Tips For Our Critics
Written by SuzyQ
Many years ago, I was advised to send the third letter. Not the first or second one I wrote, but the third one I wrote, I could send. I have expanded that wisdom to include the third email. Pink Truth Critics, send us the third email.
There is sound rationale behind this practice. By the time you write and rewrite and rewrite yet again, you have calmed down and are able to articulate your message in a more thoughtful manner. It may have more of an impact if we can actually understand what you are trying to say.
A few more hints for your hate-filled missive, dear lover of Mary Kay:
- We have already been told that we didn’t have a gun held to our heads when we signed our agreements or ordered inventory. We’ve heard that no one forced us to do anything, we should have said no, it’s not mandatory it’s a choice.
- We have been called lazy loosers and also lazy losers. This site has been referred to as “pink porn.” We have been called terrorists, too, so come up with a new bad name to call us. We are bored.
- We have been repeatedly reminded that we didn’t work our businesses enough, or didn’t work them correctly. We wanted to get rich quick without putting in the work.
- We don’t consider ourselves to be negative.
- We also don’t believe that truth is negative. We believe that truth is truth. Neither negative nor positive. Let’s repeat that, truth is truth.
- We talk about our truths. Our experiences in MK. We are not entirely sure how you can argue with that, and we are tired of hearing that our experiences don’t matter.
- We’ve heard you say that we just had one bad apple leading us. That your recruiter/director isn’t anything like that. That everyone in your area is focused on selling and lots of women make money. We know better.
- If you want to talk money, then scan and attach your tax return to your email. Show us some proof for what you claim. We will block out the names.
- Just a little FYI, some of the icky people were women you saw at seminar, wanted to emulate, were on the path to nsd, drove a number of company cars, and were in Unit Clubs, and Courts, and went on Top Director trips. (Just a little reminder that you are not messing with consultants who signed their agreements last week.)
- We can out-script you to death and have probably done more recruiting interviews than you have.
- If you weren’t questioning MK, you wouldn’t be on Pink Truth in the first place. It’s incredibly difficult, if not impossible, to click on a link on Google or another search engine accidentally.
Thank you for your input, thoughtful Pink Truth Critic. But you’re going to have to get some new material, because we’ve heard it all before. And 15 years after it began, Pink Truth is still going strong. Guess corporate’s plan of waiting for us to go away didn’t really work out so well, did it?
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It’s now TWENTY years and the advice still works.
And oddly enough, Pink Truth is still going strong and it’s MK that’s about to go down the tubes. Funny how that worked out, ain’t it.
12. Run your epic pwnage through a spell checker and something like Grammarly. Misspelled common words, run-on sentences, using the wrong case (“your” instead of “you’re”, f’rex), and walls of text make it impossible to take you seriously.
13. No prayers or blessings. The devout don’t want disguised “screw yous”. The nonbelievers don’t care and might be offended. It’s far easier to convince your audience when you’re not trying to piss them off.
Geez, Suz! You are on a ROLL!
10 out of 10, no notes. You’re moving on to the next round 🙂
Spot on!
As I was reading this, I couldn’t help but picture it being delivered from the Seminar stage… followed by an epic mic drop à la GMB’s 2016 speech as the “#1 NSD in all of Mary Kay”. The only difference is that this speech is backed by receipts instead of scripts.
14 Facts are not attacks
Just because (general) you disagree with something posted, don’t type YoUR Rong and flounce. Explain how and why we are mistaken. Back it up with verifiable facts.
15 Anecdote does not equal data
Our “I-Stories” are that, OURS. Yours may well be different but that doesn’t mean one or both are false. They are most likely to be true, “From a certain point of view” Obi-Wan (Ben) Kenobi.
Just because your personal experience is different doesn’t make it more or less valid. If you were to ask the other directors from yesterday’s Frosty Rose story, I’m certain they remember it differently. That doesn’t invalidate either experience.
How much of their husbands’ money are they spending to stay in business?
Do their husbands know?
I love when they come here and say “I personally know women who make a good living doing Mary Kay”. No, Jan, you know women who TELL you they make a good living doing Mary Kay.
My former director bragged about how much money she was making, right up until she lost her unit. She never had a career car, so she truly couldn’t have been making much money.
“Guess corporate’s plan of waiting for us to go away didn’t really work out so well, did it?”
Oh look, the link goes to the insulting letter from retired MK suit Darrell Overcash – a man – telling women don’t worry your pretty little heads, don’t read outside sources. Just smile like good little girls and keep buying and recruiting like Mary Kay wants you to!
Eff off, Darrell, wherever you are.
SuzyQ – think of how many women over the years who have read your words and either quit or never signed up!!!!
I love the part about us icky people! Not including myself because I was never a director, but many if you ARE the women who were on the stage as top directors “winning” cars, trips and being the queens. The very people the pink truth critics worshipped and wanted to be! That is what they don’t get. We wouldn’t know so much about the company if we concocted our “I” stories out the blue or in modern times AI.
We are living proof there is more to life than Mary Kay Cosmetics. We lived the lie, repented and got out. Congratulations to all of us for breaking out of the pink bubble.
Pink Friday Critic – if your business were truly successful, why in the world would you ever care what anyone posted on Pink Truth? You could always so your success with actual cold hard copies of your bank statements.