Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

I still that that movie-goers like the experience of leaving their homes and going to have a communal experience, especially in comedies or interactive things where you can get an audience reaction to.

Popular Topics
Oceans, Character, Story, Kindly, Bear, Happy, Ocean, Girl, Songs, Teacher, Snows, Feeling, Stories, Inspire, Achievement, Lives, I Miss You, Success, Today, Lifetime, Integrity, Afternoon, Beach, Air, Humbly, Kind, Technical, Inspirational Life, Goodbye, Excellent, Scholar, Feelings, Fly, Art, Inspiration, Kindness, Quite, Home, Relationships, Pleasures Of Life, Kids, Comfortable, Soccer, Like, Secret, Name, Math, Glory, Involve, Nice
Ravida Din

anyone own a disease? I was also startled at the level of hypocrisy. How can a leading make up company not sign onto the "Campaign for Safe Cosmetics" and at the same time promote itself as leading the fight against breast cancer?

Against, Cancer, Fight, Fighting, Hypocrisy, Sign
Same Author Quotes

When you have giant corporations that give you a one track message of "finding a cure" or of "hope" it can give the public a false sense that someone is looking after their health interest and some cases even managing their health.

Giants, Give, Giving, Health, Hope, Track

Some people don't want to know that very little progress has been made. It is in the same way that companies are selling their products (i. e. the billion dollar cosmetic industry), they can package the message of femininity and normalization around this disease.

Know, Normalization, People, Products, Progress, Want

There's a long history of subsidized philanthropy - particularly in the USA - and again the public has come to expect corporations to play a role in their social welfare. It's become easy for some companies to profit from citizen goodwill and volunteerism.

Play, Usa, Long, Easy, History

The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.

Campaign, Campaigns, Cancer, Cause, Depoliticize, Disease

Those of us who have gone through breast cancer treatment will say "yes". . we absolutely need to focus on prevention. I never want my daughter to go through what I have gone through. . . never.

Breast, Cancer, Daughter, Focus, Yes
Similar Quotes