Serious issue: Fight fire with dollars.
Jun. 5th, 2009 08:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dysonrulesSnatched in entirety from faerie_lullaby and posted below. This bullshit needs to stop.
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Fromfaerie_lullaby :
I'm sure a lot of you are unaware of the completely abhorrent act that happened last week. I say this because I was unaware of it until Wednesday morning, when the lovelywook77 made this post:
http://wook77.livejournal.com/241567.ht
The long in short: right-wing, "shock jock" radio hosts, Rob and Arnie of KRXQ in Sacremento, unleashed a half hour long rant demonizing transgender/gender questioning children, even going so far as to condone and proudly justify violence against them. They were not reprimanded. They were not fired. They offered a "sort of" apology after pressure from GLAAD, which basically amounted to being sorry that people didn't get their "joke", but won't apologize for their "opinions" or what they actually said. They believe there is nothing wrong with what they said.
They believe there is nothing wrong with calling at-risk children and teens "freaks" and being glad when society "beats them down." One of the hosts proudly proclaimed that he would beat his own son with his shoes if he ever caught him putting on a pair of high heels, or wearing a dress.
This is absolutely no joke, folks. When I first read about this, it made me feel sick to my stomach. This is not okay. This is hate speech. Howard Stern got fired for talking about sex too graphically one too many times. Don Imus was fired for using a racial slur. These two were actually, ON AIR, discussing BEATING CHILDREN with great enthusiasm (which, whether they are trans or not is ILLEGAL), and they get away with it with a half-assed apology.
No no no no NO.
Unfortunately, money is the only thing that matters to these people, and the best thing to do (aside from loudly and publicly denouncing this kind of behavior) is to hit them where it hurts: the bank.
Snapple, Sonic, and Chipotle have already pulled their advertising from the station. Three cheers for them! But I want them to lose all of their advertising, until these two are off the air and publicly shamed for their atrocious behavior.
Being the lovely that she is,wook77 did the ground work, writing up a draft email that you are free to c/p, and compiling a list of advertisers and their email addresses. It's here: http://wook77.livejournal.com/241760.ht
Until we all start to make noise that this kind of behavior is wrong and hurtful, it won't stop. Of course, the people who aren't in bandom on my flist, I would hope you feel the same way and will also take part. But I called bandom out specifically because to me, this is the most trans friendly/trans open fandom I've been involved in, and I hope you are all as outraged by this as I am.
Quite a few companies have already pulled their advertising; LJ users are awesome. But it never hurts to have more, so click the links, read through, and send emails. Copy and paste to your own journals, let your own flist in on the action.
~~~~~~~~~~ End copied section. Please feel free to snatch the above and post in your own journals.
Thanks!!!
faerie_lullaby and posted below. This bullshit needs to stop.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
From
faerie_lullaby : I'm sure a lot of you are unaware of the completely abhorrent act that happened last week. I say this because I was unaware of it until Wednesday morning, when the lovely
wook77 made this post:http://wook77.livejournal.com/241567.ht
The long in short: right-wing, "shock jock" radio hosts, Rob and Arnie of KRXQ in Sacremento, unleashed a half hour long rant demonizing transgender/gender questioning children, even going so far as to condone and proudly justify violence against them. They were not reprimanded. They were not fired. They offered a "sort of" apology after pressure from GLAAD, which basically amounted to being sorry that people didn't get their "joke", but won't apologize for their "opinions" or what they actually said. They believe there is nothing wrong with what they said.
They believe there is nothing wrong with calling at-risk children and teens "freaks" and being glad when society "beats them down." One of the hosts proudly proclaimed that he would beat his own son with his shoes if he ever caught him putting on a pair of high heels, or wearing a dress.
This is absolutely no joke, folks. When I first read about this, it made me feel sick to my stomach. This is not okay. This is hate speech. Howard Stern got fired for talking about sex too graphically one too many times. Don Imus was fired for using a racial slur. These two were actually, ON AIR, discussing BEATING CHILDREN with great enthusiasm (which, whether they are trans or not is ILLEGAL), and they get away with it with a half-assed apology.
No no no no NO.
Unfortunately, money is the only thing that matters to these people, and the best thing to do (aside from loudly and publicly denouncing this kind of behavior) is to hit them where it hurts: the bank.
Snapple, Sonic, and Chipotle have already pulled their advertising from the station. Three cheers for them! But I want them to lose all of their advertising, until these two are off the air and publicly shamed for their atrocious behavior.
Being the lovely that she is,
wook77 did the ground work, writing up a draft email that you are free to c/p, and compiling a list of advertisers and their email addresses. It's here: http://wook77.livejournal.com/241760.htUntil we all start to make noise that this kind of behavior is wrong and hurtful, it won't stop. Of course, the people who aren't in bandom on my flist, I would hope you feel the same way and will also take part. But I called bandom out specifically because to me, this is the most trans friendly/trans open fandom I've been involved in, and I hope you are all as outraged by this as I am.
Quite a few companies have already pulled their advertising; LJ users are awesome. But it never hurts to have more, so click the links, read through, and send emails. Copy and paste to your own journals, let your own flist in on the action.
~~~~~~~~~~ End copied section. Please feel free to snatch the above and post in your own journals.
Thanks!!!