February 5, 2010 (New York, NY) – The Women’s Media Center is not backing down. CBS, the NFL and Super Bowl advertisers are still planning to air the anti-choice Super Bowl ad, and we continue to hold them accountable. This biased policy reversal in favor of the anti-woman, homophobic organization Focus on the Family should be seen as a referendum on the status of women in the media and marks the first time the Super Bowl will be used to push a polarizing, political agenda.
Though we have not been allowed to see the Tebow ad, our understanding is that it is a mild telling of the Tebow family story. We respect the ability of every women to make important personal medical choices for herself and her family, and Pam Tebow had the opportunity to make the choice to carry her high-risk pregnancy to term – 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 reproductive health decisions.
Women’s Media Center supporters have sent more than 200,000 emails to CBS, the NFL, and Super Bowl advertisers, with hundreds of thousands more letters sent in from coalition partners allied organizations. CBS and the NFL gambled that women would allow this biased decision to go unchecked, but as a result of our actions, Focus on the Family’s anti-choice, homophobic agenda has been exposed.
The Super Bowl has always been a showcase of overt sexism with advertisements that objectify and demean women. The Women’s Media Center will host “Jockocracy Watch,” an online live commentary with WMC Co-founder Gloria Steinem, WMC President Jehmu Greene, Shelby Knox, and other special guests. It will be an interactive, lively discussion of feminism, sexism in the Super Bowl, and the ongoing fight to protect women’s reproductive rights.
“Jockocracy Watch” will be taking place Sunday, February 7, 5:30pm – 10:30pmET, at http://bit.ly/ustreamwmc.
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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Protesting the super bowl ads, of which, had nothing to do with promoting violence against anyone, put one of your representatives on fox news unfortunetly. You may be able to get another return invite if you start protesting violence in cartoons as well. Then you can be treated with the same importance of a cartoon itself.
Never heard of this organization before, this is my first knowlege / introduction to it and in my opinion there is no credibility to it’s existence. simply ridiculous. I am sure the public viewpoint of those ads is that they do not promote violence against women or any other group on general. I can not believe the junk that makes the news.
Stand for something solid please.