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Want to Write a Guest Post for Women and ...There's Nothing Pretty About the Pink in the New Documentary 'Pink Ribbons, Inc.'
I don't want to take anything away from any woman who is figuring out a way to fight and survive this horrible scourge, but don't you think that this whole happy pink cancer world has just gone too far?
The movie digs in and shows how breast cancer has been corporatized and made to look prettier than the devastating disease it is. One person in the film calls the way we deal with breast cancer the "tyranny of cheerfulness." The film shows also women fighting the disease who are in stage 4 and dying who feel that this way of dealing with breast cancer has made them and their fight invisible because everyone wants you to be focused on the happy part of cancer. As if there is one.
Towards the end of the film it gets to the kicker -- that for all the fundraising and walks we still are not making enough forward progress in preventing and treating the disease. No for the anger part. AstraZeneca is the company that makes Atrazine which causes cancer and has been banned in Europe. For some reason Atrazine is still allowed to be used here in the US even though studies have shown that it causes frogs to develop different sex organs. This shit is in your water. The company also makes Faslodex which is a drug given to women with metastatic cancer. So they cause the cancer and make money by giving you a drug to save you from cancer.
And Revlon, which has given millions for cancer and is the leading corporation in this movement, has carcinogens in their products. Yes ladies, your lipstick has carcinogens in it. Bet you didn't know that.
But what made me angriest was the realization that a woman who gets cancer today will probably have almost the same exact treatment that her mother had a generation ago. Women are still being slashed, burned and poisoned.
This documentary made me so angry and it was a true wake up call. It's one of the docs where you see what's behind the wizard's curtain and quite frankly what is there is neither pretty nor pink.
The film opens in NY and LA today. It will roll out across the country in the coming weeks. Here is info.
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Linda Lou | June 3, 2012 5:26 AM
I can't wait to see this movie. Breast cancer runs on both sides of my family and took my aunt and grandmother. So far, I've been spared. I am a stand-up comic and do a bit about breast cancer that makes audiences go nuts. I hesitate to share this YouTube link, "What Breast Cancer Can Suck" because it is vile and disgusting and very politically incorrect and the quality is poor. But it is pretty funny. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAkfIjMx_z0&feature=youtu.be
Korky Day | June 1, 2012 1:46 PM
Breast cancer killed my mother and afflicted 2 others in my family. Polluters are guilty, as are all patriarchal societies which inhibit women from breastfeeding as long as they want to, wherever they want to. Breastfeeding is a proven cancer preventive. But what oppressive corporation can profit from that? Women who breastfeed for several years, such as in the 3rd World, have much lower cancer rates. Women should be empowered to breastfeed at every workplace possible. My friend breastfeeds while she announces on the radio.