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By: Awareness… Yeah, That’s the Ticket! « Against All Evidence

Awareness… Yeah, That’s the Ticket! « Against All Evidence — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:57:08 +0000

[...] Susan G. Komen Foundation had an ad showing a woman with a shirt that reads, “Punch it, strangle it, kick it, spit on it, choke it, and pummel it until its good and [...]

By: panvega

panvega — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 22:16:29 +0000

Love the photo of you!
Thanks for posting this article – disturbing and important.

By: kristina

kristina — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 03:46:09 +0000

ugh, it reminded me of when I was preggo and my husband asked what it was like for me to be prodded by my gyno, I had a female gyno and male sometimes filled in… I said what would make you think I like a finger shoved so far up my vagina that it feels like they’re hacking up my brain? He actually thought the sensation was good, or that women don’t have any other requirements other than physical stimuli in order to “get going”. I then asked him if he had a pervy fantasy in which I would get turned on by the woman poking up in my shit…he didn’t answer..I think he knew if he did he would have been out of there in a hurry. ugh…men are lucky in a way.. apparently physical stimuli no matter what the situation or person = horny…no wonder they are at such a disadvantage…

By: Elaina

Elaina — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:49:35 +0000

Twisty you are so awesome!

I had a tumor removed from one breast at 17, then three more removed at 21. I wrestled with how “my femininity” would be tarnished before I took the bandages off after the first surgery, I even wrote a crappy little poem about standing in front of the mirror, about to behold my scar. Woe is me. The second time around, the original tumor had grown back and two more had arrived as well, but I was so relieved that the biopsies were all benign that I didn’t really care how they looked, I was just glad I escaped cancer for the time being. The other week my brother in law asked me “What the hell happened to your chest?!” I’m still scared to examine myself to look for more… I don’t have insurance anymore… but seeing you in shirtless splendor gives me courage and perspective. Thanks.

By: Lemur

Lemur — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:18:36 +0000

*er, imagining. How embarrassing.

By: Lemur

Lemur — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:18:03 +0000

I’m imaging Cameron Frye from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, saying, “Twisty Faster you’re my (s)hero”.
But yeah, if we’re fighting breat cancer, aren’t we allowed to have heads? No no, that must be crazy talk. *sigh* IBTP.
That second photo, however, makes my day. You rock so hard.

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:38:14 +0000

i meant, other feminists who are, in addition to you, more experienced.
shutting up now.

By: ashley

ashley — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:36:44 +0000

hah, I didn’t realize I sounded ditzy. :)
but seriously, I study on my own but I learn a lot here, and from reading other more experienced feminists.

thanks for coming back !!!

By: Twisty

Twisty — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:34:49 +0000

Quoth Ashley: “it’s like, patriarchy is a machine beyond our control.”

Finally! Somebody gets it!

So many of today’s funfeminists seem to believe that acknowledging the existence of some vague misogynist entity called “patriarchy,” and then assuming some fighty grrlpower kickboxing stance, is the whole ball of wax. The hideous truth that eludes these women is that patriarchy — a system of beliefs and behaviors that defines women as a class of subhuman deviants whose natural state is to service male culture — is the dominant social order.

By: ashley

ashley — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:46:19 +0000

Oldmama’s comment made me think really hard about this, because i never would have thought what she did. I always go straight to “this world is insanely creepy and a giant conspiracy to highjack my uterus and kill me when convenient.” which it totally is. and while it’s an old post, I wanted to ad that I think the really creepy thing is, that the people who sat in a marketing room and created this aren’t aware enough that snuff-film images are being used here. let me explain.

it is visible that this is an attempt to portray women as strong and fighting for a cause that involves them.

i think that the people that made this ad are so misogynist by socialization that they can’t make themselves conscious of the range of images available, and even worse, they have lost their ability to create new ones.

what i am basically saying is that even people who try to empower women (by their definition) are so drenched in violent rapist culture that they literally can’t find another medium in which to communicate that they want to help..or realize that they’re making it worse.

that’s almost scarier than a bunch of men sitting around a table thinking how to encourage people to rape more. it’s like, patriarchy is a machine beyond our control. if these people were deliberately evil, maybe their minds could be changed. or at some point they won’t be around, and a new generation will have a shot.

what’s really f-ing scary is that patriarchy seems to be a machine that no one can see, or stop.