What do you think of these?

Just taking care of business. Any opportunity to sell, sell, sell.

Raising awareness is good. And it’s been effective. But nobody owns a color. I agree, it wears on my patience to be constantly crusaded at, for any cause, no matter how worthy.

My honest reaction? Oh c’mon! Everyone knows what the deceased died of or they wouldn’‘t be at the funeral.

I’m certainly not offended – not any more than I am with all of the breast cancer shtick that’s out there in pink. it’s no worse than some ot the other funeral-related excesses that exist.

What’s more offensive to me is how the breast cancer folks have basically co-opted (stolen) the pink color to have this meaning, so that other causes/ideas/promotions can’t use pink any longer. See this article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html No one can use pink as fund-raiser color any more…..

The article that @anniereborn refers to shows a company with really bad taste. What the Komen people do is just nasty.

I think it’s tacky, it makes them look like ice-cream sellers and I really hope they ask permission from the family before just deciding to wear those ugly things.

I don’t think anything of that specific example.
If anyone wishes for something other than the tried & tested, traditional dress code for their funeral, then more power to them.

It’s too “in my face”.

I can see a dozen men walking around in pink blazers at funerals to help make the rich ceo’s of the cancer societies even richer and it makes me sick.
Could we have more runs, walks and red ribbons on football helmets to “raise awareness” of heart disease in women which far outranks cancer? I didn’t think so. The American Cancer Society. Big Bucks and women dying everywhere from their “treatments.” THEN the doctors say they’d never let their wives take chemo. It’s just a horrible pile of BS but you all send them your twenty bucks. I’m not.

Susan G Komen has already been exposed. Less people are falling for this crap.

Profiting from people’s grief.

All the pink crap in October is nothing but corporate advertising, and does nothing for breast cancer prevention, little with research, and nothing for those fighting for their lives. It’s all a “feel good” ad blitz so people don’t have to deal with how horrible breast cancer is.

If you want to fight breast cancer, go volunteer to listen to someone as they go through chemo or radiation treatment, or better yet, volunteer to clean their house while they are exhausted and sick from the chemo.

My 8-year-old grandson was so impressed when he saw that the Kansas City Chiefs were wearing pink socks to raise awareness of breast cancer and the need to support medical research that he asked to have a pink mouth guard and pink socks to go with his football uniform. Many of his teammates were so inspired when he explained his choices that they followed his example. He said to his mother: “It’s important to take care of the ‘TA TA’s.” His mom almost burst a gut in response to that comment from him. He is an amazing kid with a rare sense of humour that is so disarming.

I wish I could find the video, but infomania (RIP in peace current tv) did a great piece on something like this like 3 years ago.
http://feministing.com/2010/10/19/modern-lady-v-pinktober/

Obnoxious and campy.

My grandma is a breast cancer survivor. I don’t mind the pink stuff at all. Breast cancer research, the fight against blindness, and animal shelters are the only causes I will donate money to. It doesn’t bother me.

I get why people might find it obnoxious at this point, but I don’t know see how it’s degrading.

@livelaughlove21 I find it degrading because it puts a pretty pink face onto all of breast cancer. Have you seen some of the “walks” and events? It looks like a pepto bismal circus. It’s like if you put a shiny bow on it, it’s not so bad.

@anniereborn It’s just a color. All of these causes have a signature color. I’ve never heard anyone claim breast cancer “isn’t that bad” because of the association with the color pink. Is this just an issue of not liking the color itself?

@livelaughlove21 no, it has nothing to do with the color itself. but pink is what they use for all of this stuff. I don’t think the color is degrading. I think the color being put on everything possible and now funeral blazers is degrading for the reasons I said above.

There was a movie made called “Pink Ribbons, Inc.” The trailer for it itself can explain what I mean better. I’m not good at putting thoughts together, I guess.

Trailer for Pink Ribbons, Inc.

@anniereborn I can see how using breast cancer to turn a profit is wrong. But I think a lot of money has gone toward the research because of it. Funding for research is important. Without research, there will never be a cure.

I will also agree that people can touch individual lives by doing more personal things and it would make a bigger difference than buying a pink coffee mug from Wal-Mart and having a small percentage of what you pay go to the breast cancer foundation while you feel good about yourself for no good reason.

I’m still not offended by the pink, though.

I am tired of it. I am not offended that people wear it, don’t get me wrong. I just feel like we are doing this and giving money and it’s sooo much money and sooo many people are wearing this color and it’s for this cause and sooo many people are still dying and it’s for this cause and there is still no cure for this cause.

That’s the part that bothers me. How much money do they need? How much time do they need? Because people like you and I or you’re mother and mine don’t have that time or their mothers who died from the cancer and even men have to worry. So will they save my daughter or will she just be another Angelina Jolie casualty.

Many things in our lives need to be fixed, It is amazing how brainwashed we really are.

Another smart marketing technique! I have always loved the color pink, but pink at a funeral is just dead wrong!