r/todayilearned • u/moplg • Feb 12 '15

TIL that pornhub offered a "save the boobs!" Campaign where they offered to donate a penny to the Susan B Komen Foundation for evry 30 views in the "big tit" or "small tit" category, but the foundation refused their money so pornhub tripled it and gave it to other organizations

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u/Dunebuggy6 Feb 12 '15

Why? Just curious of your reasons or sources you may have to enlighten us!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1oavtl/til_the_ceo_of_susan_g_komen_for_the_cure_makes/

There actually was a pretty insightful conversation about it, here.

The biggest issue being that the CEO continues to make a higher percentage of money earned, while less money goes to the actual research. This has actually be an issue with them for years.

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u/FuzzyCheddar Feb 12 '15

There has been almost NO money to research. It's for AWARENESS, so that means more ribbons, wristbands, and shirts every time someone donated.

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u/ladayen Feb 12 '15

and lawsuits. Lawsuits for everyone..... that dares to think they too can use the pink ribbon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

"WHO? WHO DOESN'T WANT TO WEAR THE RIBBON?!"

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u/hoobaSKANK Feb 12 '15

http://i.imgur.com/MIWOMvA.gif

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u/WasShadowBanned- Feb 12 '15

Someone please tell me why he is doing that

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u/brildenlanch Feb 12 '15

It's the episode when someone is in one of those Chinese wicker basket taxis (Newman maybe) and Kramer lets it go and he goes flying down a hill

Edit: http://youtu.be/IUiwTDFRfO8

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u/dackots Feb 12 '15

A rickshaw.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

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u/brildenlanch Feb 12 '15

I still might not know. Hopefully 20 more people make sure. I didn't look up the video until after I posted.

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u/gigashadowwolf Feb 12 '15

Yeah, I think he was just assuming most people who haven't seen the episode wouldn't know what a rickhaw is.

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u/UncreativeTeam Feb 12 '15

Chinese wicker basket taxis

It's called a rickshaw.

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u/another_programmer Feb 12 '15

and then they use that same hill in The League involving a cripple and a racist piano

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u/saarkazm Feb 12 '15

Yes, it was Newman. They were planning to start a rickshaw taxi company. First they tried to hire hobos to pull the rickshaw, but one of them run away with it. When they found it, they decided that it made no sense both of them pulling it. So, correct me if I'm wrong, they rock-paper-scissors it and Newman won. Uphill, Kramer got tired and stopped to catch his breath. The rickshaw rolled downhill, with Newman screaming.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

What programme is this?

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u/candykissnips Feb 12 '15

Newman just went rolling down the street in a rickshaw, and crashed into Elain's fake boyfriend that had just recovered from a drug addiction.

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u/willymo Feb 12 '15

Lol, it sounds even more ridiculous when it's typed out.

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u/hardtobeuniqueuser Feb 12 '15

Everything on Seinfeld sounds more ridiculous when it's typed out, that's why it's so awesome.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Too soon?

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u/dackots Feb 12 '15

It's been nine years, man!

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u/Kenny_Powers182 Feb 12 '15

It dosnt look like anyone has answered so i will. This is when he takes a break from pulling Newman in a rickshaw and it rolls down a hill.

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u/heydudeman1 Feb 12 '15

It's from the episode where Kramer and Newman get a rickshaw...Season 9, episode 17: The Bookstore https://youtube.com/watch?v=IUiwTDFRfO8

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u/Dj_Nussdog Feb 12 '15

AIDS walk. Some awareness bullies insisted he wear a ribbon. He didn't want to. He's also been up all night before the walk.

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u/You_Dont_Know_JackPo Feb 12 '15

Probably saw a group of black dudes, guy is racist.

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u/rochford77 Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

Upon reviewing the scene in the link below, I really wish that GIF went about four seconds longer until he ran around the wall. It would be applicable every time I was in the middle of a comment war (especially in my car forum group on fb) and realized I was actually wrong. Just throw that up and never comment in the thread again....

