Help stop violence against women
UNIFEM has launched an online campaign to battle violence against women worldwide. Today, the UN Foundation announced that it will donate $1 dollar for each of the first 100,000 signatures to this online petition - so please sign it! 18,000 people from all over the world have already added their names to the "Say NO to violence against women" campaign since November.
To find out more about the campaign, and to download the campaign toolkit, click here.
Posted by Jessica - January 23, 2008, at 10:03AM
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Thanks for posting this Jessica. I have already signed my name and sent out emails to my friends.
what does the money go to? UNIFEM?
It's a little ironic to "battle" violence, don't you think?
Another reason Nicole is my favorite actress
Er, really? Did you ever see her in the new Stepford Wives? It was pretty openly anti-feminist, IMHO.
Could a Guy Possibly Get Away with these Song Lyrics?
A guy finds out his girlfriend is cheating on him. He imagines her cheating with another guy. He finds her car and keys it. He has carved his name into her leather seats. With a bat, he violently knocks out the headlights, and then he slashes her tires.
Imagine all this to upbeat country lyrics. Without a doubt NOW, the Elizabeth Freeman Center, and virtually every women’s group would be going ballistic. Take back the night, they would cry. It would be on the news about the glorification of violence against women. Talking heads would shake their heads in disbelief, with a stiff upper lip.
But when a woman is the perpetrator of the violence, well, it’s a cute little country song. Currently Carrie Underwood has a country hit with such violent lyrics. And it’s treated as a cute country song. The song became a #1 country hit in 2006 and still gets wide play on many country stations
Could a Guy Possibly Get Away with these Song Lyrics?
Yes, a guy can get away with these kinds of songs. Guns N' Roses had a song with lyrics like "use to love her, but I had to kill her." Toby Keith had a country video where he kept a women prisoner in his basement while he threatened with violence. Can't remember the name of the song though. Anyway, there are numerous Rapp songs about slapping around "bitches and hos." A guy can get away with anything. They only make a big stink about it when it's a woman doing the singing like with the Dixie Chicks "Good-bye Earl" or "Independence Day" by Martina McBride. Radio stations are threatening to ban their songs, etc., It's funny because most of the violence against men songs are actually about self defense by women who are in abusive relationships. As for the Carrie Underwood song, the guy is described as getting girls drunk to have sex with them. Sounds like rape to me. Anyway, the girl in the song shouldn't be called a bimbo or a tramp in light of this fact.
I know this is a bit shallow- but I am SO not used to hearing Nicole Kidman with an Australian accent!
P.S. tooktheredpill, its been my experience that she would have been arrested for criminal destruction of property AND probably would have had a protection order taken out against her.
Its been my experience as a domestic violence advocate that police and courts are really into trying to look like they have no bias against men that they end up having a bias against women.