Comments on: Manure http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:38:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Sandi http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114460 Sandi Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:35:09 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114460 twisty, reading this piece is like a huge breath-o-fresh air, because the madness just surrounds us regarding the whole MAKEUP industry, and i am particularly thrilled by your mention of the animal torture done in the name THEREOF...not to mention the cancer-opportunists!! what about the cancer-causing ingredients in the wonderful cosmetics? hee-hee, how silly we are to doubt them, right?? twisty, reading this piece is like a huge breath-o-fresh air, because the madness just surrounds us regarding the whole MAKEUP industry, and i am particularly thrilled by your mention of the animal torture done in the name THEREOF…not to mention the cancer-opportunists!! what about the cancer-causing ingredients in the wonderful cosmetics? hee-hee, how silly we are to doubt them, right??

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114386 Twisty Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:16:19 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114386 Ikillmeownspiders, I wish you would reconsider killing spiders. Ikillmeownspiders, I wish you would reconsider killing spiders.

]]> By: Ikillmeownspiders http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114321 Ikillmeownspiders Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:16:54 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114321 The other insidious aspect of this campaign is that it's promoting the idea that women are supposed to love performing unpaid labour. The capitalist pig industries are wising up to the fact that the pool of volunteer labour that sustains the economy, is shrinking. Better start glamming up that old volunteer work eh? Thanks, Twisty, you effin' rock! The other insidious aspect of this campaign is that it’s promoting the idea that women are supposed to love performing unpaid labour.
The capitalist pig industries are wising up to the fact that the pool of volunteer labour that sustains the economy, is shrinking.

Better start glamming up that old volunteer work eh?

Thanks, Twisty, you effin’ rock!

]]> By: Nia http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114268 Nia Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:16:30 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114268 I have been looking for the bit in the website where it says it is contributing to a EU directive, but I'm apparently allergic to Flash sites. This is really weird, because directives is eurospeak for laws. And as far as I know, the directive that makes all non-medical animal testing illegal by 2013 already exists. I think I have mentioned before that IBTP has made me decide never to dye my hair again, ever. It's not a lot, but it means one free afternoon every three weeks, which would have been spend in a hairdresser's. I might spend it reading Andrea Dworkin. I have been looking for the bit in the website where it says it is contributing to a EU directive, but I’m apparently allergic to Flash sites.

This is really weird, because directives is eurospeak for laws. And as far as I know, the directive that makes all non-medical animal testing illegal by 2013 already exists.

I think I have mentioned before that IBTP has made me decide never to dye my hair again, ever. It’s not a lot, but it means one free afternoon every three weeks, which would have been spend in a hairdresser’s. I might spend it reading Andrea Dworkin.

]]> By: Lara http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114206 Lara Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:49:25 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114206 And another thing to add about Nestle: they also make Yorkie chocolate bars (you know, the packaged crap they sell in the UK with the motto "Yorkie, it's not for girls!" with an image of a red slash symbol across the generic bathroom image of a woman). Blech, Nestle. And another thing to add about Nestle: they also make Yorkie chocolate bars (you know, the packaged crap they sell in the UK with the motto “Yorkie, it’s not for girls!” with an image of a red slash symbol across the generic bathroom image of a woman). Blech, Nestle.

]]> By: Twisty http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114106 Twisty Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:57 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114106 Lauredhel, thanks for pointing out the Nestle connection. A famously evil conglomerate. As I was writing this post I said to myself, "Twisty, now don't forget to look up the parent company because it's bound to be something hideous." And then the lunch bell rang, and well, you can guess the rest. Lauredhel, thanks for pointing out the Nestle connection. A famously evil conglomerate. As I was writing this post I said to myself, “Twisty, now don’t forget to look up the parent company because it’s bound to be something hideous.” And then the lunch bell rang, and well, you can guess the rest.

]]> By: The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114105 The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:47:24 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114105 Or, “I recognize that it’s better to be high-priced than cheap.” What woman doesn't use this survival tactic? Another Twisty zinger makes my day. Or, “I recognize that it’s better to be high-priced than cheap.”

What woman doesn’t use this survival tactic? Another Twisty zinger makes my day.

]]> By: slythwolf http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114096 slythwolf Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:07:57 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114096 Interestingly, only men are actually worth, you know, <i>not wasting time and money on this carcinogenic shit in the first damn place</i>. Interestingly, only men are actually worth, you know, not wasting time and money on this carcinogenic shit in the first damn place.

]]> By: Lara http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114066 Lara Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:19:49 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114066 In regards to the manipulative nature of advertising and how the co-optation of feminism for capitalist gains (what coathangrrr was referring to) there is a whole documentary series that I learned about from Polly at sizeofacow blog. It covers this aspect of advertising and how advertising came to be in our culture throughout the 20th century. I REALLY recommend taking a look at it, it was so fascinating I couldn't stop watching it: http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=140 Click on the link that says "Watch Movie Now!" Awesome post by Twisty (yet again). I can't stand the co-optation of pro-woman rhetoric for capitalist gains in an industry that is based solely on the subjugation of women. A lot of women now think that putting on lipstick and looking like a "princess" is "empowering". I find opposing huge corporations like L'Oreal/Nestle a whole hell of a lot more empowering, frankly. IBTP. In regards to the manipulative nature of advertising and how the co-optation of feminism for capitalist gains (what coathangrrr was referring to) there is a whole documentary series that I learned about from Polly at sizeofacow blog. It covers this aspect of advertising and how advertising came to be in our culture throughout the 20th century. I REALLY recommend taking a look at it, it was so fascinating I couldn’t stop watching it:

http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=140

Click on the link that says “Watch Movie Now!”

Awesome post by Twisty (yet again). I can’t stand the co-optation of pro-woman rhetoric for capitalist gains in an industry that is based solely on the subjugation of women. A lot of women now think that putting on lipstick and looking like a “princess” is “empowering”. I find opposing huge corporations like L’Oreal/Nestle a whole hell of a lot more empowering, frankly.
IBTP.

]]> By: charlotte http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114042 charlotte Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:37:38 +0000 http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2008/04/09/manure/#comment-114042 And I thought that foundations like the Komen foundation do invest in research to bring about better prevention. I guess I was wrong. And I thought that foundations like the Komen foundation do invest in research to bring about better prevention. I guess I was wrong.

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