Pink-Washing Breast Cancer One Scam at a Time | Multi Level Mondays

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Go to http://mintmobile.com/casper to get your new phone plan for just $15 a month. Go to http://hellofresh.com/MLM65 and use code MLM65 to get 65% off plus free shipping! Go to http://babbel.com/MLM to get up to 55% off your subscription. Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. Every October, we hear the words “Think Pink” and are reminded about Breast Cancer Awareness month. However, these positive intentions can lead to a lot of scams; charities that have little regard for cancer cures at all. Avoiding them is difficult this time of year, and there are a lot of people that rather not be ‘thinking pink’ at all. Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/3nk3e Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: G. Thomas Craig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Multilevel Mondays is presented by Mint Mobile.
0:04.0	After years of getting ripped off by big wireless providers, there's finally a better option.
0:09.0	Mint Mobile is the affordable premium wireless service that you buy online.
0:13.6	To get your new phone plan for just 15 bucks a month, go to mintmobile.com slash Casper. It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and you know what that means.
0:23.0	Time to think.
0:25.0	It's Breast Cancer Awareness Month and you know what that means?
0:32.0	Time to think pink. Cancer Awareness Month, and you know what that means?
0:32.6	Time to think pink.
0:34.7	About 30% of all cancers that women develop are breast cancer.
0:38.5	Therefore, aside from the classic orange and black combo,
0:41.4	pink has now become one of the colors of October.
0:43.7	The pink ribbons you see everywhere are meant as a reminder to talk to your doctor
0:48.4	about the disease. Naturally, your genetics, breast density, and age all play a factor in your risk, but it certainly can't help
0:55.8	to open up a dialogue and find out what you can do to better understand the risks.
1:01.1	For some, the pink ribbons mean more than awareness.
1:04.0	Jennifer Harvey MD and Mikhail Strahilovitz, Golden State University marketing professor,
1:10.0	wrote in 2009 that the women most affected by breast cancer, older women, often represent home and family.
1:17.0	Therefore, these ribbons symbolize the worthwhile fight against cancer that threatens those values.
1:22.0	Kellen Wolter's chapter board co-chair for the Missouri chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention,
1:28.0	says that she wears her ribbon with pride as it is a symbol of hope and solidarity.
1:32.0	It represents the entire journey of being a breast cancer
1:35.2	survivor, the good, the bad, and the ugly, she explains. Despite the debate around manmagrams, like if they actually do
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