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Pinxploitation

It’s my favorite month: pink! My secret agent and I have been prowling the aisles, looking for the best in household items, tasty treats, and of course feminine products for the cure…er, but now that’s...

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Save the Turkey Ta-Tas

Continuing our tour-de-pink of the meat and dairy aisles, we have this delicious entry: Support breast cancer: eat a breast!

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Pinxploitation: “Cure”d meat

Seriously, sausages for the cure? Is this really the message we want to send?

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Pink Ribbon Salad

Moving from meat and dairy to the produce section, here’s a slew of garden-variety cancer-research-supporting products. Appease your conscience while getting lots of vitamins and fiber! I feel better...

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Pinxploitation Sandwich: Annals of Discomfiting Resonances

Feel like a nice, conscience-appeasing grilled cheese sandwich? Keep in mind that according to the CDC, Black women have a 60% higher death rate due to breast cancer. Yet our local store features this...

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If your sink stinks, think pink!

One of the things that annoys me the most about pinxploitation is the gender stereotypes it invokes. Okay ladies, when you’re scrubbing those pots and pans–represent for breast cancer!   Not to mention...

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Say it with breast cancer

Maybe I have a twisted perspective, but this strikes me as particularly bad taste: I just imagining someone one dying of breast cancer and her family being given these; or, even worse… Three...

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An embarrassment of pinxploitation

Hoo boy! We survived the storm, we’re almost at the end of the month, and there’s so much more pink crap to post! We’re gonna have to speed up… De-lint for the cure! Pink-ribbon toilet paper? Whoever’s...

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Unsexy pinxploitation

Good article in USA today about the way some of the breast cancer awareness promotions grossly sexualize and objectify women. This isn’t awareness–it’s just plain old-fashioned brainless ogling. (Tip...

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Pinxploitation: The grand finale

Here’s a level-headed article by Virginia Postrel, who finds that cancer comes in more shades than pink. Who knew? And here are a few more images to finish out the month. It’s Halloween–and what could...

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