Comments on: Message to the Guys: Donating Your Organs is Almost Like Sex http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:47:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ads With Guts « I Heart Guts http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-16386 Ads With Guts « I Heart Guts Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:21:17 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-16386 [...] Channel, both featured in this month’s CMYK magazine. And to round things out, an ad by the Reborn to Be Alive Foundation in Belgium promotes organ donation features a fetching lady in lingerie and reads: “Becoming [...] [...] Channel, both featured in this month’s CMYK magazine. And to round things out, an ad by the Reborn to Be Alive Foundation in Belgium promotes organ donation features a fetching lady in lingerie and reads: “Becoming [...]

]]> By: Luci http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8959 Luci Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:08:48 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8959 This is so disturbing! As a woman currently waiting for my second heart transplant, I can say with all complete certainty that this is not the right message to be sending to a potential donor. I honestly don't think anyone who isn't a donor would become a donor because they thought their organs would go into a stereotypically attractive woman. This is so disturbing!
As a woman currently waiting for my second heart transplant, I can say with all complete certainty that this is not the right message to be sending to a potential donor.
I honestly don’t think anyone who isn’t a donor would become a donor because they thought their organs would go into a stereotypically attractive woman.

]]> By: Anna http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8532 Anna Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:56:45 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8532 I'm not saying the PETA ads are better - just that I can sort of vaguely see the connection, even if I do think they are completely screwing over their own message by going about it in a horrible, horrible way. This just.. confuses me. A lot. I'm not even in angry feminist mode about it [which is incredibly rare] I'm just .. confused. I can't see how this is supposed to get anyone anywhere. Even the most ridiculously insecure male wouldn't go for this.. surely? 'Oh, I'd fuck her, so she can have my spleen if I die and she's being operated on! YEAH!' I’m not saying the PETA ads are better – just that I can sort of vaguely see the connection, even if I do think they are completely screwing over their own message by going about it in a horrible, horrible way.

This just.. confuses me. A lot. I’m not even in angry feminist mode about it [which is incredibly rare] I’m just .. confused. I can’t see how this is supposed to get anyone anywhere.
Even the most ridiculously insecure male wouldn’t go for this.. surely?
‘Oh, I’d fuck her, so she can have my spleen if I die and she’s being operated on! YEAH!’

]]> By: Le http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8527 Le Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:17:22 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8527 Ha I guess this ad is kinda speaking to the necrophiliacs out there!!! Disturbing!!! Ha I guess this ad is kinda speaking to the necrophiliacs out there!!! Disturbing!!!

]]> By: bint alshamsa http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8518 bint alshamsa Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:22:22 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8518 Anna, I really can't see this as any better or worse than the PETA ads. Contributing to the objectification of one group isn't justified by the fact that you think your cause is really, really important. Anna,

I really can’t see this as any better or worse than the PETA ads. Contributing to the objectification of one group isn’t justified by the fact that you think your cause is really, really important.

]]> By: Anna http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8510 Anna Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:09:29 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8510 I can see where PETA are coming from, though; I think their campaigns are fucking terrible, but I can see the point they're trying to make. This, I don't get at all, unless it's a very laboured 'joke' on the phrase 'organ donation'. ...nope. Still complete bemusement. I can see where PETA are coming from, though; I think their campaigns are fucking terrible, but I can see the point they’re trying to make.
This, I don’t get at all, unless it’s a very laboured ‘joke’ on the phrase ‘organ donation’.

…nope. Still complete bemusement.

]]> By: Renee http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8508 Renee Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:00:30 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8508 What I cannot for the life of me understand is how this is supposed to promote organ donation. This is the same kind of advertising that PETA does and it leads nowhere. People stop and consume the image of the woman, express their sexism and then go on. It does not cause any lasting reflection, it only highlights the sexist inequality that women are forced to live with. What I cannot for the life of me understand is how this is supposed to promote organ donation. This is the same kind of advertising that PETA does and it leads nowhere. People stop and consume the image of the woman, express their sexism and then go on. It does not cause any lasting reflection, it only highlights the sexist inequality that women are forced to live with.

]]> By: Hoyden About Town http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8506 Hoyden About Town Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:26:47 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8506 [...] the femiblogosphere about this ad for organ donation, spotted at Sociological Images. (See also The Curvature, Feministe, the [...] [...] the femiblogosphere about this ad for organ donation, spotted at Sociological Images. (See also The Curvature, Feministe, the [...]

]]> By: SunlessNick http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8495 SunlessNick Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:04:20 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8495 Anna, I do have to concede that I've always found sex and organ donation remarkable in the degree to which they are unalike. Anna, I do have to concede that I’ve always found sex and organ donation remarkable in the degree to which they are unalike.

]]> By: Anna http://thecurvature.com/2008/11/14/message-to-the-guys-donating-your-organs-is-almost-like-sex/#comment-8494 Anna Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:59:45 +0000 http://thecurvature.com/?p=2327#comment-8494 I'm still stuck on complete bemusement. I’m still stuck on complete bemusement.

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