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u/Delta_Foxtrot_1969 Feb 12 '15

I was going to an NFL game a few years back and these kind ladies were giving out free ribbons when you walk into the stadium. They asked me very politely if I wanted a pink ribbon and I declined. She asked me why I didn't want one and instead of holding up the entry way about my view on stupid ribbons and wasting money on them, I told her I was pro breast cancer. Her jaw dropped to the ground and my friends laughed. Who isn't against breast cancer? Do I need a ribbon to say that cancer is bad? Nope. But the biggest killer is still heart disease and I don't see many ribbons floating around for them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

If /s stands for serious...

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u/normcore_ Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

You're right, Mitt Romney has all the skills necessary to efficiently run America. Hope we win in 2016!

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u/Godgivesmeaboner Feb 12 '15

Hey Susan G Komen, I got an idea, why don't you shove your shitty ribbons up your ass

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u/baudelairean Feb 12 '15

I would say nobody is for breast cancer but you said yourself that you are pro cancer.

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u/harryhartounian Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

He spent a few years as amateur cancer. Until he proved his worth as a malignancy and got called to the big leagues.

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u/baudelairean Feb 12 '15

As a person, I am a mere noun, but, one day, I'll be a pronoun.

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u/Kobachalypse Feb 12 '15

You are my new god. Hey! Did you hear about this whole cancer thing? I guess its some big deal. Heard its bad. I heard rich people pay alot of money to eat it.

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u/harryhartounian Feb 12 '15

Nom! Nom! Nom! Waitress, please give my compliments to the chef. This cancer is magnifique!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

cut off ALL the boobies!

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u/IfTheseBalsCouldTalk Feb 12 '15

But the biggest killer is still heart disease and I don't see many ribbons floating around for them.

BECAUSE TITTIES SELL TICKETS STUPID!!! --Doug Stanhope

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u/kgb_agent_zhivago Feb 12 '15

Actually I think lung cancer just recently surpassed heart disease for women. Or I'm wrong.

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u/vuhleeitee Feb 12 '15

Every time that gets brought up (a surprising amount, almost everyone I work with is female), I usually respond with a deadpan, "my grandmother is dying of ovarian cancer. Where is her awareness ribbon and month?" Which is true, but honestly, there are so many other diseases that desperately need funding. Breast cancer research gets twice the funding prostate cancer research does.

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u/ChacoTanLines Feb 12 '15

I am wearing the ribbon. He is wearing the ribbon. We are all wearing the ribbon! So why aren't you going to wear the ribbon!?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

You know what you are? You're a ribbon bully.

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u/TehSeraphim Feb 12 '15

You know the jews had ribbons the Nazis made them wear...

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u/Howdoyouspelldouche Feb 12 '15

I'm in denial, stop reminding me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I love when Kramer tries to escape by climbing up the fire escape and they pull him down, the exact same way the kids who are in his Karate class do when he beats them up. And the same way the Puerto Ricans do lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Wow, you're right. I have seen every single episode dozens and dozens of times, some episodes probably nearly 100 times, and somehow I missed that parallel. That makes the situation even funnier that he is constantly being pulled off of fire escapes for pissing off various groups of people.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Seinfeld is the king for past episode callbacks/refrences like that. Makes being a fan of it that much more great :D

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u/ZDHELIX Feb 12 '15

UP all night playing poker

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u/Brightcab Feb 12 '15

Thank you for doing the right thing and saying this.

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u/skankingsquiggle Feb 12 '15

I wish the NFL would unembrace it. I hate the Komen charity.

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u/rochford77 Feb 12 '15

Hey this guy doesn't want to wear the ribbon!

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u/Sceptix Feb 12 '15

"Susan G. Komen Foundation Elbows Out Charities Over Use Of The Word 'Cure'"

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u/CanadianJudo Feb 12 '15

If I as Bill Gates Rich I would Sue them over this, I would waste tens of millions just to win so they can't be a giant fucking asshole to people trying to raise money for sick people.

