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Three Examples of Rape Culture in Nice Guy(tm) Breast Cancer Activism

By Lauredhel on December 13, 2009

I thought the BoobyWall was objectifying and tacky. I thought “Save the Ta-Tas” was dehumanising, and missed the point badly. I thought the “every mouthful” nipple-water-bottles were eyeroll-worthy. I thought that instructing us that if only cismen had boobs, they’d look after them better was disparaging and rude. I thought “Save Second Base” was creepy, [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, health, violence | Tagged activism, activism/charity, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, breasts, cancer, rape culture, sexual assault, workplace | 14 Responses

Plucked from the wire: blogs are dead, dancing boobies, detention debt, NSW health, and Oz net use

By Lauredhel on October 22, 2008

Blogging is dead, long live multimedia-sharing and Twitter Wired says blogs are dead. Blah blah linkbait, blah blah everyone’s on Twitter these days, blah blah. Read it if you can be bothered. Most amusing moment: the author complains that blogs attract abusive commenters, and suggests Youtube instead. Most overlooked problem with the multimedia explosion: accessibility. [...]

Posted in health, law & order, media, medicine, technology | Tagged accessibility, birth, blogging, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, censorship, consumerism, exploitation, hoydens, moral panics, NSW, race & racism | 16 Responses

“Bring breast awareness back to the workplace”

By Lauredhel on September 19, 2008

Remember Rethink? With all their huh-huh-boobies advertisements? Rethink, who thinks that the main focus of “breast cancer awareness” should be sexualised breasts and men? They’re at it again. This time, they’re exhorting us to “Bring breast awareness back into the workplace“. Cheers, I’m just fine without. Whose brilliant idea was this? Sexual harassment jokes – [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, health | Tagged advertising, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, breasts, gratuitous ogling, hoydens, peeves, sexual harassment | 14 Responses

More “Teehee! Boobies!” from the breast cancer awareness industry

By Lauredhel on April 4, 2008

And again, a ‘breast cancer awareness’ ad misses the mark completely. This ad is from the pinkified crazysexycancer campaign “Rethink”, sponsored by a femirazor company and fashion, makeup and hairstyling product manufacturers, among others. You may remember Rethink from such campaigns as the Booby Wall. The ad features a series of enboobified suburban white dudes [...]

Posted in gender & feminism, media | Tagged advertising, breast cancer, breast cancer awareness, gratuitous ogling, peeves, tagline | 10 Responses

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