Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

Today a friend sent me a link to someone who has undergone mastectomy and breast cancer, and bravely shows herself topless, as she begs us not to let companies exploit "pink" for their own profit, while supposedly "giving" money for breast cancer research.  Why am I not surprised?  We are a for profit culture, and making a buck is our holy grail.  For all my friends, living and dead, who have struggled with this hideous disease, for my daughter who fights it as we speak, for my granddaughter, who has lived with her mother under threat of death for half of her eleven years, I am disgusted, but not surprised.  The horrible cancer, which affects one in four or one in five women, haunts us all.  We have our losses we grieve, our friends we support, our families terrorized by this cancer.  Don't, please don't exploit this massive suffering.  Give directly to research, not by buying pink sneakers or lipstick.  Don't trivialize the agony of women.