Comments on: Breast Cancer Awareness Month Finally Over: Retailers Descend Into Funk http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:47:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: In which I critique an article that critiques articles « Grumpy rumblings of the untenured http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-170014 In which I critique an article that critiques articles « Grumpy rumblings of the untenured Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:18:44 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-170014 [...] mammograms-aren’t-a-panacea thing I’ve been hearing for several years, largely from feminists who advocate that putting too much attention on getting women mammograms all the time ignores [...] [...] mammograms-aren’t-a-panacea thing I’ve been hearing for several years, largely from feminists who advocate that putting too much attention on getting women mammograms all the time ignores [...]

]]> By: Jill http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-154524 Jill Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:35:03 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-154524 It looks like the mainstream is finally cottoning on to the idea that some women don't appreciate it that their life-threatening disease is an enormous source of revenue for the megatheocorporatocracy. Thanks to PhysioProf for sending the link to <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/magazine/articles/2009/10/04/sick_of_pink/" rel="nofollow">this Boston Globe article</a>. Just in time to celebrate Breast Cancer Marketing for a whole fucking month! Breast Cancer Month makes me almost as sick as breast cancer. It looks like the mainstream is finally cottoning on to the idea that some women don’t appreciate it that their life-threatening disease is an enormous source of revenue for the megatheocorporatocracy. Thanks to PhysioProf for sending the link to this Boston Globe article. Just in time to celebrate Breast Cancer Marketing for a whole fucking month!

Breast Cancer Month makes me almost as sick as breast cancer.

]]> By: Party Pooper http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-154336 Party Pooper Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2006/10/31/patriarchys-chosen-invalids/#comment-154336 My birthday is in October and once you've had cancer it's hard not to wonder how many more you'll have. Now, on top of everything else, I'm supposed to spend the whole damn month getting pink-washed? Quick, gimme a spray can of Evil Darkness, which is the real color of cancer. Even Lance Armstrong pisses me off now (and yes, I do ride). His books are all "fight your cancer with sheer inner strength." Well guess what, dude, cancer is not "mine" or "yours," it's a systemic social disease that cannot be cured with a plucky attitude. Lance hit it lucky; millions of people just as brave and strong don't. Where are the odes to them? More American women have died from breast cancer since 1920 than all Americans killed in World War I, II, Vietnam, Korea and Iraq combined. Put up a memorial wall listing those names and it'll stretch from Texas to Timbuktu. The Great Wall of Cancer is as long and strong as our national sense of denial about the truth of this disease. My birthday is in October and once you’ve had cancer it’s hard not to wonder how many more you’ll have. Now, on top of everything else, I’m supposed to spend the whole damn month getting pink-washed? Quick, gimme a spray can of Evil Darkness, which is the real color of cancer.

Even Lance Armstrong pisses me off now (and yes, I do ride). His books are all “fight your cancer with sheer inner strength.” Well guess what, dude, cancer is not “mine” or “yours,” it’s a systemic social disease that cannot be cured with a plucky attitude. Lance hit it lucky; millions of people just as brave and strong don’t.

Where are the odes to them? More American women have died from breast cancer since 1920 than all Americans killed in World War I, II, Vietnam, Korea and Iraq combined. Put up a memorial wall listing those names and it’ll stretch from Texas to Timbuktu. The Great Wall of Cancer is as long and strong as our national sense of denial about the truth of this disease.

]]> 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.

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