Posted on 10/03/2010 7:14:38 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
I don't like the pink chin straps, wistles, towels, etc. being used by the NFL this week. There are better ways to support cancer awareness. Why should breast cancer be singled out? Why not prostate cancer?
I sure miss Pete Rozelle as NFL Commissioner.
It's sick ... twisted. It's such a blatant anti-masculine ploy. "Oh, so you men thought you had your little football refuge ... Think again." That's the meaning.
Perfect.
Just curious narses: why are we being pinged to this?
Thanks for the laugh this evening...your post is hysterical.
BTW...Here’s a new label for your tagline...The crowd at the nation one rally a.k.a. the ‘left’ are now known as “fleabaggers” LOL Of course because of all the trash they leave behind. Read that on a thread yesterday and thought it was good.
Thanks again for the laugh. :)
First of all, I can sympathize with anyone who has a major health problem but this pink crap has gone too far.
I really love watching football and don’t see why we have to watch the players all pinked up...THEY LOOK RIDICULOUS!!!
Hollywood did something similar with the red ribbons during awards season. Someone got bad press for refusing the red ribbon. (I don’t remember who)
Pink Ribbon Bump!
I have been asking my Postmaster for years for prostate cancer stamps...
They don't have the same fundraising machine as the cancer cartel...heart disease kills six times the number of women as breast cancer.
Yep, it’s all well and good when it’s a cause you support or can at least stomach. But once you let the PC monster out of the bag, it invariably takes every opportunity to eventually destroy the envelope.
I saw a pic where osama was holding a pink AK47! He loves women and any cause to help them! lol
I don’t at all see it as an anti-masculine gambit. In my view, it’s simply PC-ness gone amuck.
My main objection is (1) singling out one disease like this for massive, intrusive, indiscriminate marketing schemes sets a bad precedent, and (2) those who care about this cause are courting a backlash.
That is all.
Introduce yourself next time we meet in person. Thanks!
Piss off.
Rush cares more than anyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs35U6LGHgw
I didn’t say this was a new phenomenon. I said the Komen push has taken the usual corporate charity thing and gone almost to the point of being obnoxious.
I don’t know what you’re trying to argue here — that because something has been done before, it cannot become annoying or obnoxious in the future or in a new iteration?
Can you name one single disease or cause that had the equivalent omnipresent exposure as this pink thing? Comparing the pink thing to the United Way campaign only proves how the former dwarfs the latter. Were the ever red prescription bottletops or red cannisters at the bank drive-thru for AIDS awareness even?
In the end, isn’t it matter of opinion and personal preference whether a publicity campaign has left the usefulness realm and entered the obnoxious stage? There is no right or wrong here. There is only whether those who care about this cause want to guard against it becoming cheapened and overexposed, and they have to make up their own minds when that is in danger of happening.
I don't doubt you, but I'm curious as to where you got this info.
And I'm wondering if it's not a "little man" who in the year 2010 calls a grown woman who is a candidate for the United States Senate "your girl"?
That's embarrassing.
Anyway, bye. I'll be spending my time engaging those who have something substantive to say on the subject at hand.
Because in the politically-correct mindset, forms of cancer impacting their special interest groups -- in this case, feminists, especially those that have gotten breast cancer due to an abortion -- need to be funded more than other demographic groups.
Sexist heterosexual men deserve die young from prostate cancer. So, prostate cancer deserves less funding.
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