Comments on: Breast Cancer Awareness Month Finally Over: Retailers Descend Into Funk http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/ Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:35:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: pockafwye http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32794 pockafwye Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:26:35 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32794 Why can't we just have Cancer Awareness? Maybe it doesn't have a month of its own, but we do. I have found the resources made available by Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong foundation very useful and empowering as I have been being treated for endocervical cancer. I wear one of his yellow wristbands to show I donate to his foundation, and to show my solidarity with others who have had their lives fundamentally altered by cancer. Any kind of cancer. LiveStrong empowers you to fight for your life. Not necessarily your breast, or your beauty, but your strength and humanity. Lance knows from personal experience that the fight against cancer is a fight for our lives. And he is working on making it a national priority. http://www.livestrong.org I agree with everything that's been said above about the Patriarchy and the pink campaign demeaning women. My point is that there IS someone trying to take a better message to the nation, on behalf of all people affected by cancer. If peeing into an ocean of blame makes us feel better, then absolutely, let's do it. But then let's turn our backs on that polluted ocean, and reach out to support a cause that really IS making a positive difference. Just my 2 bits. Pockafwye (radical hysterectomy for endocervical cancer 01/02/2006) Why can’t we just have Cancer Awareness?

Maybe it doesn’t have a month of its own, but we do.

I have found the resources made available by Lance Armstrong’s LiveStrong foundation very useful and empowering as I have been being treated for endocervical cancer.

I wear one of his yellow wristbands to show I donate to his foundation, and to show my solidarity with others who have had their lives fundamentally altered by cancer. Any kind of cancer. LiveStrong empowers you to fight for your life. Not necessarily your breast, or your beauty, but your strength and humanity. Lance knows from personal experience that the fight against cancer is a fight for our lives. And he is working on making it a national priority.

http://www.livestrong.org

I agree with everything that’s been said above about the Patriarchy and the pink campaign demeaning women. My point is that there IS someone trying to take a better message to the nation, on behalf of all people affected by cancer.

If peeing into an ocean of blame makes us feel better, then absolutely, let’s do it. But then let’s turn our backs on that polluted ocean, and reach out to support a cause that really IS making a positive difference.

Just my 2 bits.

Pockafwye
(radical hysterectomy for endocervical cancer 01/02/2006)

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32532 Twisty Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:43:30 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32532 I have seen this repellent website, and once again I marvel at the unquestioning, obliging manner with which women are expected to accept themselves as boob-delivery devices, and to accept cancer as a threat not to their <em>lives</em> but to disembodied, fetishized symbols of femininity. Best to you, pocketina. Twisty, boob-free since July '06 and lovin' it I have seen this repellent website, and once again I marvel at the unquestioning, obliging manner with which women are expected to accept themselves as boob-delivery devices, and to accept cancer as a threat not to their lives but to disembodied, fetishized symbols of femininity.

Best to you, pocketina.

Twisty,
boob-free since July ‘06 and lovin’ it

]]> By: pocketina http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32512 pocketina Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:36:26 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-32512 Thank you for this post! I had just been on a HORRIBLE website, and was about to go on a crazy rampage, but your blog post brought me back to a simmer. The horrible site: http://www.savethetatas.com/ Save the tatas? "Tatas"? What the hell? Not only breast-obsessed, but infantile as well? As a woman about to undergo a bilateral without reconstruction next month, I'd love to know what I'm saving them *for*. And what container would they like me to save them in? Thank you for this post! I had just been on a HORRIBLE website, and was about to go on a crazy rampage, but your blog post brought me back to a simmer.

The horrible site: http://www.savethetatas.com/
Save the tatas? “Tatas”? What the hell? Not only breast-obsessed, but infantile as well?

As a woman about to undergo a bilateral without reconstruction next month, I’d love to know what I’m saving them *for*. And what container would they like me to save them in?

]]> By: firefall http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28350 firefall Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:20:51 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28350 Don't worry about the retailers, next month it's back to Breast Awareness Month (again) Don’t worry about the retailers, next month it’s back to Breast Awareness Month (again)

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28349 Twisty Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:37:27 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28349 "It’s “Cincinnati,” not Cincinatti." You know, I <em>thought</em> it looked wrong, but I was too lazy to undertake a study to determine the origins of my spelling's strangeness. My apologies to Cincinnati; no city deserves to be be overrun with superfluous spinsterauntly 'T's. “It’s “Cincinnati,” not Cincinatti.”

You know, I thought it looked wrong, but I was too lazy to undertake a study to determine the origins of my spelling’s strangeness. My apologies to Cincinnati; no city deserves to be be overrun with superfluous spinsterauntly ‘T’s.

]]> By: Mandos http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28346 Mandos Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:14:31 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28346 It's on this site, I believe. It’s on this site, I believe.

]]> By: filmdiva http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28344 filmdiva Thu, 02 Nov 2006 05:44:39 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28344 Did you read Barbara Ehrenreich's piece some time ago when she was being treated for breast cancer? It was in either The Nation or The New Yorker, and it was all about the infantilization of the treatment process. Hilarious and perceptive, I love her. Did you read Barbara Ehrenreich’s piece some time ago when she was being treated for breast cancer? It was in either The Nation or The New Yorker, and it was all about the infantilization of the treatment process. Hilarious and perceptive, I love her.

]]> By: varnish eater http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28338 varnish eater Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:26:32 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28338 Haha, osteoporosis is "ivory lace." Talk about descriptive! Anyway, the pink ribbon thing wasn't really on my radar until my aunt was diagnosed, and then not only did I find out about it, I became really repulsed. I usually have no words to describe my distaste. Twisty, I'm glad for your articulation on this subject. Even though it won't make breast cancer disappear or make my aunt better (EITHER, any more than pink ribbons will), portraying cancer sufferers as people instead of dolls is always the right thing to do in my book. Haha, osteoporosis is “ivory lace.” Talk about descriptive!

Anyway, the pink ribbon thing wasn’t really on my radar until my aunt was diagnosed, and then not only did I find out about it, I became really repulsed. I usually have no words to describe my distaste. Twisty, I’m glad for your articulation on this subject. Even though it won’t make breast cancer disappear or make my aunt better (EITHER, any more than pink ribbons will), portraying cancer sufferers as people instead of dolls is always the right thing to do in my book.

]]> By: Edith http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28335 Edith Wed, 01 Nov 2006 19:46:52 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28335 I really like the motto the Pink Ribbon Girls have there. "Changing the face of breast cancer." Changing it, indeed, to something young and covered in pretty makeup! Yay! High fives all around! I really like the motto the Pink Ribbon Girls have there. “Changing the face of breast cancer.” Changing it, indeed, to something young and covered in pretty makeup! Yay! High fives all around!

]]> By: L2 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28329 L2 Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:35:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-28329 The colon cancer ribbons are blue - I always thought it would be more appropriate if they were brown, y'know?? The colon cancer ribbons are blue - I always thought it would be more appropriate if they were brown, y’know??

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