Only in America would corporations tell consumers that the best way to help women be aware about a disease is to buy pink stuff.
I don't know how the "buy pink crap" idea got started as a method to raise fund to help find a cure to breast cancer came, and I don't want to bother wikiing it; but I do know that it has become a commercialized cause.
Sometime last century, the month of October was labeled Breast Cancer Awareness month. They might as well call it "buy stupid pink products to help yourself feel better about not helping the homeless" month. The companies that are involved give pennies of the dollar to the breast cancer research. I would prefer if women just wrote a check to the cancer research groups and save time by not going shopping at the mall. But American women are unable to pass an opportunity to shop.
Any woman over the age of 14 knows that they're supposed to check their breast for lumps regularly. Even in third world countries they do it. Why do people in this country see the need to buy another Coach bag to help them remember of breast cancer?
I say that all women who actually go out and buy any of these pink products for the purpose of helping find a cure for breast cancer should have their heads examine.
While we are on the subject of doing stupid things to find cures to diseases, I say that people should stop walking for cures as well. Walk because you want to lose weight and be healthy. Don't walk to save the children, cure blindness and breast cancer. That's retarded! And please don't give Jerry Lewis any more of your money on Labor Day, to find the cure for Muscular Dystrophy. As long as Jerry is alive the cure is never coming. Once there is a cure what is Jerry Lewis going to do on Labor Day?
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