It's Pinktober again.
I've come to dislike the plethora of pink merchandise - commercialism of pink ribbon and breast cancer for profit.
I'm just over two years out from my Breast cancer and two days into October I've seen some bizarre campaigns to promote awareness or in the name of donating to research.
Several breast cancer bloggers I follow are disgusted about one hotel chain's plan to raise money and awareness for breast cancer - by promoting a woman in a provocative pose with their “Get into Bed for the Cause” campaign offering guests luxurious pink sheets, pink robes ...
I am just as appalled.
Each year an increasing number of pink products are being pumped out and pimped with a pretty pink ribbon.
Breastless and bald doesn't make an advertising campaign. The all things pink and pink ribbon has been hijacked by some
Yes, while contributing only a fraction of the profits they proceed to lure people into buying for a good cause - yet are you really donating to charity or to the cure ?
Make a bigger difference by donating directly to your Cancer charity of choice.
We're aware. Please find a cure for my friends diagnosed with 'terminal' secondary (breast and other) cancers that will ultimately cut short their life and give them grief and suffering trying to outlive the treatment.
Many were diagnosed early and it made no difference. The cure is what we need.
This is what breast cancer really looks like, not a woman in bed, legs in the air - adorned in a pink robe.
I'm a survivor of life, and all its challenges so far . I don't know if I will survive my two different cancers. I say I had Breast cancer , if someone wants to know and I'm a warrior not quite a survivor. I will live in it's shadows always.
My battle scars from the storms and wars I've weathered remind me every day. There is no avoiding it I feel even when my clothes cover the scars.
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