Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

It's like 330,000,000 forks, when all you need is a knife.

It's sad as hell to be sure, but given the juxtaposition of what she fought against and what actually killed her in the end, this needed the ironic tag.

I blame her for starting the whole stupid magnetic ribbon fad.

And Komen promptly bought the rights and made millions from the misery of others.

she createrd the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon? I wonder how that brainstorming session went...

how about yellow? nope, bring our troops home. red? AIDS. blue? child abuse. green? organ donation. purple? alzheimers. pink? anyone? fark it, use pink.

Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

Irony, no?

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

To be fair, there are a LOT of different cancers out there, and people are often most motivated to donate to research related to one they have been touched by through personal experience or that of a friend or family member.

To be even more fair, though, when you're talking wishes (magic)... anything short of 'Heaven on Earth' is kind of stupid.

GLove88mph: And Komen promptly bought the rights and made millions from the misery of others.

THIS
How much money has been spent on pink NFL equipment that should have been used for research?
Y'all bein' trolled... and trolled hard!

She had some kind of cunning cancer, I see. Just moved away from her breasts to another area.

Unsung_Hero: To be fair, there are a LOT of different cancers out there, and people are often most motivated to donate to research related to one they have been touched by through personal experience or that of a friend or family member.

That's not entirely fair. Breast cancer receives attention, money, and effort that is enormously out of proportion to its effect on the population - and that's mostly the result of advertising. Breast cancer is easy to market - it's sort of sexy (breasts!) and it's very easy to target a large consumer demographic (women, here's pink stuff to buy!). Combine that will an astoundingly good marketing team, and you have what we see today.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

So what you want is some kind of scientific effort to understand how matter organizes itself into life, so we can debug it? Sort of like a life extension effort?

Quantum Apostrophe: So what you want is some kind of scientific effort to understand how matter organizes itself into life, so we can debug it? Sort of like a life extension effort?

Ahh, a medical singularity nutter. With the amount of money wasted on selfish idiots trying to live forever, we could fix the world's problems NOW.

Cancer in general is bad way to go out, and hopefully one day we'll manage to cure all cancers instead of the ones that get more face time with the public.

/Personally thinks lung cancer is worse than breast cancer
//Then again cancer is cancer, and lung cancer is most likely found with people who smoke.

Ah, so someone who successfully sexualized cancer and made it entirely about objectifying women's bodies died of a horrible disease.

I can't say I'm too terribly sad.

dbirchall: Farty McPooPants: How much money has been spent on pink NFL equipment that should have been used for research?

And don't forget all the rodeo riders wearing pink now, too.

So... um... what color ribbon is for ovarian cancer awareness?

It's a grey ribbon. I did a fundraiser for ovarian cancer research a few years back.

I'm sorry to hear she got canned from life, being bazooked by that ovarian cancer. It was my understanding that cantaloupes or any type of melons would help keep cancer at bay, or even coconuts, chestnuts, cupcakes or anything you can drink from milk jugs. I guess sometimes in the airship race of life, the two zeppelins in a dead heat finally ends and that terrible affliction takes its final toll.

It's a lot of stress, even reading about someone elses mortality. I'll go play my favorite track, Come In Tokio, mostly using dueling banjos and french horns, subtle rifts of various honkers, jingle bells and gazzongas. I find it relaxes me, takes me to my favorite place, Magic Mountains, and keeps my head afloat from the bad times, like some kind of floatation device. Working the hands on some stress relief fun bags doesn't hurt either.

Well the sweater kittens are meowing, time to feed them breakfast. I'll go fire up the lactation station and let those mammary cannons fire for effect. Might as well finish season 5 of Twin Peaks while i'm at it. Here's to hoping life doesn't throw any more whoppers our way today.

Ta Ta for now guys.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich:

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

Came here to basically say this, left satisfied.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

Maybe the person who wrote it had breast cancer.

