September 30, 2011
For weeks before last Monday’s premiere of the new NBC show, The Playboy Club, the network had pulled out all the stops to promote the show. First there was a blitz of salacious TV promos leading up to the premiere – often aired during family viewing time. Then they unleashed a slew of articles to entertainment news sources with interviews of Playboy Club actresses promoting the show as an example of “female empowerment.” Finally, as they tried to claim the show empowered women, they proceeded to objectify women by having one of the actresses from the show pose on the cover of the actual Playboy magazine.
With all the money and hype poured into promoting The Playboy Club, the producers must have been reaching for large doses of antacid when the ratings came in. Last week’s premiere episode of The Playboy Club garnered a measly rating of 1.6 in the coveted audience of adults aged 18-49. These ratings are tremendously dismal. One reviewer stated: “Given the paltry premiere ratings of 1.6, The Playboy Club will almost certainly be canceled.”
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September 22, 2011
In recent days we’ve received several notes and emails regarding a mall window display of a group of topless women – not at Victoria’s Secret – but at the plus size women’s clothing store, Lane Bryant.
One supporter first alerted us to this blatant display in the Lansing, MI shopping mall. In addition, we’ve heard from several others expressing outrage.
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September 21, 2011
By Chris Johnson
The first line of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has caused a considerable amount of controversy. In fact, there was even concern regarding the meaning of the amendment ten years after it was added to the Constitution.
In answer to a letter from the Danbury Baptist Church which expressed concern that religious freedom was treated not as a human right but as a favor from the state, Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802 to assuage the congregation’s anxiety with the following words, which have since been warped to mean the opposite of the original intent: Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should “make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,” thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.
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