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A tanning salon – a business that causes melanoma and other skin cancers – is promoting a walk of bikini-wearing women in summer sun to break an amusing world’s record. This parade will … See more What Does a Bikini Parade Have to Do with Breast Cancer? When I first heard the Susan G. Komen Foundation is nixing its financial support of Planned Parenthood, I thought it might be a mistake. Maybe a rogue affiliate or anti-choice officer had acted independently of the group’s core and mission, and the press got the early story wrong. I waited for Nancy G. Brinker, Komen’s surviving sister, to step in and deny the BC agency’s change of plans. That didn’t happen. Rather, in a stilted video released yesterday, Brinker defends her agency’s decision as part of a “strategic shift” having to do with funding for any organization under investigation. That’s a bogus excuse, as others have detailed. Komen, the world’s largest BC agency, has been under scrutiny for some time. Through its early fundraising campaigns and walks, the group raised public awareness — and discussion — of the disease. Since its inception in 1982, the agency has invested over See more A Note on the Komen Fiasco 
This story, shared today by Debbie Woodbury, warrants ML Annals of Pink inclusion: The Arizona Republic reports on a divided community in Gilbert, AZ. At issue is the high school cheerleading team’s plan to wear pink tee shirts with the slogan: “Feel for lumps — save your bumps” on the back. The group’s intention was to raise awareness and funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The school’s principal said no to the controversial outfits due to their “unacceptably suggestive” content. What strikes me, among other interesting aspects of this story and what it reflects about BC awareness in 2011, is how the arguments (so needless!) about fundraising play out so differently, depending where you live and the newspapers you might read. — Related Posts:A Note on the Komen FiascoPink’s OK With MeWhat Does a Bikini Parade Have to Do with Breast Cancer?Komen Update – Future Plans?A Confused Message on Breast Cancer In a Restaurant Window 
This morning, while walking home after a deep-water exercise class, I passed this sign in a restaurant window: The poster says this: “WE SUPPORT THE AMERICAN BREAST CANCER SOCIETY AND THE MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER WALK.” The confused message intrigues me, not so much for its substantive and grammatical errors, but for the proprietor’s intentions. Most likely, and this is but an inference, they genuinely wish to express support for people affected by BC and, in a win/win sort of strategy, also hope it will draw more patrons into their small dining establishment. It’s a near-perfectly imperfect example of the Pinking of America. Maybe the problem’s not with the ribbon, but with the erroneous messages we take in at a glance, without critical thinking, and the frequent connections to commerce. Can there be too much awareness in America of a prevalent, lethal health problem? Not sure - — See more A Confused Message on Breast Cancer In a Restaurant Window 
On Sunday, Feb. 20, the Northeastern Pennsylvania Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure will host its seventh annual Pink Elegance on Parade fashion show at the Radisson at Lackawanna Station hotel, reports the Scranton Times Tribune. The fundraiser will feature breast cancer survivors and others modeling fashions from Coldwater Creek, Lee’s Denim Diner, Luna Bleu and Suburban Casuals. Some BC survivors, thrivors, thrivers, in-the-throws-ers and whatever we might call ourselves (I still can’t make up my mind on this) express disdain. Others, lately, convey cynicism, if not frank contempt, for the pink cancer culture in its entirety. Pink is tacky, pretty and possibly too rosy a color to link with the fate of so many sick and dying women. I half-agree. But then again, I’ve never favored pastels: See more Pink’s OK With Me 
“…like a gift with a ribbon around it” ? I’m not so sure about these lyrics. The featured song, “You Won’t Dance Alone” by a band called “The Best Day Ever,“ See more Pink Glove Dance, The Sequel The question is, what’s the right, PC and emotionally-sound, sensitive but not sappy term to describe the situation of a person who’s living after breast cancer? Some might say, who cares if you’ve had it? See more The “Survivor” Term After Breast Cancer: Is There a Better Expression? |
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