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> Stupid Bowl is Sexist

7 February 2006, 00:24

I boycotted the Stupid Bowl because of all the hoopla around it being so sexist. When people are so indoctrinated with sexist images of women in commercials and elsewhere during this Stupid Bowl, the increase of violence toward women skyrockets. I use to work at a domestic violence shelter. During Sexist Stupid Bowl, there were more women coming through the shelter that evening then any other evening. Women are half the human race, but are objectified for corporate interest. So many women put up with the Stupid Bowl because they suffer from internalization of oppression. They cook and cater to these super bowl moron fans and subjegate themselves to sexist ads. They are truely oppressed. I will never put up with Stupid Bowl sexist crap. I will always bocott this decadent event along with other decadent events. I will not allow Capitalism and patriarchy take away my freedom, my precious time like that. The Stupid Bowl crap is invasive and intrusive in many of our lives, but not mine. I chose to boycott TV that day in general. The only stuff I watch is Amy Goodman on Democracy Now and the like.

Andrea