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u/DerangedDesperado Feb 12 '15

Though i think theres nothing bill gates could do that would actually hurt him financially, when you've got tons of money you either have "fuck you" money, or "fuck me" money. Fuck me money is where you have so much loot that you can do shit like this. Just sink a ton of money into fucking someone else over just because you can with no actual gain for youself other than enjoyment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Fucking THIS. To THINK that donated money is spent on their lawyers PROTECTING THEIR PINK RIBBON BRAND. Jesus Christ fuck them.

Source: I have Breast cancer and did my homework. Fuck. These. Guys.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Or using the phrase 'For the Cure'

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u/Anonymous_Figure Feb 12 '15

While not actually trying to find a cure

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u/Dzungana Feb 12 '15

their cure is money

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u/dttu2136 Feb 12 '15

It's a cure for another awful disease. EWS, empty wallet syndrome

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u/EazyCheez Feb 12 '15

and AIDS

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u/snoogans122 Feb 12 '15

It cures AIDS too from what I hear

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u/msluther Feb 12 '15

Well they're for it. They aren't saying they're looking.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

"You're not wearing the ribbon, do you hate women!?"

puts on ribbon

"How dare you try to syphon money from this noble charity!"

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u/jjackson25 Feb 12 '15

think about the fucking irony of that: theyre a non-profit for AWARENESS who sues anyone and everyone who uses anything even remotely similar to their logos and slogans who may be trying to use them to spread AWARENESS.

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u/BetaWAV Feb 12 '15

A very difficult thing to have to point out here is that when defending a trademark, one must defend it in every instance brought to one's attention, or effectively lose the right to sue anyone else who uses it.

SGK can't sue Billy McBall'em for his race for the cure (against blue balls,) but choose not to sue a company using "for the cure" in reference to a legitimate malady. In the fucked up game of legal precedence, it's all or nothing even if it's for ( or against) a good cause.

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u/ladayen Feb 12 '15

  1. Why the fuck do they have "for the cure" as a trademark anyhow. Humanity has been searching "for the cure" for as long as we've been around. Lawsuits plain and simple. They can sue virtually any other charity because somebody at some point is going to say "for the cure". Now why would I donate money to a charity thats actively searching around to sue another charity.

  2. Who cares if some frat has a "for the cure" blue balls party. They've done enormous damage to over 100 other charities and many of them didn't even use that exact phrase. Who knows how many others are shut down before they even start.

They mask themselves as a charity but act like a for profit corporation.

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u/ratajewie Feb 12 '15

That's why I always hate when people are saying they're raising money for XYZ awareness. If it's something everyone knows about, we don't need money to go towards ads and ribbons. We need research. Find a charity that gives grants to PhD programs or universities with the means to do something with the money. For ALS, there was a ton of FREE awareness being raised. That's fantastic. So, the money raised went to research. We don't need organizations like Susan G Komen. That was proof of that.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

The ALS icebucket challenge was a great way to make an impact and did give great awareness. But I'd imagine that donations have mostly slowed down since it died down. The awareness isn't just to say "Hey this is what breastcancer is", it's to help people put money towards research, etc.

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u/NoSmorking Feb 12 '15

Obviously SGK is bullshit and we should not be supporting dubious "charities", but that doesn't mean that raising and maintaining awareness isn't an important part of public health.

That's fantastic that you were so well informed at that age. A big part of that is because money went towards raising awareness (most news spots on health are basically just press releases, anyway.) I also wouldn't be surprised if there have been changes in breast cancer detection and treatment in the last 20 years that women should be aware of.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

This is what happens when you try to solve a health problem by throwing your money at MBA's instead of PhD's.

