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- From: sfjr@wam.umd.EDU (Steve Russell)
- Subject: Re: Domestic Violence Action
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- Newsgroups: soc.feminism
- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 23:40:46 GMT
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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):
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- >Help convince NBC to put domestic violence awareness public service
- >announcements on during the superbowl! (talk about reaching a lot of
- >your target audience...)
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- Michael Rivero writes:
- >I get the impression from your post that the target audience is men.
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- I read the same post. The word "men" wasnt even mentioned.
- I'm tired of the same bias you discuss, but I didnt get the
- same impression you did from the artical.
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- and continues:
- >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.
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- I've read of these stats before and they do sound legitimate.
- I do think feminists exist some by their own intention, and
- some not that have been painting a poor caricature of men in
- general.
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- However I think this is another issue. I've read of this post
- football moodswing before. I've seen others get pumped
- from various sporting events and do stupid things, esp after
- a few beers. It is a problem. I dont see a public service
- announcement in neutral language can harm anyone or anyone's
- image. I doubt if it was done that NBC would employ a Pat
- Califia type for a 30 sec spot vituperating men as a whole.
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- I think your stats, though apart from this issue are important
- and should be made widely known.
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