Lifetime wins the Super Bowl.
On this day of horrible violence towards women across the US, one station chose to counter it with some powerful films. Lifetime quietly made the choice to show Bastard out of Carolina and Black and Blue, two films about domestic violence opposite the Super Bowl. They are also showing The Good Girl, but I'm not certain that it is part of the series.
Someone at Lifetime made a really great choice and will possibly save someone from a lot of pain. I'm watching it to see which advertisers support Lifetime for these films and make them part of my choices. Maybe I'll even write a letter or two...
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that's great. thanks for noticing.
the Komen Foundation could take a cue. The Foundation fights breast cancer, but its advertisements promote violence toward women. There's a bus shelter ad on 14th street just west of 3rd avenue showing a sexy woman in a tank top, and on the tank top is written "pummell it, stomp on it, beat it" etc. Of course they're talking about breast cancer, but it really looks bad. Violence against women is so pervasive that even a pro-woman foundation's advertisement is promoting it accidentally. Hooray for Lifetime for, as you said, quietly pushing in the better direction.
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