We know that sex sells. Advertisers use sex to sell cars, clothes, jewelry, perfume, etc. But there is one product that Fox and CBS feel strongly that sex shouldn't' sell - CONDOMS! Yes, you read that right, it said condoms. Read more here.
Trojan has release their new advertising campaign that focuses more on pregnancy prevention than disease prevention. Apparently, this doesn't fly with the conservative TV stations, since they have refused to air the Trojan commercials. I think this move is ridiculous and smells staunchly of hypocrisy. What do you think?
Monday, June 18, 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
Birth Control Watch
Birth Control Watch - a great new website and a joint project between the Women Donors Network and Communications Consortium Media Center. Check it out! It has a good section on how to be a two minute activist as well as a page that lists seven questions you should ask your senators and representatives in Congress.
I thought these questions were great and I would challenge people in OK to ask, on a state level, what our legislators think.
I thought these questions were great and I would challenge people in OK to ask, on a state level, what our legislators think.
1. Do you support couples having access to safe and effective birth control options, including emergency contraception?
2. Do you agree that for women to achieve equality, they must have access to family planning services, including birth control and contraception?
3. Do you support requiring health insurance plans that cover prescription drugs to cover birth control and contraception?
4. Do you support expanding current federal funding for Title X and Medicaid so that women with low incomes have more access to birth control options?
5. Do you support requiring pharmacies to dispense birth control to patients without discrimination or delay?
6. Do you support comprehensive sex education being taught in schools that includes information about abstinence, contraception and how to avoid sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS?
7. Do you support the Prevention First and Access to Birth Control (ABC) Acts?
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Conduct Unbecoming of Whom?
In May the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs had a disheartening cover story for their monthly Perspectives publication. It read: Conduct Unbecoming: It's time to shut down the OU Women's Studies Program.
What?!?!
I know, I was thinking the same thing. Inside, you will find an article that explains to the reader that state tax money should not be used to fund a program that is devoted to women and to feminist ideology. The author, Jennifer Roback Morse, also goes into detail about why we should be funding Men's Studies Programs.
This article was written by a woman who doesn't live in Oklahoma and her current career path seems to include spreading her anti-women's studies tirade across the country. This should seem a little more comforting. However, something tells me that it won't be too long before we see a bill along these lines in the Oklahoma Legislature.
What do you think?
What?!?!
I know, I was thinking the same thing. Inside, you will find an article that explains to the reader that state tax money should not be used to fund a program that is devoted to women and to feminist ideology. The author, Jennifer Roback Morse, also goes into detail about why we should be funding Men's Studies Programs.
This article was written by a woman who doesn't live in Oklahoma and her current career path seems to include spreading her anti-women's studies tirade across the country. This should seem a little more comforting. However, something tells me that it won't be too long before we see a bill along these lines in the Oklahoma Legislature.
What do you think?
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