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Rebekah Spicuglia, Media Director
Women’s Media Center
(office) 212-563-0680; (cell) 415-290-2970
rebekah@womensmediacenter.com
February 7, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Tebow Super Bowl ad has aired, and as expected, it is a benign telling of the Tebow family story that attempts to hide Focus on the Family’s true anti-choice, anti-woman, and homophobic agenda.
We respect Pam Tebow’s choice and the right of every woman to make important medical choices for herself and her family – a right that Focus on the Family is aggressively working to undermine. Focus on the Family has spent millions of dollars in an attempt to fool the American people, when their true intent is to have the government intrude in women’s health decisions.
The recent discovery that CBS worked with Focus on the Family for months and essentially served as a co-producer of the ad should be seen as a referendum on the status of women in the media. WMC is committed to holding CBS and all perpetrators of sexism and bias in the media accountable.
To speak with WMC President Jehmu Greene, or to book other experts on health reform, health care politics, or women’s reproductive rights, please contact Rebekah Spicuglia, (212) 563-0680, rebekah@womensmediacenter.com.
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Really now, the Tebow add was a referendum on women in the media? What about the Go Daddy adds? Maybe you should tackle adds that actually use, you know, sexism. Oh yeah, I forgot, stripping is a “freeing” experience, they’re just stripping of centuries of male domination. Get real guys, no one would have even known what this add was about if it wasn’t for WMC and Planned Parenting. You are just helping get their message across.
It’s a shame you don’t react so harshly to the commercial of Betty White getting tackled by men nor her comment towards the men in the huddle after such an aggressive hit. Be equal in your criticisms and respect others whose views don’t match yours. That is the purpose of the first amendment. If you are going to hide behind it, let others do the same.
Bravo for your ability to twist the Tebow Ad as much after the fact as you did prior to even knowing what would air. I do believe a more genuine response to the ad would be, “Oops, we goofed”.
I am very familiar with Focus on the Family and I would hope you all are aware of the laughing stock you are making of yourselves among conservatives and liberals alike. There are individuals who never agree on political issues; yet, not surprisingly, they are uniting on the front of how ridiculous you are all behaving.
A choice is a choice is a choice. You are either for it or against it. So, which is it? You must understand that all can see the mask being worn for the purpose of your own agenda. The pot calling the kettle black is hardly a profitable defense for your attack against a completely unobtrusive advertisement.
For shame.
You’re kidding right? You can’t be serious! The statement that “their true intent is to have the government intrude in women’s health decisions” is the MOST proposterous statement I think I have EVER heard. You don’t want government to intrude on a woman’s “right to choose”… unless of course they are “protecting” your agena…RIGHT? And to say that this commercial shows violence against women is absolutely ignorant! If ANYONE can prove that this commercial in ANY WAY shows and/or promotes violence against women, I’d love to see the proof. Furthermore, there isn’t anyone more in tune with hidden agendas than organizations like yours. Take “Planned Parenthood” for example. You don’t seem to point out the fact the original name of that so called organization was “The American Birth Control League”. Why the name change? Could it be possible that there’s a hidden agenda?? Lastly, please tell me how Focus on the Family is anti-women and/or homophobic? They aren’t even anti-choice, but rather anti-murder!! There isn’t anyone that is more for people and the right to live a full and prosperous life. All your organization is interested in is pushing it’s own agenda and using women as its pawn. Not to mention that you are ANTI-CHRISTIAN!!
wow-
after all your screaming and hollering…you guys look stupid in your opposition to the Tebow ad.
it was a clear simple message of love.
my wife and i are both feminists and we can only say it was an ad that we condone. there is no stronger bond than that of mother and child.
we do not agree with the Focus on the Family stand regarding womens’ reproductive rights but we do stand squarely on the side of free speech, which they exercised in a simple, clean, clear way.
if your organization has a message, then figure out a way to communicate as well as Focus on the Family. otherwise you look like whiners; not emboldened, empowered women.
Unbelievable! You are looking foolish as you continue to criticize the Tim Tebow ad! Do you actually know anything about Focus on the Family? They are PRO-life & PRO-family, trying to promote good, positive marriages, parenting, & relationships in our very difficult world today. They are not undermining a woman’s right to choose – they are presenting the “other choice”. You claim to be pro-choice, but as Cal Thomas stated, a choice presumes that there is more than one option. So are you pro-choice or pro-abortion?
And now according to The O’Reilly Factor, the Women’s Media Center is criticizing the Tebow ad for violence against women. REALLY?? Seems ridiculus. Tim Tebow is a football player and evidently some moms are tough enough to play football/sports with their sons, all in fun, as their very loving relationship showed.
Just want you to know that you do not speak for a lot of us women!
Of course the women/violence thing is ridiculous. i won’t even address it. but i see your double standard fully now…an ad that never mentions abortion or choice, or any of that language is anti-choice. anti-choice? she chose to have the baby. what about that choice? you people are so stupid you don’t even know that you yourselves are anti-choice, the very thing you claim to be against. you are pro-abortion. not pro-choice. a truly pro-choice organization would have no problem with this commercial.