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...
View ArticleSave 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!
View ArticlePinxploitation: “Cure”d meat
Seriously, sausages for the cure? Is this really the message we want to send?
View ArticlePink 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...
View ArticlePinxploitation 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...
View ArticleIf 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...
View ArticleSay 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...
View ArticleAn 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...
View ArticleUnsexy 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...
View ArticlePinxploitation: 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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