WOW! There is so much in this to criticize. This is why I started this blog. Havurah takes liberties here not only with what Mary Kay is and isn't, but with her own estimation of herself. Let's get started
Whether or not Mary Kay Ash's son "leveraged the company into massive debt to take it private" and whatever his intentions in doing so, are all debatable. What is absolutely absurd is Pink Truth's accusation that he
"morphed it into some sort of religious answer to the mystery of life using makeup as the means to salvation" Exaggerate much Pink Truth?
"including end retail customers…if there are any"
When will Pink Truth give up this wishful hope that there are not any end retail customers of Mary Kay. Wake up Pink Truth. There ARE people that buy Mary Kay. There are a lot of them. There would not be any Mary Kay Cosmetics anymore if there weren't. The "Titanic", as you call it, would have sunk long ago.
That Mary Kay Inc is just a factory, we agree. Whether they would go on producing their products without the sales side is debatable and utterly ridiculous for Pink Truth to speculate about.
"So, our objection is strictly to the marketing plan of the signature product."
Possibly the only part of this post that is appropriate and not insane.
((warning, insanity starts again))
I will post the whole paragraph here because of how ridiculous (and yet oft repeated) it is:
"Simply speaking, if the MKC marketing method was really such a success, why is there any other business method at all? How do bricks and mortar retailers succeed? Why would anyone work in any other way if the Christian way of MKC and its army pink ladies is the way to a six figure income and a life of Christian wealth?
Is there a secret that no one else except the chosen few know? If Jesus is the path to all of our salvation, why is he co-opted by this one company? Can’t all companies have Jesus save us and lead us to the enriching of all lives?"
I am sure that there are some directors/recruits/etc. that make claims like this. But really? Anyone that thinks that Jesus and companies would co-opt to bring salvation is going to get burned. If not by some Pink Lady, by someone else. Nothing that I have EVER heard from Mary Kay (actual Mary Kay people, not Pink Truth's version of Mary Kay people) indicates that Mary Kay considers itself better than brick and mortar retailers, much less some sort of path to salvation.
This article goes on and on with nonsense being spewed out. Sort of an auto summary of all of Pink Truth's "Truth-isms" that are nowhere near true. "Oversaturation" "expensive but middle of the road" "no end user"... yada yada, blah blah blah...
Then it gets absolutely horrific.
First there is this gem
Women who need income have to work at a real job. That is a holy truth.
It is this kind of concrete, "I am right, everyone else is wrong", mentality that I can't even wrap my brain around. What I say is "a holy truth"... words can't describe how disgusted I am by this kind of arrogance.
It gets worse
Some women marry their incomes, most earn it honestly.
Talk about a blow across the bow of marriage and family. So if you are a woman that wants to get married, stay home and raise your kids, Pink Truth says you are not earning your living honestly. zing.
She even goes so far as to paint wall street as a hero that is upfront and honest about it's products while Mary Kay, by contrast, "is a speculation of the most evil sort". HA.
The more I read on Pink Truth, the more convinced I am that with every "Havurah" out of Mary Kay, Mary Kay becomes a better, safer place.
Don't get me wrong, Havurah may be no more than a puppet and was no more than a puppet in Mary Kay, but people that make definitive statements like this are dangerous. If you are involved with people that do this - at Pink Truth or in Mary Kay, get away from there. You run the risk of not only being burned, but burning the people around you. |
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It makes me angry when I see postings like this!
ReplyDeleteWho is anyone to judge or say how ANYONE makes their money! Marriage, retail, self employed or Starbucks. Some of the statements I have seen over there are a little whack and without reason. Judging people is not one of my strong points and I really dont like to do it. Internet bullies exist and some people pretend to be something they are not on the net but by the statements I have seen (not by everyone) some of these people are vindictive and have mental problems. I dont mean crazy ...its more like a group of people who are having fun belittling the opinions of others.