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- From: michael@neuron6.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Michael Rivero)
- Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Action
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.232901.19274@jato.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Sender: pw@panix.com (Paul Wallich)
- Organization: JPL Pasadena CA
- References: <1jmhekINNiue@transfer.stratus.com>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:55:49 GMT
- Approved: pw@panix.com
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- In article <1jmhekINNiue@transfer.stratus.com> lmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com writes:
- >This came to me via some folks at Digital (yes, there still are folks
- >at Digital):
- >
- >-------
- >Help convince NBC to put domestic violence awareness public service
- >announcements on during the superbowl! (talk about reaching a lot of
- >your target audience...)
- >
-
-
- I get the impression from your post that the target audience is men.
- The problem with that is that numerous studies, including those by Suzanne
- Steinmetz, chairwomen of sociology at Indinana University, show that
- women initiate domestic villence just as often as do men.
-
- Frankly, your campeign seems to address only one side of the problem,
- based solely on gender, and as such, I cannot support it. I have written
- a letter to NBC including the studies on female domestic violence and
- Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert's studies showing that feminists promote
- the male-only offender image of domestic violence for purely political reasons.
- I also included the Statistical Abstracts of the United States that show women
- as more than twice as likely to physically abuse their children as well as
- the Canadian study that showed most children murdered by a parent as being
- murdered by the mother.
-
- I have therefore asked NBC to refrain from running any domestic violence
- PSA's unless they can portray the problem as being one of equal balance
- between the genders, and not as the myth of offending males and innocent
- females.
-
- Those who truly want ALL domestic violence to end will agree that this is
- the fairest possible approach to the problem. Those who wish to continue
- the propaganda campeigns and media male bash will, of course, disagree
- vehemently with the above statements.
-
-
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- Michael Rivero michael%neuron6@jpl-mil.jpl.nasa.gov
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