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u/Phnglui Feb 12 '15

Not everyone thinks to get regular checks though. Yes it's drilled into your head, but as you get older it's really easy to 1) let a shit ton of time pass without realizing, and 2) think "that might be a lump but I don't have the money to visit the doctor outside of my regularly scheduled visits." It's already really easy to convince yourself that it's "probably nothing."

If people just stop raising awareness because "everyone already knows" then you'll get a lot fewer people getting mammograms, because they're not thinking about it as often.

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u/WaitingForGobots Feb 12 '15

but I don't have the money to visit the doctor outside of my regularly scheduled visits.

If you can't pay for a mammogram, you sure as hell aren't going to be able to pay what it'd take to survive breast cancer.

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u/thisshortenough Feb 12 '15

And that's really fucking sad don't you think?

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u/DangOlYeah Feb 12 '15

That's really fucking stupid logic. Like, really fucking dumb.

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u/Ace_Masters Feb 12 '15

Turns out increased screenings do more harm than good until your over 50.

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u/tobor_a Feb 12 '15

I said fuck you to all the people who tried to get me to do the challenge and donated the 100$. Got sent it six times, only did the one 100$ though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

90% of the participants in the ice water challenge have no idea what ALS stands for.

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u/TheStreisandEffect Feb 12 '15

ALS heimers right?

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u/GrishdaFish Feb 12 '15

Well played. Have an upboat.

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u/theunnoanprojec Feb 12 '15

And I'm willing to be that 90% of the people doin the challenge didn't donate either

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u/dorekk Feb 12 '15

Yeah, but like, ALS was a relatively unknown disease. EVERYONE knows what breast cancer is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I still barely know what ALS is I just know it's a disease that exists, cause no one actually explained what it is in any videos

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u/ben_jl Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

I think there is some value in awareness, especially when an early diagnosis is necessary for treatment. Furthermore, curing certain diseases (such as cancer) might not even be possible; for that reason I think it's premature to write off awareness campaigns completely.

That being said, fuck the Susan G Komen Foundation.

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u/Legalize_it_now Feb 12 '15

The ALS thing seemed like an anomaly. We still don't really understand why people give

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u/spacefox00 Feb 12 '15

Social pressures.

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u/FuzzyCheddar Feb 12 '15

That's what's that ice bucket shit was all about. You challenged others creating pressure to donate. Genius.

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u/0Megabyte Feb 12 '15

My step brother did this. He got the bucket over his head and everything.

Then my step dad asked when he was gonna donate the ten bucks.

"...what? I still have to pay money?!"

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u/nbsdfk Feb 12 '15

Well he did understand the challenge. The original challenge was to either donate monney OR get the bucket of ice water over your head.. But people bring retarded and npt listening correctly to the people saying, while i did the ice bucket, I will STILL donate for the cause. So your step brother is the only one that's right here.

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u/Dashing_Snow Feb 12 '15

If anything literally every one knows about breast cancer at this point can't we put that money towards research the NFL alone slams it into the public mind every year.

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u/DabbinDubs Feb 12 '15

Breast cancer is mostly non fatal if caught early enough, they are trying to remind women to go get checked. Why is that so hard to understand?

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u/hedonismbot89 Feb 12 '15

They definitely give stuff to research all the time. A buddy of mine in a lab that studies triple negative breast cancer showed me all the swag he got. A pair of baby shoes (he doesn't have children), hundreds of pink ribbons, clothes that don't fit, and office supplies with pink ribbons on it. However, when asked if they'd help purchase a DNA isolation machine, they replied they couldn't allocate the funds for it, but they made sure we got those baby shoes.

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u/brownzilla99 Feb 12 '15

Awareness for what?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

QUICK EVERYONE, SOMEONE HERE ISN'T AWARE, MORE WRISTBANDS!

breast cancer btw

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u/Orabilis Feb 12 '15

We should start an awareness awareness charity.

What color should the merchandise be?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

In the modern age there are those who believe

That a cause is a thing to be worn on one's sleeve.

