Super Bawl* Sunday: Ads a Feminist Could Support

Much chatter* about this year's TV ads accompanying today's football event, the yearly display of testosterone with accompanying rise in spouse abuse.  Women's Media Center has coordinated shout-outs to  CBS to dump the ad.  And been ignored.  Everything more you'd want to know appears in the blog,  The Reclusive Leftist.  She rightly nails patriarchy as the true source of the problem.

For image, I offer one  saved on my desktop for a couple of years--a poster on bus kiosk around New York City.   I'd support variations on it year round.  Living closer to the ground, so to speak, these days in Portland, Oregon,  I now start the day with the  local Oregonian delivered to my door in contrast to the national NY Times (read later when picked up at the front desk of my retirement community).

Locally Portland would seem to harbour more women abusers than back east (I doubt this) because the "small" incidents here are reported by the media.   In NYC only prominent men receive notice by journalists.  Coast to coast, however, they are always lightly punished. 

Writing to promote the "Geezers' Crusade" , David Brooks on the Op-Ed page of the Times, wants us to do more on behalf of younger people.  Would he support a movement by older people that demands  more visible signs of respect for women in every American city--bold ones like this poster? 

Could it happen in  your city?

Comments

[Kay Dennison]

I doubt it. Sexism is alive and well in the heartland. Just the other day I heard the sexist phrase I hate most: 'She got herself pregnant'. I was good.
I walked away. If I'd given in to my impluses, the party in question would have my fingerprints on his throat.

[Hattie]

Well around here the vast majority of my fellow citizens went to church in the a.m. and then congregated again to watch the Superbowl.
We live in one of the most incredible places in the world, and that is how they choose to spend their time, with stuff like this which is the lowest form of entertainment.
We went on a hike instead. When we got home the neighbors were shrieking and hullooing about the game at the Superbowl parties on either side of us.