to research instead.

  I definitely think that if they're truly trying to benefit the cause of those with breast cancer they'd start switching more and more of their budget towards research rather than advertising/awareness. I doubt that's going to happen since I think they're too far gone at this point. Too much money to be made for everyone involved in the current model.
• Mohican00

  

  Manhattan Buckeye;1521847 wrote:It bothers if it is counterproductive. If we had a breast cancer week, or even a day we would probably see more donations and people involved. At this point we might have a breast cancer year or decade.

  counterproductive
  
  I get if you're questioning where the proceeds go, but just being irritated by the campaigns is ridiculous
• SportsAndLady

  

  I'd much rather see green awareness then pink
• OSH

  

  I don't like it.
• redstreak one

  

  At our school, they ask weekly for donations to wear jeans on Friday if you donate to breast cancer. This started 5 years ago when one of our fellow teachers was diagnosed, she is doing very well btw. It gets old, I stopped paying for jeans, which are less comfortable than the dress pants I wear, several years ago as has several other male teachers. We still get looks of why are you not wearing jeans, but I have had enough of it.
• thavoice

  I really dont know much about this Komen foundation and such.
  
  I guess what got me going "over the edge" was this weekend when I went to the mall (first time in Y E A R S) and store after store after store was touting their pink products. Shirts, cell phone cases, shoes ($180 nike shoes) etc.
  
  Awareness itself isnt bothersome to me,just the whole thing where everyone is trying to cash in stinks to me. Kinda like a golf course I heard on the news that was charging $9.11 for a round of golf on 9/11 for rememberance, yet nothing was being donated to any sort of fund. Just was a way for them to market their company.
  
  Kinda thought I was get blasted as a heartless bastard for starting this thread but glad to see I am not the only one who is sick of the overcommercialization of the awareness campaign.
• I Wear Pants

  thavoice;1521960 wrote:I really dont know much about this Komen foundation and such.
  
  I guess what got me going "over the edge" was this weekend when I went to the mall (first time in Y E A R S) and store after store after store was touting their pink products. Shirts, cell phone cases, shoes ($180 nike shoes) etc.
  
  Awareness itself isnt bothersome to me,just the whole thing where everyone is trying to cash in stinks to me. Kinda like a golf course I heard on the news that was charging $9.11 for a round of golf on 9/11 for rememberance, yet nothing was being donated to any sort of fund. Just was a way for them to market their company.
  
  Kinda thought I was get blasted as a heartless bastard for starting this thread but glad to see I am not the only one who is sick of the overcommercialization of the awareness campaign.

  It's not even the ubiquity that is the issue, it's that they focus more on advertising than on any effort to actually work towards better treatment or a cure.