Pinkwashing Turns on Itself with Breast Cancer Awareness Gun

by Anne Landman — November 3, 2009 - 1:54pm
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Smith & Wesson Breast Cancer Awareness PistolOctober was Breast Cancer Awareness month, and the group Breast Cancer Action seized on the opportunity to promote its Think Before you Pink campaign to raise awareness of how companies are increasingly exploiting breast cancer as a marketing device to sell products -- some of which are actually harmful to women's health. Pink ribbon campaigns are offering up some bizarre, albeit benign products like a breast cancer awareness toaster and a breast cancer awareness floating Beer Pong table. But the most bizarre item yet to have a pink ribbon slapped on it must be Smith & Wesson's Pink Breast Cancer Awareness 9 mm Pistol, promoted by a woman named Julie Goloski, Smith and Wesson's Consumer Program Manager and a sharpshooter herself. Goloski is promoting S&W's breast cancer awareness pistol on her Facebook page, saying "October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Breast Cancer Awareness M&P’s are shipping to dealers. I am thrilled to have my name associated with such a worthy cause and one of my favorite firearms." According to a 2008 report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, firearms are the second most common cause of violent deaths of women, accounting for 29.2% of all violent deaths among females in the U.S. in 2008.

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Submitted by Anne Landman on November 5, 2009 - 7:19pm.

The piece did not state that Julie Goloski profits personally from the sale of the breast cancer awareness gun.

Anne Landman

Your argument is nothing

Submitted by No you missed the point (not verified) on November 4, 2009 - 6:32pm.

Your argument is nothing more than a fallacy. You cannot compare a gun to a drug. That is comparing apples to zebras. Guns do not kill people, people kill people. Guns are merely a tool. Would you be offended if Buck made a pink knife, or if Ford made a pink car. You could say, "Nothing kills more people than cars." Yet I bet we wont see you boycotting Mary Kay for making a pink Cadillac.

Anyways, people make the conscious decision to smoke, and the cats been long out the bag that it may cause health problems.

The "Impulse" model...

Submitted by Anne Landman on November 4, 2009 - 10:29pm.

They're way ahead of you. Here's a [http://www.shopgradys.com/servlet/-strse-4282/BUCK-KNIVES-0292PNS***-IMPULSE/Detail Breast Cancer Awareness Pink Buck knife!]

If used for slashing others, then yes, I am offended.

Anne Landman

Offended by whom?

Submitted by Web (not verified) on November 5, 2009 - 9:19am.

Would you be offended by Buck, or by the bad guy who did the slashing (it was the forward motion that he provided that caused the blade to cut) ?

What it he used a stapler?

http://www.amazon.com/PaperPro-Pink-Ribbon-Compact-Stapler/dp/B001TDKOPI

Would the $1 Paper Pro donated on the purchase of the stapler offend you?

Excuse me?

Submitted by Sailorcurt (not verified) on November 5, 2009 - 7:12am.

You're only offended by a knife it's "used for slashing other" but guns offend you just by existing?

Your stance on knives indicates that you are CAPABLE of rational thought, you just choose not to employ it in the case of the object of your bigotry.

Hmmm.

I wonder if any of Julie Golob's guns have ever been used to murder a woman?

And you're "offended" by them for what reason again???

What about kitchen knives or vehicles?

Submitted by ChrisM (not verified) on November 4, 2009 - 6:01pm.

So, would you have a problem with Breast Cancer Awareness kitchen knives, because they can be used in crime, too? What about a Breast Cancer Awareness car? Do you know how many people die in vehicle collisions?

Blame the person using the object. Don't blame inanimate objects for the crimes committed.

I'm pretty sure Julie Goloski's "evil" guns have never committed any crimes.

You make me sick

Submitted by Disgusted by your blaphemous article (not verified) on November 4, 2009 - 5:22pm.

According to (http://www.vpc.org/studies/wmmw2008.pdf) in 2006, 1,836 women were victims murdered by males in a single victim setting. 1.29 of 100,000 women were killed by an intimate male or husband. And only 54% were killed with a firearm.

Have you looked up any other common causes of women death?
>13 in 100,000 die from childbirth
1 in 40 die from breast cancer! or 2500 in 100,000!!!!

You have 10 times more of a chance of dying during childbirth than being murdered with a firearm. And a whole 1937 times more of a chance of dying from breast cancer than being murdered with a firearm.

Get your facts straight and go after guns. I wish I could find the number of women that use firearms in self defense and saved their lives. Or probably even greater would be the number of men using firearms to save their girlfriend, wife, etc.

Remember one thing. If guns were illegal, the only people that would have them would be cops, and criminals. Criminals will always be able to get guns. Then if you happen to be in a bank with a hostage situation, you're gonna wish there was a normal citizen with a gun when it takes on US average 22 minutes for cops to arrive.

Statements like your makes me sick.

"Only" 54 percent were killed with a firearm?

Submitted by Anne Landman on November 4, 2009 - 10:25pm.

Is that not enough for you? Are you serious?

Anne Landman

actually to the contrary

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on November 4, 2009 - 4:35pm.

actually to the contrary firearms do not make the list of CDC top ten things that kill women. firearms have probably saved more women's lives then you realize.

http://www.cdc.gov/Women/lcod.htm

I commend S&W for donating to breast cancer and providing firearms that have saved countless lives.

No, YOU missed the point

Submitted by Hazcat (not verified) on November 4, 2009 - 4:33pm.

In your world a woman beaten and raped or murdered is morally superior to a woman that chose to defend herself with a gun. That is a very scary world!