http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/ UrGently Fierce Feminism In Perilous Times Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:13:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/comment-page-1/#comment-157503 Double Dose: More Proof Virginity Pledges Don’t Work; Genetic Testing and Ambiguity; Cut Health Care Costs, Not Care; The Year in Medicine … | Our Bodies Our Blog Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:29:59 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/#comment-157503 [...] Don’t Blink: Via Feminist Peace Network: “As we come to the final stretch of 2008, plagued as we are with the usual collection of horrors–Gaza burning, Tennessee buried in toxic ash, women and children being raped and killed in the Congo, and on and on, I’m sure y’all were just as relieved as I was to know that the FDA is considering approval of a glaucoma drug for eyelash enhancement, an idiocy I would have previously thought would be confined to the cable shopping networks.” [...] [...] Don’t Blink: Via Feminist Peace Network: “As we come to the final stretch of 2008, plagued as we are with the usual collection of horrors–Gaza burning, Tennessee buried in toxic ash, women and children being raped and killed in the Congo, and on and on, I’m sure y’all were just as relieved as I was to know that the FDA is considering approval of a glaucoma drug for eyelash enhancement, an idiocy I would have previously thought would be confined to the cable shopping networks.” [...]

]]> http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/comment-page-1/#comment-156116 Echidne Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:44:09 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/#comment-156116 My understanding is that glaucoma drugs regulate the pressure inside the eye? I may be totally wrong about that, but it would seem rather dangerous to regulate the pressure in a health eye just for the sake of thicker lashes. My understanding is that glaucoma drugs regulate the pressure inside the eye? I may be totally wrong about that, but it would seem rather dangerous to regulate the pressure in a health eye just for the sake of thicker lashes.

]]> http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/comment-page-1/#comment-155948 jenn Mon, 29 Dec 2008 13:54:40 +0000 http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/12/29/beyond-mascara-fda-considers-approving-drug-that-may-blind-you-for-eyelash-enhancement/#comment-155948 Wow. Not surprising to me, considering all that has come before, but still breathtaking in its exploitative stupidity. Wow. Not surprising to me, considering all that has come before, but still breathtaking in its exploitative stupidity.

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