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So proud of my mother for doing her own research after I sent her that meme. A sign she hung in her car window.
Stay woke
Is this true?
Not only is it true, it gets worse. The Susan G Komen For The Cure Foundation has actually successfully sued “competing” charities, because (paraphrasing) their “message or branding was infringing.”
You read that correctly: they took money that people had donated to cure cancer, and hired attorneys with it, to sue ANOTHER group of people trying to find a cure for cancer, who, in turn, had to us their donated money to hire their own legal counsel to defend themselves.
Yeah signal boost because not enough people know about this and seriously FUCK SUSAN G. KOMEN THEY ARE THE ACTUAL WORST
It’s that time of year again, please remember Komen is the actual worst
Komen For The Cure is pretty much awful.
My mother died in 1996 from breast cancer. Most cancer charities are scams, in that people throw fancy parties and get rich off them and very little money goes into research or support for patients. Here are some vetted cancer charities that get good scores on Charity Navigator and pay medical expenses or fund research:
My middle sister Angeline died in 2010 from one of the more rare, highly aggressive forms of breast cancer that none of those bullshit “foundations” do any research on. She never got a single ounce of help from any of those “foundations” that are supposed to help patients who are financially in need, either.
I cannot stand Susan G. Komen and refuse to donate when grocery stores do donation drives at the check out stands every year. If the cashier gives me a surprised look for being so adamant in saying “no”, I tell them exactly why I said it with such conviction… and 9 times out of 10 they have no idea that Komen does what it does and they look shocked because of it, as though they’ve been betrayed somehow by the bullshit Komen image they’ve been spoon fed for most of their lives. The grocery store I usually go to switched over to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation for their October charity drive a few years ago and I was so happy when they did. I donate every time since that switch over happened.
And ugh, October… I absolutely abhor the month of October because of all of the pink shit EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK. The night before Angeline’s funeral I couldn’t sleep, so at 4am I made a self portrait of how I was feeling, and it was titled “Why I Hate Pink”. Because I do. All of that pink shit does nothing but remind me of what I’ve lost and make me bitter all over again at what a scam 99% of it is, and how so many people buy into it hook, line, and sinker because they truly believe they’re doing something good.
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