. . . and I could see where you might -- only noticed a few days back that the redesign doesn't have my name next to my posts on the main page, and I have done the odd genderfuck once or twice -- this site is run by a male(-born male living as a male, albeit a kind'a femme one). The reason there are so many women posting here is because I've tried to create an environment where they feel comfortable doing so.
That, and most of them have seen photos of me giving oral sex.
Realize some people might be confused by the Breast Cancer Site button, displayed without some idiotic rant about how there isn't a Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (which, you know, there is), and isn't that sexist, and blah de blah de blah.
These would be the same folks who would complain that they couldn't have a site called Uppity-WhiteGuy.com without being accused of racism. Nonsense. It's just that you have nothing to be uppity about, and should go back to counting your money and kicking the maid.
(I'm trying to generate some heel heat here. How am I doing?)
In fact, I'm calling out male bloggers to add a link to the Breast Cancer Site for the remainder of October. Hell, I usually run way under my bandwidth limit, so I'll make it easy for you:
<center><a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/"><img alt="Fund free mammograms" title="Fund free mammograms" src="http://www.uppity-negro.com/pix/tbcs2.gif" width="120" height="60" border="0" /></a><br />
<a href="http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/">October is<br />
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month</a></center>Just paste that someplace. You'll be pulling the image from me rather than them, but don't sweat it. Or you can upload it to your own server, if you're so inclined.
Do an entry explaining what the site's about:
Your click on the "Fund Free Mammograms" button helps fund free mammograms, paid for by site sponsors and provided through the efforts of the non-profit National Breast Cancer Foundation to low-income, inner-city and minority women, whose awareness of breast cancer and opportunity for help is often limited.
And urge your visitors to click through.
Yeah, I realize there's other horrible things going on in the world, even if I'm avoiding the political entries 'round here lately, but this is something you can actually do something about instead of yakking.
Update: If you're understandably skeptical about this, Snopes has the rundown, and confirms the site's bona fides.
If you're still skeptical about Snopes after the whole Michael Moore-Bin Laden family thing, please. That was so five minutes ago.
Update: Ok, Promethus 6 and Atrios and r@d@r and Jason have stepped up. The rest of you would be waiting for. . . what, precisely?
Update: Ok, Gray's in. And he reminded me of the the Boobie-Thon, which wrapped up back on Sunday.
Any other takers?
Update 10/19: Michele mentions this over at A Small Victory, demonstrating a great deal of class in doing so, as does VASpider. Also joining in, Team Murder and George and Lean Left and Jesse and The 18½ Minute Gap.
And possibly people I'm not aware of.
Update 10/22: Progressive Gold is in, and caesurae gives a mention.
Anyone else is encouraged to give a shout-out in this thread. Particularly if you're linking the image here; I realize I said it was cool to do so, but figured folks would have enough netiquette to drop me an email or something. . .
Update: Yeah, I know, center is deprecated, the HTML is a mess, but it works, and not everyone is using MT and can use the div class="side" align="center" bit that I am. You gots improvements? Lay 'em on me.
Update: This entry seems glib, I know.
Famous Women Who Died of Breast Cancer:
- Audre Lorde
- Minnie Riperton
- Kathy Acker
- Linda McCartney
- Dusty Springfield
But it's a serious issue. Please keep that in mind.
Alright, alright.
I have been visiting the Hunger Site regularly for a couple of years. As links were added to each sister site I've started going there as well. It's amazing really, I've given the links to quite a few folks but I'm not sure that they continue to visit. I don't know why. It doesn't take *that* long.
i wish i could, seein i have boobies and all. but i would be a recipient of these free boob smooshers. and i REALLY REALLY SUPPORT this idea. kudos!
congratulations on getting linked by atrios!
and now, welcome to troll hell.
adding mammongram link to my site as well...
As a survivor, thanks for the link campaign.
I'd also like to make a plug for an organization trying to prevent breast cancer, which is (IMO) a much better option all around:
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/
[edit to make link clickable - The Mgt.]
You put an extra "p" in Minnie Riperton.
Good effin' grief, Aaron, nobody ever whines about the female-friendly (and very feminist) content on Ampersand's blog, and he's a guy too. I'm seriously not getting this... By the way, a belated (and long overdue, considering how long we've "known" each other) welcome to my blogroll! And congrats on the Atrios mention, those things always hike up my site visits too!
What with my limited tech skills I can't make the button work, but I'll link to your entry.
P6, you done good.
sj, I'm figuring either folks forget (like me), or don't think it really makes a difference. That's why I added the Snopes link.
pansypoo, no worries.
r@d@r, have some more faith in your fellow man. Or at least faith that I ain't taking no trolling 'round here.
emptywheel, thanks for the link to the other site.
Frederick, fixed, thanks for pointing that out. My copyeditor has been sacked without references.
Elayne, we negroes are meant to be misogynist, you know. And homophobic. But at least we can be FAs without catching too much flack. Thanks for the linkage, which I actually reciprocated for once, and I'm hoping the Breast Cancer Site got a similar bump in traffic thanks Atrios' mention.
RedHeadDread, good enough. What was the problem you were running into?
I'm in. Nothing like Atrios' volume, but hey, every little bit helps, right?
Here's another site where you can make a free donation to the cause of fighting breast cancer:
http://breastcancer.care2.com
At the top of the page are links to free donations to other good causes, too.
[Edit to make link clickable --The Mgt.]
Elayne, we negroes are meant to be misogynist, you know. And homophobic.
Okay, come on now, just because Oliver Willis puts a few too many salacious pictures on his blog for my taste... :)
Mike, oh definitely.
Dub, finally signed up for my care2 email account the other day, after being a member for lord knows how long. . .
Elayne, I'm waiting to see if Oliver decides to join in on this.
Oh alright then, but it's all too much effort really.
Put it up on Progressive Gold, would've done so earlier if I had actually been online last week.
Thanks man, you done good.
Thanks for the link to BCS and the kind words, Martin, but I'm not doing anything, really. Except linking things, and that's what bloggers do, right?
It just wouldn't show up at all when I pasted the code in.
I'll mention it again since it's slipped off my front page.