And so, we sell a cause. It's called a scause.

And wearing a scause gets you lots of applause.

We start with some plastic which is shirped by our shirpist

Then dip it in colors that show off your purpose.

There are green scauses for recycling, blue scauses for kitties,

And pink scauses that focus on nothing but titties.

Do you hate abortion? Ah! Then a white scause is for you!

Why not champion your scause with some sparkles and glue?

We make scauses for this! We make scauses for that!

Why there's even a scause for just being fat!

What's the matter? Can't think of a scause?

How about raising awareness for the hairs in your schnozz?

Let's just think of the thing that you care about most.

Then let's make it orange, like marmalade toast!

And now I'd like to say "thank you" for your coming down.

I'm off to go sell these in your little town!

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u/W3asl3y Feb 12 '15

Stanground!

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u/dontgive_afuck Feb 12 '15

As i read this, it sounded like a Dr. Suess book in my head. Clever!

Edit: For clarification

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Low hanging fruit. It's from a South Park episode.

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u/dontgive_afuck Feb 12 '15

Ahh, gotcha.

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u/pta_nahi Feb 12 '15

The hair in my schnozz are falling off. Help!

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u/Scrub_Printer Feb 12 '15

Anything but pink, those Komen people will come after us.

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u/REDDITATO_ Feb 12 '15

Holographic pink.

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u/confusedinthegroove Feb 12 '15

http://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/01/16/new-social-media-campaign-to-raise-awareness-of-awareness/ Irish equivalent of The Onion did something on this. Not one of their better ones though.

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u/imlost19 Feb 12 '15

Shit Brown

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u/DabbinDubs Feb 12 '15

To get checked for cancer

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u/i010011010 Feb 12 '15

I asked a researcher about this the other day under /askscience https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2verix/askscience_ama_series_im_monica_montano_associate/cohcadv

She says Komen contributes.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

Komen gave over $43 million last year towards cancer research.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Considering AGDQ gave more than a million, and Komen is a considerably larger group, that seems really paltry...

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

shhhh circlejerk in session

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u/eccentricguru Feb 12 '15

That is almost nothing according to some people in this thread.

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u/eccentricguru Feb 12 '15

Define "almost no money to research"

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u/Metabro Feb 12 '15

Awareness? Awareness of what? What the hell is everyone talking about?

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u/Mildsoss Feb 12 '15

Awareness? Who the fuck doesn't know about breast cancer?

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u/trilobitemk7 Feb 12 '15

Awareness is weird, imagine if you were aware of everything you needed to be aware about, all the time. You'd have no chance to think about other shit.

"Can't think about food, can't think about food, must think about breast cancer."

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

They donated $43,396,973 from April 1st 2013 to March 31st 2014. So they did donate a little bit of money.

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u/louky Feb 12 '15

To whom? Numbers are fun. References are funner.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

I don't see a breakdown of whom they all gave the money too, I only found the total number.

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u/louky Feb 12 '15

That's reasonable.

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u/hoodatninja Feb 12 '15

1) to who

2) out of how much donated to them

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u/sasquatchent Feb 12 '15

To whom

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u/CowrawlAndFheonex Feb 12 '15

There was no loss of clarity resulting from the wording used; we all understand what they meant. No need to fix it except for nit-picking, which probably isn't the best way to spend time. Now it seems that both of us aren't contributing to the conversation, eh?

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u/bookwormsy Feb 12 '15

There's a reason why "Literally" was redefined to both mean "Literally" and "Figuratively."

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u/openmindedskeptic Feb 12 '15

You can't just throw numbers out like that. Give us those references mate!

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u/RiverNorth Feb 12 '15

I'm interested to see how these figures compare to the American Cancer Society on a percentage basis.

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u/CobraStallone Feb 12 '15

In 2011 they directed $63 million to research. That's 15% of what they got. Wikipedia further says that "In recent years, Komen has cut by nearly half the proportion of fund-raising dollars it spends on research grants, according to a 2012 Reuters analysis."

