http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/ Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:24:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-115560 Blog: The Assertive Cancer Patient | Womenhealth Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:52:50 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-115560 [...] It’s October–Time to Gag Me With Those Pink Ribbons - “Retailers right, left, and center are offering pink-themed merchandise, then donating a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. The reason the pink marketing campaign makes me so angry is that it encourages women to indulge in retail therapy while trivializing a very serious disease. This is not about raising money for cancer research; this is about companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, just to make a profit.” On a related note, Breast Cancer Action runs the Think Before You Pink campaign, which provides information on just this very topic. Time also covered this on Oct 11, as did Twisty. [...] […] It’s October–Time to Gag Me With Those Pink Ribbons - “Retailers right, left, and center are offering pink-themed merchandise, then donating a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. The reason the pink marketing campaign makes me so angry is that it encourages women to indulge in retail therapy while trivializing a very serious disease. This is not about raising money for cancer research; this is about companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, just to make a profit.” On a related note, Breast Cancer Action runs the Think Before You Pink campaign, which provides information on just this very topic. Time also covered this on Oct 11, as did Twisty. […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-114486 Good news, bad news at I Blame The Patriarchy Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:49:32 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-114486 [...] aged white women the golden opportunity to grow — into branded “awareness.” Breast Cancer Awareness the Brand, with its army of unpaid pink volunterrorists, sells, with unprecedented success, everything from [...] […] aged white women the golden opportunity to grow — into branded “awareness.” Breast Cancer Awareness the Brand, with its army of unpaid pink volunterrorists, sells, with unprecedented success, everything from […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-113810 Manure at I Blame The Patriarchy Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:06:14 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-113810 [...] Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, but if their website is any indication, they appear to subscribe to a Crunch For the Cure/Komen style of product placement/nebulous “awareness”/plucky volunterrorism that really [...] […] Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, but if their website is any indication, they appear to subscribe to a Crunch For the Cure/Komen style of product placement/nebulous “awareness”/plucky volunterrorism that really […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-90426 Save the Boobies! « Homo Academicus Wed, 10 Oct 2007 05:14:51 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-90426 [...] and urging people to feel like they are doing something by buying consumer goods. As said on I Blame the Patriarchy: If you were to ask any space alien—who happened to be dropping by on its way to the Delta [...] […] and urging people to feel like they are doing something by buying consumer goods. As said on I Blame the Patriarchy: If you were to ask any space alien—who happened to be dropping by on its way to the Delta […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-54025 Kerri Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:19:00 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-54025 Hello, My response is not to breast cancer but in regards to recovery from addiction, trauma, etc... I have been inspired by a feminist psychologist who has written books such as: -Women, Sex and Addiction. A Search for Love & Power -Many Roads, One Journey. Moving beyond the Twelve Steps -Yes, You Can! A guide to empowerment All of these books have inspired me to a life that I have never thought possible and I now have started two groups here in Calgary, Alberta Canada. I love Dr.Charlotte Kasl's 16 steps especially Step Four where it states: "We examine our beliefs, addictions and dependent behavior in the context of living in a hierarchical, patriarchal culture." Anyhow, I love this site and have learned alot from the truth being told here. I will certainly share this with other women in the group and thank you as you help me to see more on how patriarchy permeates everywhere in our current sick system. Thank you, Kerri Hello,
My response is not to breast cancer but in regards to recovery from addiction, trauma, etc… I have been inspired by a feminist psychologist who has written books such as:
-Women, Sex and Addiction. A Search for Love & Power
-Many Roads, One Journey. Moving beyond the Twelve Steps
-Yes, You Can! A guide to empowerment
All of these books have inspired me to a life that I have never thought possible and I now have started two groups here in Calgary, Alberta Canada.
I love Dr.Charlotte Kasl’s 16 steps especially Step Four where it states:
“We examine our beliefs, addictions and dependent behavior in the context of living in a hierarchical, patriarchal culture.”
Anyhow, I love this site and have learned alot from the truth being told here. I will certainly share this with other women in the group and thank you as you help me to see more on how patriarchy permeates everywhere in our current sick system.
Thank you,
Kerri