Boy, did she really back the wrong horse.

stonelotus: she createrd the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon? I wonder how that brainstorming session went...

how about yellow? nope, bring our troops home. red? AIDS. blue? child abuse. green? organ donation. purple? alzheimers. pink? anyone? fark it, use pink.

The pink ribbon campaign is the earliest one I can recall*; it seems the ones that followed merely copied her idea.

Yeah, no citations except to find that she started it in 1991. I don't have the time or the inclination to wade through all those google results trying to find out if she was actually first.


* apologies to Tony Orlando & Dawn

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Mentat: I'm not saying we need brown prostate awareness ribbons or shirts that say "I'm not an asshole but I'd like to keep mine", but it really is time to regain some perspective.

I think I need to start an advertising agency and hire you.

Do any of you old farkers remember Nancy Reagan's 'just say no' campaign? It was pretty obvious that no one involved in that gave half a damn about whether poor minority kids did drugs or not. The message, choice of celebrities, etc. was not tailored to at-risk kids in any way. It was a vehicle for upper middle class busybody women to make themselves look good and for Nancy Reagan to get positive non-astrology publicity.

The same is true for any ribbons, anywhere. You help no one, you are not a better person in any way by ever wearing any ribbon of any kind, ever, imho.

If you want to cure cancer, study medicine or write a big check.

ps - if you get a ribbon on your uniform, from a government, for killing a really unusual quantity of bad guys, you get a pass.

Well, in all fairness, she did have breast cancer at one point in her life.

Anyway, I hate the pink campaign - have for years. It's an marketing tool that preys on fear and emotion.

FredaDeStilleto: Well, in all fairness, she did have breast cancer at one point in her life.

Anyway, I hate the pink campaign - have for years. It's an marketing tool that preys on fear and emotion.

It's the only campaign I know of that encourages women to let guys grope their breasts. Have a bit of perspective.

These days, the pink ribbon is more of a marketing technique than anything else, but I'm sure it was a good awareness mechanism back when Ms.Lauder thought it up.

My personal bugaboo is an event held across Canada every year called "The Weekend to End Breast Cancer" that involves a walk and other things. After the weekend Is over and breast cancer still exists, it implies that the weekend's efforts were a failure. Yet they still give it the same name the following year.

I am really sick of the breast cancer awareness ribbons, gloves, whistles, etc during NFL games. Everything has its place. Perhaps they should do this sort of thing during WNBA games? Shouldn't NFL games have testicular awareness ribbons or the like? Erectile dysfunction ribbons?

Pink ribbons at male sporting events are just part of the process of the further demasculinization of men. Men cannot have something all their own anymore. Women sideline reporters.... females wanting access in the locker room....Just watch any ad on TV and the husband is always some idiot that doesn't understand how the cable works or what phone to buy. In my experience, its the exact opposite.

Football and the like are nothing other than the sport itself. (This goes for the military as well. I served in the Army and still hate it. Watching all those people cheer like they would ever get their lazy asses out of their seat and pick up a rifle and stand their post. Military flyovers have nothing to do with the NFL. Only propaganda.)

Step back ladies. Let the men play ball and raise your money some other way. Just divorce your man, take half his money, and donate that.

Unsung_Hero: FredaDeStilleto: Well, in all fairness, she did have breast cancer at one point in her life.

Anyway, I hate the pink campaign - have for years. It's an marketing tool that preys on fear and emotion.

It's the only campaign I know of that encourages women to let guys grope their breasts. Have a bit of perspective.

Fark yeah. Im all for a campaign that encourages the wife to put her titties in my hands/mouth/whatever more often.

An occasion in which the ironic tag would actually be correct, and subby swings and misses.

I refuse to give any money to Komen. I support several cancer charities (I'm participating in Movember right now), but I won't give money to a "charity" that sues other charities over the words "for a cure" and then puts their pink ribbon on products which I believe cause cancer, including Diet Sodas (and regular sodas).

My wife died of cervical cancer in 2009. One of my nicknames for her was "Ladybug". Because there doesn't seem to be a ribbon or awareness campaign for cervical cancer, I have made the ladybug the symbol for my personal fight against that particular disease.

