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	<title>Comments on: Neff: Merchandizing breast cancer</title>
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		<title>By: Arthur W. Graves</title>
		<link>http://www.365gay.com/opinion/neff-merchandizing-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-87447</link>
		<dc:creator>Arthur W. Graves</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My Mom pass away from Breast Cancer. I was also dum founded when I heard how high it was in the Lesbine community.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My Mom pass away from Breast Cancer. I was also dum founded when I heard how high it was in the Lesbine community.</p>
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		<title>By: Facebook User</title>
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		<dc:creator>Facebook User</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is an excellent article.  I admit early on in reading I disagreed with you about the campaign being a bad thing early on.  We recently had a discussion about this in my non profit class.  The entire phenomenon of people giving for the wrong reasons.  I personally believe that it doesn&#039;t really matter why people give as long as they are giving.  However, it does matter what is being done by the people who are receiving the money.  I think the pink ribbon program is good for what it&#039;s worth.  It&#039;s a marketing campaign to raise money for breast cancer research.  That&#039;s all it&#039;s ever really been, and that is indeed a good thing.  It allows people to give without really making any change to their regularly schedule spending habits, which increases monetary resources.  Awesome.

However, the question that this article really raises is &quot;Is that all the campaign should be?&quot;.  I am inclined to say no.  It should be more than it is.  It should be educational, and address a broader set of concerns in terms of how does society deal with this disease.  I think the example of cosmetics to make people feel better about themselves is a perfect example.  It&#039;s frivolous to the extreme.  I understand where they are coming from, and they aren&#039;t completely off mark per se, but they&#039;re still mostly off mark.  It&#039;s a similar approach to the women who after loosing a breast to cancer have that part of their body elaborately tattooed so they can make it beautiful again and reclaim themselves.  The tattoo process is dramatic and has specific psychological trans formative effects because of the ritualized nature of it, and that the women have to invest so much in the process.  Throwing on some mascara that was given to you is I&#039;m sad to say throwing a coat of paint on a substantial problem.  We need to address the issues in a more meaningful way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is an excellent article.  I admit early on in reading I disagreed with you about the campaign being a bad thing early on.  We recently had a discussion about this in my non profit class.  The entire phenomenon of people giving for the wrong reasons.  I personally believe that it doesn&#8217;t really matter why people give as long as they are giving.  However, it does matter what is being done by the people who are receiving the money.  I think the pink ribbon program is good for what it&#8217;s worth.  It&#8217;s a marketing campaign to raise money for breast cancer research.  That&#8217;s all it&#8217;s ever really been, and that is indeed a good thing.  It allows people to give without really making any change to their regularly schedule spending habits, which increases monetary resources.  Awesome.</p>
<p>However, the question that this article really raises is &#8220;Is that all the campaign should be?&#8221;.  I am inclined to say no.  It should be more than it is.  It should be educational, and address a broader set of concerns in terms of how does society deal with this disease.  I think the example of cosmetics to make people feel better about themselves is a perfect example.  It&#8217;s frivolous to the extreme.  I understand where they are coming from, and they aren&#8217;t completely off mark per se, but they&#8217;re still mostly off mark.  It&#8217;s a similar approach to the women who after loosing a breast to cancer have that part of their body elaborately tattooed so they can make it beautiful again and reclaim themselves.  The tattoo process is dramatic and has specific psychological trans formative effects because of the ritualized nature of it, and that the women have to invest so much in the process.  Throwing on some mascara that was given to you is I&#8217;m sad to say throwing a coat of paint on a substantial problem.  We need to address the issues in a more meaningful way.</p>
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		<title>By: Yhitzak</title>
		<link>http://www.365gay.com/opinion/neff-merchandizing-breast-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-74048</link>
		<dc:creator>Yhitzak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Capitalism rules and cancer and AIDS are a capitalist&#039;s dream. Why would anyone *cure* a disease when one could make untold amounts of money from its treatment, research, and, yes, marketing? The sad and ugly truth about cancer (and perhaps especially breast cancer) is that it is lucrative. We are not people, we are piles of money in the eyes of industry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Capitalism rules and cancer and AIDS are a capitalist&#8217;s dream. Why would anyone *cure* a disease when one could make untold amounts of money from its treatment, research, and, yes, marketing? The sad and ugly truth about cancer (and perhaps especially breast cancer) is that it is lucrative. We are not people, we are piles of money in the eyes of industry.</p>
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