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StephN · 08-13-2006, 09:06 AM

Thanks for pointing this out, MaryAnne.
I sure hope some of the others here take a look at that thread. Brings out a range of emotions.

A few quick thoughts.
If they wanted to do this for "awareness" some changes needed to be made to Barbie. If they want to call her a "Breast Cancer Barbie" they need to GIVE her breast cancer IMHO. If they want her to be a SURVIVOR and looking this way, they should say that is what this doll is.

Maybe they think that this will make the BC "words" more familiar to little girls who have a greater and greater chance of getting the disease. But by glamorizing the disease with THIS representation, I think the WRONG MESSAGE is being sent.

As for profit motive. Exactly - the maker WILL make money and so will the retailers. How many of these cookie cutter dolls are being made and sold through countless retailers?? And they only want to donate $250,000???
I am sure they have 50,000 outlets, not mention online sales. Komen MIGHT be getting ONE dollar for every doll sold.

Can someone else make sense of this for me?? Think I will get one and rip her hair out and send it to the Komen headquaters ...

08-13-2006, 09:06 AM	#2
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	What irony Thanks for pointing this out, MaryAnne. I sure hope some of the others here take a look at that thread. Brings out a range of emotions. A few quick thoughts. If they wanted to do this for "awareness" some changes needed to be made to Barbie. If they want to call her a "Breast Cancer Barbie" they need to GIVE her breast cancer IMHO. If they want her to be a SURVIVOR and looking this way, they should say that is what this doll is. Maybe they think that this will make the BC "words" more familiar to little girls who have a greater and greater chance of getting the disease. But by glamorizing the disease with THIS representation, I think the WRONG MESSAGE is being sent. As for profit motive. Exactly - the maker WILL make money and so will the retailers. How many of these cookie cutter dolls are being made and sold through countless retailers?? And they only want to donate $250,000??? I am sure they have 50,000 outlets, not mention online sales. Komen MIGHT be getting ONE dollar for every doll sold. Can someone else make sense of this for me?? Think I will get one and rip her hair out and send it to the Komen headquaters ... __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.