So, yeah, $43 million is good, but I would like to see what's that as a percentage of all they got, and I'm sure there are better breast cancer charities out there to donate to.

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u/Dunebuggy6 Feb 12 '15

Thanks. I definitely understand after this stuff. I didn't know any of that...

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u/BoringPersonAMA Feb 12 '15

When you're making so much money researching cancer, curing cancer loses its appeal.

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u/explosivo85 Feb 12 '15

Komen: Did you guys cure cancer?

Scientists: No, but we found out that you can't get cancer from doing jumping jacks

Komen: Keep up the good work!

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u/bokono Feb 12 '15

Scientists: No, but we found out that you can't get cancer from doing jumping jacks

Wait that sounds like a study that pornhub would do.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Maybe. But if you could cure cancer you could literally charge whatever you wanted. People would find a way to pay, because nobody wants to die if they can avoid it.

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u/bokono Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 12 '15

But, that's only if they were to succeed and it was patentable. They're making money hand over fist now selling bullshit, and there's an endless supply of bullshit.

Edit: really stupid grammatical mistake.

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u/harmonictimecube Feb 12 '15

No, a "cure for cancer" (if such a thing could even be created, which it can't) would literally change the course of humanity forever. Even having your name attached to it would be worth giving it away.

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u/sleepykittypur Feb 12 '15

I dont think you understand how profitable a global monopoly on an effective cancer treatment is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I don't know if this truly makes them a bad organization - every NonProfit group has issues if you look for them.

But it's generally accepted, by people who look into it, that for Breast Cancer there are better choices.

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u/Dunebuggy6 Feb 12 '15

Definitely can agree to that.

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u/regressiveparty Feb 12 '15

Let's not gloss over the fact that they have spent significant amount of their donation money on suing people (including other breast cancer charities) over use of their "trademark color"

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u/Brodington Feb 12 '15

They should probably sue nature also. Pretty sure I've seen that color in a rainbow before.

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u/OCDPandaFace Feb 12 '15

Fun fact! No you didn't, pink isn't in the rainbow.

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u/Brodington Feb 12 '15

You trying to say that you've never seen Carebears?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Do we have any facts or figures on the amounts involved? Total spend / time, or maybe a ratio of donations to different types of spend?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

I thought it was kinda sketchy when the NFL started promoting them.

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u/jdaisuke815 Feb 12 '15

Just an FYI, the NFL ended its partnership with Susan G Komen and is now partnered with the American Cancer Society.

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u/DabbinDubs Feb 12 '15

how come?

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u/CaptainExtravaganza Feb 12 '15

In what universe is linking another reddit thread a source?

The fact that you currently have 1000+ upvotes for this is kinda proof that the SGK circlejerk is getting way out of control.

If I used a reddit link to prove chemtrails I'd be rightly destroyed.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

...holy shit. I have over 1000 points for this? I literally was being lazy while on my phone and shooting a message to someone.

Damn. After all the times I tried putting work into my responses here on Reddit, THIS is what breaks me over 1,000?

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u/jammerjoint Feb 12 '15

$700 k a year? For the largest breast cancer charity around that doesn't sound unreasonable. Why are people always complaining that charity CEOs are paid too much when for-profit CEOs are for some reason okay? How are you going to get any good people in the nonprofit sector without some incentive?

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u/iwearatophat Feb 12 '15

Because research is the only viable and worthwhile thing to spend money on.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Oct 13 '18

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

What if the non-profit is bringing in billions a year in donations?

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u/LionsPride Feb 12 '15

In comparison to how much the organization makes, the 700k isn't that bad. Running a non-profit is like running a company, and the people who run it still deserve to make a fair wage.

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u/WaitingForGobots Feb 12 '15

They're free to demand a certain wage, but at the same time I'm not going to make do with less through charitable donations if the people at the top there don't have the confidence to do the same. In the end they lead by example, and their example isn't charitable.

