Feminism, skepticism and boobies

Posted by Greg Laden on January 23, 2010
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I believed people would crawl out of the woodwork to shout me down over considering acceptable the objectification of women, the “sexification” of breast cancer, and that I was going to be accused of merely wanting to save “my playthings” rather than people’s lives. You see, because I’m a guy — a heteronormative guy, at that — and boobies are therefore obviously far more important to me than the brains situated a foot and a half above them.

Don’t yell at me. Go here to complain

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  1. #1 Jason Thibeault
    January 23, 2010

    Thanks for the link Greg. I do so hope I get some troll traffic from it!

  2. #2 skeptifem
    January 24, 2010

    The marketing machine that profits off the pink ribbon crap is way worse. It makes consumerism seem like activism.

  3. #3 Greg Laden
    January 24, 2010

    skeptifem: not only seems. I saw the CEO interviewed, and this came up, and she was quite explicit. IIRC she literally said you can combine your activism with your need to shop. (I do not remember where I saw that.)

  4. #4 katydid13
    January 25, 2010

    Greg & skeptifem you just articulated what I’ve been trying to explain to other people for years about what irks me about that stuff. Yes, I’d rather support companies whose corporate philanthropy matches my vales, but mailing in your yogurt lid is not activism!