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alarimer

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13. I don't really care.

Reply to HappyMe (Reply #10)

Fri Oct 4, 2013, 01:28 PM

Oct 2013

Read about Komen, how they fucked over Planned Parenthood, how their executives make huge sums of money, while actually giving very little away to research or whatever.

Barbara Ehrenreich, also a cancer survivor, has some very intelligent things to say about all this in Brightsided and numerous articles.

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Watching Thursday Night Football. Now I mean no disrespect, but [View all] Bertha Venation Oct 2013 OP

Bwahahaha! nt ZombieHorde Oct 2013 #1

I missed the gloves and the casts. Pink. Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #2

Why do you hate breast cancer awareness?! bigwillq Oct 2013 #3

hahahaha Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #5

WHO?!?!? WHO DOESN'T WANT TO WEAR THE RIBBON?!?!?!?!!? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2013 #11

You know what's really pipi_k Oct 2013 #4

Pink is infantilizing alarimer Oct 2013 #6

Never cared pipi_k Oct 2013 #8

Do you wear purple with a red hat Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #9

February is heart disease awareness month. HappyMe Oct 2013 #10

I don't really care. alarimer Oct 2013 #13

I stopped giving money to Komen long ago. HappyMe Oct 2013 #14

The place I had lunch today had pink tortilla chips OriginalGeek Oct 2013 #7

Susan G. Komen permanently fucked up this whole pink thing. Iggo Oct 2013 #12

Of course I am all for developing treatments and cures for all types of cancer. Jenoch Oct 2013 #15

Yes, like little pink hand guns antiquie Oct 2013 #19

I would bet that those Lady Smith's with the pink grips Jenoch Oct 2013 #20

Sorry, I appear to have conflated these two stories antiquie Oct 2013 #22

I was not aware of those two guns. Jenoch Oct 2013 #23

Ditto with heart topped 'i'!!! Wait Wut Oct 2013 #16

"Kid's don't make enough money, can't vote, hell...they barely have rights." Bertha Venation Oct 2013 #17

I fear you've got a case of Marykayitis LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #18

I will say this, I'm glad the NFL does not bring in the Brazillion mascot Jenoch Oct 2013 #21

Horrid. Unsee! antiquie Oct 2013 #24