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-41598 Blog: The Assertive Cancer Patient « Women’s Health News Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:21:16 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-41598 [...] It’s October–Time to Gag Me With Those Pink Ribbons - “Retailers right, left, and center are offering pink-themed merchandise, then donating a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. The reason the pink marketing campaign makes me so angry is that it encourages women to indulge in retail therapy while trivializing a very serious disease. This is not about raising money for cancer research; this is about companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, just to make a profit.” On a related note, Breast Cancer Action runs the Think Before You Pink campaign, which provides information on just this very topic. Time also covered this on Oct 11, as did Twisty. [...] […] It’s October–Time to Gag Me With Those Pink Ribbons - “Retailers right, left, and center are offering pink-themed merchandise, then donating a tiny share of the profits to cancer research. The reason the pink marketing campaign makes me so angry is that it encourages women to indulge in retail therapy while trivializing a very serious disease. This is not about raising money for cancer research; this is about companies trying to sell us stuff we don’t need, just to make a profit.” On a related note, Breast Cancer Action runs the Think Before You Pink campaign, which provides information on just this very topic. Time also covered this on Oct 11, as did Twisty. […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27853 Feministe » Where’s My Black-n-Blue Ribbon? Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:55:26 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27853 [...] At the risk of sounding as though I am trivializing breast cancer, it’s impossible not to notice which issue receives most of the awareness in October, and that it is coincidentally the issue involving fun bags. As Twisty noted earlier this month, breast cancer awareness does not equal breast cancer activism, and concern for healthy breasts does not equal concern for healthy women: I mean, from where I sit, breast cancer isn’t about boobs. It’s more about, oh I don’t know, death. [...] […] At the risk of sounding as though I am trivializing breast cancer, it’s impossible not to notice which issue receives most of the awareness in October, and that it is coincidentally the issue involving fun bags. As Twisty noted earlier this month, breast cancer awareness does not equal breast cancer activism, and concern for healthy breasts does not equal concern for healthy women: I mean, from where I sit, breast cancer isn’t about boobs. It’s more about, oh I don’t know, death. […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27352 Citizen of the Month » Promotional Awareness Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:00:32 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27352 [...] After I made my blog “pink” for Breast Awareness Month, I received a surprising email from someone who is against the whole concept of ”awareness” month.  It seems as if there are quite a few people out there who think corporations are using their support of breast cancer for their own profit and brand awareness.  Are yogurt brands really interested in breast cancer or are they just marketing to women?  But where’s the activism? The ostensible focus of all this pseudo-philanthropic pink jockeying is a kind of nebulous breast cancer ‘awareness’, rather than any serious effort at prevention or investigation into what actually causes breast cancer in the first place. Furthermore, once all this ‘awareness’ has produced, via mammography outreach programs or self-exam propaganda (both masquerading as ‘prevention’), a positive diagnosis, there’s not any great push to secure treatment for underserved women. [...] […] After I made my blog “pink” for Breast Awareness Month, I received a surprising email from someone who is against the whole concept of ”awareness” month.  It seems as if there are quite a few people out there who think corporations are using their support of breast cancer for their own profit and brand awareness.  Are yogurt brands really interested in breast cancer or are they just marketing to women?  But where’s the activism? The ostensible focus of all this pseudo-philanthropic pink jockeying is a kind of nebulous breast cancer ‘awareness’, rather than any serious effort at prevention or investigation into what actually causes breast cancer in the first place. Furthermore, once all this ‘awareness’ has produced, via mammography outreach programs or self-exam propaganda (both masquerading as ‘prevention’), a positive diagnosis, there’s not any great push to secure treatment for underserved women. […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27076 The Worsted Witch » Blog Love: I Blame the Patriarchy Mon, 02 Oct 2006 18:53:06 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-27076 [...] Says I Blame the Patriarchy: If you were to ask any space alien—who happened to be dropping by on its way to the Delta Quadrant—about breast cancer, it would undoubtedly tell you that, according to its personal observations, the primary symptom of the disease is a dramatically increased propensity to sprout pink teddy bears, pink visors, and pink rhinestone jewelry. Of course you and I know that infantilizing misogynist teddybear rhinestone pinkness, cancer-o-normative though it may seem, is actually just one of the most successful campaigns in the history of marketing gimmicks. Thanks to unprecedented support in terms of cash and selfless volunterrorism, breast cancer is currently the most popular disease in America. … [...] […] Says I Blame the Patriarchy: If you were to ask any space alien—who happened to be dropping by on its way to the Delta Quadrant—about breast cancer, it would undoubtedly tell you that, according to its personal observations, the primary symptom of the disease is a dramatically increased propensity to sprout pink teddy bears, pink visors, and pink rhinestone jewelry. Of course you and I know that infantilizing misogynist teddybear rhinestone pinkness, cancer-o-normative though it may seem, is actually just one of the most successful campaigns in the history of marketing gimmicks. Thanks to unprecedented support in terms of cash and selfless volunterrorism, breast cancer is currently the most popular disease in America. … […]

]]> http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-26928 I Got Yer Boobython Right Here at I Blame The Patriarchy Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:16:48 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/09/19/crunch-for-the-cure/#comment-26928 [...] Boobie-Thon, in case you don’t read Salon or Self, is a blogger-driven pink ribbon dealio. Readers send their homemade “rack shots” to Florida blogger Robyn Pollman’s boobiethon.com site. Then, for a $50 donation, boob-lovin’ voyeurs get to access the photos. The money goes to either Children’s Hospital Boston or the dreaded Komen Foundation. [...] […] Boobie-Thon, in case you don’t read Salon or Self, is a blogger-driven pink ribbon dealio. Readers send their homemade “rack shots” to Florida blogger Robyn Pollman’s boobiethon.com site. Then, for a $50 donation, boob-lovin’ voyeurs get to access the photos. The money goes to either Children’s Hospital Boston or the dreaded Komen Foundation. […]

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