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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:26 PM Oct 2016

U.S. Fighter Jet Painted Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness

Not The Onion!

http://feministing.com/2016/10/18/u-s-fighter-jet-painted-pink-for-breast-cancer-awareness/

Because there’s nothing like fighting breast cancer with the United States military at your side.

Or above you, bombing your home and family.

I wish I could say pinkwashing has reached new heights here (get it), but this is nothing new. Last year, Massachusetts cops introduced pink handcuffs (because where do women get better healthcare than… in prison?). And the year before that, Susan G. Komen teamed up with a fracking company to give us pink drill bits (and oh yeah also carcinogenic toxins).

Filing this one under Shit You Can’t Make Up.

This is as good a time as any to point out that the largest known cluster of male breast cancer was traced back to pollution at Camp LeJeune in North Carolina.

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U.S. Fighter Jet Painted Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness (Original Post) KamaAina Oct 2016 OP

Yikes. 2naSalit Oct 2016 #1

I think their heart is in the right place. Glassunion Oct 2016 #2

Damn Solly Mack Oct 2016 #3

What about the USS Sea Tiger? Cooley Hurd Oct 2016 #4

Allowing a 60 year old Cougar in pink on board? Of course. It is the Navy The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #6

I was intending to display reflexive dislike for Susan G. Komen KamaAina Oct 2016 #10

Susan G. Komen The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #12

The aircraft just came out of restoration. Hangingon Oct 2016 #7

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2naSalit

(86,634 posts)

1. Yikes.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:32 PM

Oct 2016

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)

2. I think their heart is in the right place.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:36 PM

Oct 2016

Solly Mack

(90,767 posts)

3. Damn

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Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:37 PM

Oct 2016

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

4. What about the USS Sea Tiger?

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 02:46 PM

Oct 2016

The Polack MSgt

(13,188 posts)

6. Allowing a 60 year old Cougar in pink on board? Of course. It is the Navy

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 03:05 PM

Oct 2016

I want to point out that this display coincides with the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) - a program that raises money from government employees and service members for charity. Susan G Komen gets a lot of money from service members through the CFC every year.

As do hundreds of other charities nation wide.

I object to the reflexive dislike and lack of knowledge this OP displays towards the US military.

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)

10. I was intending to display reflexive dislike for Susan G. Komen

Reply to The Polack MSgt (Reply #6)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 05:35 PM

Oct 2016

which is run by a bunch of right-wingers. Avon is the way to go.

I do, though, find it ironic that one of the biggest polluters around (not reflexive dislike, but fact) is doing this.

The Polack MSgt

(13,188 posts)

12. Susan G. Komen

Reply to KamaAina (Reply #10)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 09:23 PM

Oct 2016

Is, I believe misguided - I think we'd all agree.

But this plane is a museum piece on a display ship.

The pink paint job is in conjunction with an annual, widely advertised (within govt. service) charity fund drive.

Peace

Hangingon

(3,071 posts)

7. The aircraft just came out of restoration.

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Oct 19, 2016, 03:06 PM

Oct 2016

It is on the Lexington in Corpus Christi. The pink is temporary and will be power washed off when the breast drive is over. Not a big deal.

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