As much as I want to believe otherwise, I don't think a cure for cancer will be found in my lifetime. Too many people are making too much money off those who have it. Greed always trumps compassion it seems.

/Ladybug Love!

Sad Evelyn Lauder, who created the pink breast cancer awareness ribbon and raised $330 million for research, dies of ovarian cancer. I has a sad


You had me right up till the end smitty...and then ruined it by making it a glib comment. -5 for being a complete ass.

My condolences to her family. And a "thank you." It was a year ago this week that my wife learned that her decade long "disagreement" with breast cancer had run out of time and medical advances. And those damned pink ribbons had helped keep her spirits up during those ten years, because she knew that someone out there cared. So, snark all you want (I know I did), but for the patients and their families, those pink ribbons actually do make a difference, at least psychologically.

smokinbuddha: I am really sick of the breast cancer awareness ribbons, gloves, whistles, etc during NFL games. Everything has its place. Perhaps they should do this sort of thing during WNBA games? Shouldn't NFL games have testicular awareness ribbons or the like? Erectile dysfunction ribbons?

Pink ribbons at male sporting events are just part of the process of the further demasculinization of men. Men cannot have something all their own anymore. Women sideline reporters.... females wanting access in the locker room....Just watch any ad on TV and the husband is always some idiot that doesn't understand how the cable works or what phone to buy. In my experience, its the exact opposite.

Football and the like are nothing other than the sport itself. (This goes for the military as well. I served in the Army and still hate it. Watching all those people cheer like they would ever get their lazy asses out of their seat and pick up a rifle and stand their post. Military flyovers have nothing to do with the NFL. Only propaganda.)

Step back ladies. Let the men play ball and raise your money some other way. Just divorce your man, take half his money, and donate that.

If you allow a woman to emasculate you, then you get what you deserve for voluntarily giving up your man card.

Kaiser Bill's Batman: My condolences to her family. And a "thank you." It was a year ago this week that my wife learned that her decade long "disagreement" with breast cancer had run out of time and medical advances. And those damned pink ribbons had helped keep her spirits up during those ten years, because she knew that someone out there cared. So, snark all you want (I know I did), but for the patients and their families, those pink ribbons actually do make a difference, at least psychologically.

Indeed...my current wife is a survivor. She was diagnosed when we were dating.

Handy for her im a nurse, so i was able to take care of her when she was too weak from chemo to feed herself or take a bath on her own. The latter created a few awkward moments for her kids (moms new bf giving her bedbaths) but she is now cancer-free for the last 5 yrs.

My condolences to you sir. You arent alone.

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

With all the money that gets awash in the Breast Cancer industry it amazes me nobody ever mentions the law of diminishing returns

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich: Unsung_Hero: Ahh... but she didn't die of BREAST cancer, so her cunning plan was technically successful.

I was once reading the side of like a papercup at some coffee place, and it had messages people had left with their wishes printed in their handwriting. Someone had written "a cure for breast cancer." She actually took the time to write "breast" as the only kind of cancer she wanted cured. Prostate cancer? fark men. Skin cancer? biatches shouldn't have gone tanning. Stomach cancer? Who gives a fark. But breast cancer, we need a cure for that NOW.

Sometimes I really hate people.

So you see a someone wish for a cure for breast cancer and the first thing through your head is "fark that selfish biatch!"

It must be pretty hard being you. That's a lot of anger you got there.

Our kids little league football wore pink socks with their uniforms for Breast Cancer Awareness. It was so popular with the boys they wore them for every game. One of the teams went undefeated this season and won the Youth Superbowl. This tradition started with the high school team doing it as a fundraiser.

As much as I think the pink ribbon stuff is just marketing and not as much money gets to the families in need, I thought this was cool.

King_Web: iron

King_Web: It's sad as hell to be sure, but given the juxtaposition of what she fought against and what actually killed her in the end, this needed the ironic heronic tag.