Belated Pink Link!

It's been an uncomfortable week. I haven't sat down to the computer in days because it's extremely painful to sit down. This is because I'm experiencing a stress-related side effect, the details of which I need not share. I'll say only that Preparation-H has been no help.

I missed a Thursday Pink Link. So, Friday's Thursday Pink Link is the following:

We have a tie.

Parin sent me this one.

It epitomizes something. . . Hard to pinpoint what, exactly, irks me about it.

Let's start with this: Wouldn't a ped egg normally be pink? It's a tool mostly used by women. It is stored in the bathroom. It's for maintaining physical beauty. Why wouldn't it be pink?

But, slap a little ribbon on it, and suddenly the pink product becomes a Breast Cancer Awareness product.

I'm annoyed that the color pink has in this way been so totally co-opted. Poor, poor pink. You can't be merely pink anymore.

Sister #1 sent me this one along with the comment, "I'm not sure if all the teams have followed up with this option, but the Chicago Bears seem to have gotten into the jewelry business."

"Business," indeed. Which is why this link earns the award for "Most Obvious and Shameful Attempt to Capitalize on Pink Think."

Note that it's only "a portion" of the proceeds from the profit of bracelet sales will go to "fight against breast cancer." What portion? 5%? 10%? That's making Dick Sporting Goods more money than if they paid for ad space to sell it at a mere 20% off.

And, on a more pragmatic level, Who wants a Chicago Bears-Breast Cancer bracelet? The only person buying this piece of jewelry is the idiot Bears fan who thinks his wife--just because she watches the games with him--would rather have NFL gear on her wrist than, say, diamonds.

Of course, for $17.95, he can't buy her diamonds. So maybe Pink is the cheaper, and therefore better, option. . .