Pink October Shopping
Posted 10/9/2012
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I know I promised to lay off, but I can't help myself:
The Silliest Pink Crap Money Can Buy, None of Which Will Cure Breast Cancer
Erin Gloria Ryan
It's October! You know what that means - candy shelves overstuffed with fun sized candy bars, sweaters and boots and tights and scarves in Gap commercials - and everywhere you turn, pink crap for sale under the guise that buying it means that you're promoting Awareness® of Breast Cancer.
Thing is, not only is most of that crap doing nothing to actually cure breast cancer, it's attempting to translate cancer guilt into $PROFIT!$, sometimes in incredibly silly, unhelpful ways. Sometimes the very products hawking pink crap are actually selling products that cause cancer! Let's take a short tour through the most useless, hypocritical pink crap you can buy this October. For the Cure®.
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