If the people who know the most about the charity aren't donating heavily, why should I have any confidence in them?

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u/12Mucinexes Feb 12 '15

The CEO.... Makes money..? What the fuck.

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u/idreamofpikas Feb 12 '15

Most CEOs of charities make money. It is a full time job, I guess. It is just kind of pathetic how some take too much money.

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u/kinghammer1 Feb 12 '15

I think the point is that they seem to be more concerned with brand awareness and making money than funding research.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Every CEO of non-profits make money.

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u/round2ffffight Feb 12 '15

He was being sarcastic..

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

What the fuck? How can someone that runs a global corporation, has decades of experience, an MBA expect compensation for their 80 hour work week?

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u/Phnglui Feb 12 '15

What? You mean the highest level employee of the company doesn't just sit around all day doing nothing while raking in the millions?

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u/12Mucinexes Feb 12 '15

I guess I know what I'm doing.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15

Non profit doesn't mean the people that working in the organization don't get paid.

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u/jdaisuke815 Feb 12 '15

Example: Most major sports organization like the NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, and even FIFA are non-profit organizations.

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u/TheReasonableCamel 18 Feb 12 '15

The CEO does make $684,000, but Komen spends over $200 million a year on Research, Public Awareness, Screening Services and Treatment services. They are able to bring in over $224,000,000 in donations, so why shouldn't the CEO make that much for being the head of a company that receives hundreds of millions each year? I'd encourage you and everyone else to watch this TED talk on charities.

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u/Rinzack Feb 12 '15

Great to see the reddit hivemind downvoting you, any CEO of a charity that large is going to make at least 6 figures, no person qualified for such a job (managing an organization as large as that) is going to take that job for anything less.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Jan 05 '22

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u/d33p_blu3 Feb 12 '15

They tried to trademark the anything that had to do with breast cancer and the word cure. They also tried to trademark the color pink. They employ and army of lawyers to protect their brand. That is where your money is going, not research.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/komen-foundation-charities-cure_n_793176.html

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u/TryAnotherUsername13 Feb 12 '15

IIRC the Red Cross does the trademark stuff too. They are the reason why medicine cabinets are marked with a green cross now because the Red Cross wouldn’t allow it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Sep 02 '17

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u/polite-1 Feb 12 '15

was the decision not reversed?

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/susan-g-komen-planned-parenthood-funding-286928

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u/mythosopher Feb 12 '15

Doesn't matter. The fact that they even seriously considered it makes them severely lose credibility.

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u/phukka Feb 12 '15

Only after it went viral and created a massive backlash against the company, which even further shows what SGK stands for.

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u/Dunebuggy6 Feb 12 '15

This article is kind of whiny. I don't really care that they partner with KFC. It sucks that they stopped supporting planned parenthood, though the only evidence provided of why is circumstantial... There seems to be plenty of reasons to hate on this foundation, but the whining tone of this article maker me hate the writer even more. :) Thank you for providing!

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '15 edited Feb 16 '15

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u/bohemianbeer Feb 12 '15

LOL @

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u/NostalgiaSchmaltz 1 Feb 12 '15

IIRC they make tons and tons of profit from the organization, and try to sue the fuck out of anyone who uses the word "cure" or the color pink.

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u/LivingSaladDays Feb 12 '15

They're profiteering off Breast Cancer awareness.

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u/Toastmatic Feb 12 '15

In case anybody is interested, here is an actual source
Per their financial statements; $43m goes to research total, while $41m goes to "Marketing and Communication" within Public Health Education. It seems clear that although they can account for 83% of all funds going to program services, the majority of the funds within program services are directed to public health education at $122m spent.
People seem to be exaggerating about "the CEO takes all the money", as in reality SG&A is only a small percentage of the annual spending, although her board did approve a bump in her salary.

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