I am boycotting the color pink. In fact, I am boycotting anything that comes close to resembling pink so fuchsia, you're out too. You can also toss in the singer, Pink because I am sure she loves what is going on.
October used to be one of my favorite months. The days shorten and the leaves turns numerous colors but never pink. The weather cools off and there is Halloween to celebrate at month's end.
It used to be when October arrived you saw lots of orange, brown, and black. Now, it's just pink.
Go to a grocery store and your favorite brands of food are colored with pink labels. Turn on a Sunday football game and the players are wearing pink wrist bands, shoes, and chin straps. Heck, even my morning paper was printed on pink paper yesterday.
Why? Because somehow we have allowed breast cancer research to steal an entire month and paint our nation pink. I'm surprised the White House is not painted pink this month or that congress does not require all government buildings to fly a pink, white and blue flag dawned with 50 pink ribbons instead of stars.
Go to any store and try buying a product in its original label instead of pink. Women will look at you as if you are Satan. The female clerk at the checkout stand will remind you when you buy pink labeled items part of your money goes to breast cancer research hoping to shame you into submission.
However, I will not be broken. It's not because I oppose finding a cure to breast cancer. I hope and pray we do. I also hope and pray we find a cure to colon cancer (my mother), rectal cancer (also my mother), prostate cancer (my father), stomach cancer (my grandfather) and all other cancers for that matter.
One of the biggest supporters of a pink October is the National Football League. They devote an entire month trying to sell pink NFL replica jerseys, wrist bands, and anything else they can stamp NFL on because it helps them expand their fan base to women.
You say I am being cynical. Then why hasn't the NFL selected another month, say September, and another color, perhaps blue, to devote to finding a cure to childhood leukemia? I say it is because they know children do not have the money to purchase NFL jerseys, season tickets, or cable television game day packages and could care less about curing a disease.
And am I the only one who notices that if an NFL player tries to wear pink any other month he gets find thousands of dollars for being out of uniform. Why is it okay to wear pink cleats one month but not another?
I will, however, wear yellow. I proudly wear my yellow LIVESTRONG bracelet and support Lance Armstrong's efforts to rid the world of all cancer. July should be the month of yellow. It represents the month in which Armstrong won seven straight Tour de France titles. Yellow is also the color of the leader jersey worn in the Tour de France and it represents the sun which without there ceases to be any life on this planet.
Join me in my pink boycott this month. Wear yellow instead. Watch college football instead of the NFL. Listen to any musical artist except Pink (you may have to do without Pink Floyd too although they were around long before pink Octobers). Remember, none of us are exempt from any of a number of cancers and we should be working toward finding cures to all and not just one.
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