[montag813]

now have a red ballcap to bring attention to prostate cancer

What is the point of "awareness"? Everyone is aware of these diseases, and the pittance of cash raised by Komen and other charities as like a grain of sand in the multi-billion dollar cancer research budgets of Big Pharma. These people are accomplishing nothing except making themselves feel important. It is just silly egotism.

[rabidralph]

I agree. I especially think it’s stupid that these companies that get involved in these causes (buy our product and we’ll donate $$ to this cause)—it’s just stupid. Just donate the money, already.

[visualops]

pittance of cash raised by Komen

You obviously don't know anything about the Komen Foundation. It's also apples and oranges to compare a single-topic charity to global corporations selling some of the most profitable items ever. For a targeted charity the Komen Foundation is awash in money, having successfully insinuated themselves in everything from cars to clothes to cereal, and not just during October. In 2008 the Foundation brought in $368 million in revenue.