Posted on 10/03/2010 7:14:38 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
We went to the Pendleton, Oregon rodeo last month, a big deal out there, and they had the same thing. If you don’t think it was strange looking, having all those cowboys wearing pink shirts!
I have. MY MOM! So don't you try that guilt shit with me. WTF does it have to do with football? Do we see the WNBA wearing blue ribbons for prostate cancer? did you know that prostate cancer is grossly UNDERFUNDED compared to breast cancer - TWICE as much funding when almost the same number die every year. Ridiculous. This is P.C. run amok.
The canister at the drive-in window at my bank is pink now. I wish the money for all this pink stuff was given to the cause instead.
>A real man knows that supporting women isn’t a threat to his masculinity.<
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There must be a better way to support the cause against breast cancer than wearing pink ribbons. I have contributed for years to cancer research, but I’ll be dam..d if I wear a pink ribbon.
Wow, you appear to have a lot of angry. That’s not healthy, IMHO.
Failure to wear pink or have every consumer product known to man bathed in pink is in no way the moral equivalent of the pathetic view you project onto others.
The fact is that having pink all over the place does NOT mean that anyone cares any more than they would have. The people who care did and will. Those who don’t, didn’t and won’t. At the same time, shoving something in the consumer’s face just ends up making people exasperated and tired of the whole subject. That is not a good outcome, but that’s where this is going.
And maybe you missed the post where I said I have personal experience with breast cancer.
This isn’t nearly as dumb as every MLB player wearing 42 as his uniform number on Jackie Robinson Day.
That is the ultimate in political correctness (and stupidity).
Prostate cancer needs a good PR machine. This isn’t anymore PC than the old days of the United Way NFL campaign. It’s knowing that public charitability is good PR.
Excellent point.
Yes, it is.
The United Way, the league pushed that with commercials.
This, the pink stuff, makes it part of the game.
That is a bad precedent.
The league otherwise allows very few alterations to uniforms, for example to honor a deceased player. Then all of a sudden it is into whole hog uniform changes for . . . one disease?
This also is a bad precedent. Do commercials if you want. But don’t make it or anything else like it part of the game.
AMEN, first thing I think of is how much money someone is scamming off of charity. We could give billions every year, and the diseases will never be cured. Cancer charities exist for the same purpose the NAACP, or teachers unions do......they bring in money, and make people feel O SO WARM. Leave pharmaceutical companies alone, allow private individuals to make zillions off of a cure, that is how a malady is erased.
The league pushed UW with a lot more than commercials. There was a minimum number of hours players had to work on UW projects (with film crew) in the CBA, and there were UW logos all over the field and sidelines, and patches on the uniform during big pushes.
The only difference between this and the UW stuff is the coloring makes it more obvious.
Do you really think there is not a bandwagon effect, at the least?
My larger point remains.
None of us are choosing to have the majority of our consumer products, or our sports, making us participants in the Komen mega-marketing campaign.
It’s meaningless to impose “support” of a cause on people. It’s silly to imply “support” from people on whom a cause has been imposed.
Thank you.
Amen.
I do hope that those who truly care about breast cancer awareness and support start to get the fact that this has turned into a huge, essentially cold PR campaign — for the NFL, for corporations, for your bank — and it’s sheer pervasiveness will lead to its backlash.
Don’t agree.
Patches on uniforms are not equivalent to pink mouthguards, pink chinstraps, pink shoes, pink wristbands, pink towels, pink Gatorade cups, pink ballcaps, pink ribbon on the center field . . . and it goes on.
If it were a small patch like the old UW patch and then some commercials, this thread would not exist.
That is where your money is going if you donate to them.
By supporting Planned Parenthood, they are also supporting one of the major reasons there has been such an upsurge in the cases of breast cancer. Women who have abortions are more likely to acquire breast cancer.
When a woman is pregnant the hormone receptors in her breasts are naturally opened to prepare for later breast feeding. Those receptors are closed after the baby is born.
When an abortion takes place, there is no natural hormonal surge that takes place to close the receptors, so that the breast tissue then becomes fair game for cancer until she goes through another pregnancy and lets nature take its course. (If a woman has a miscarriage or a stillbirth, the receptors close naturally.)
Komen knows this information, however they make a lot of money getting everyone else to endorse their pink "breast awareness."
Many people thought that when they handed over their money to Komen they were giving to breast cancer research, but they weren't. I don't know if they have changed that policy. But, if they are now giving money to research it is probably not much.
I feel sorry for the women who have lost women in their lives through breast cancer, and give their time and money to such a duplicitous organization.
When they first started out, Komen only worked to raise "awareness" of breast cancer. Who has NOT heard of breast cancer?
Please see post #77
Those are all team and player option, there’s a list of minor items they can make pink and some players have gone for none of the above.
And let’s not forget UW goes way beyond patches on the uniform, you ever stop to notice why the Thanksgiving games get Superbowl-esque half time shows now?
http://dir.unitedway.org/nfl/timeline.cfm
This thread exists for the same reason last weeks thread complaining about the Spanish stuff existed (got pulled eventually): some people go through life looking for reasons to get mad. It’s just some pink crap, it changes absolutely NOTHING about the game, come the first weekend in November every single person complaining on this thread will have forgotten all about it, because they’ll have found something else to complain about. Heck you can see how superficial the complaining is just by the timing, the pink has been on display since the pre-game shows and it’s not until the second half of the last game that any of the complainers even bothered to notice.
Say what you will about the Swastika, it's a hell of a logo! That aside, no, of course, if you reduce it to the completely absurd, there are things I wouldn't wear.
But back in the real world, where that wouldn't happen, I'd do what I was told as long as I was getting paid and under contract. Pink helmet? Fine. If the big cheeses want to take care of business and promotions, that's their call.
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