In my much wilder younger idealist days, I was an avid boycotter. I didn't just boycott the mainstream stuff, like boycotting Gilette for testing on animals. I once boycotted Target because they sold a pink tool set for women that I considered sexist and a step backwards for the feminist movement.
I boycotted TARGET. Anyone who knows me in real life knows that is like me boycotting chocolate.
As I've aged, I've lost a lot of those idealist attitudes and have come to accept life is not perfect. However I have always kept the attitude that my purchasing power can be used for good. Now I'm boycotting again, and this time I am boycotting for my children.
Chris Brown is still on Nickelodeon's ballot for "Favorite Male Singer" in the Kid's Choice Awards.
This is simply not okay with me. At all. What does this teach children? It teaches them it is okay to punch your girlfriend repeatedly in the face, put her in a headlock until she is nearly unconscious, bite her repeatedly, threaten to kill her, and it is all okay if you can sing well.
No, it is not okay. This is not a message I want to teach my children. And I will not support a corporation that thinks this is acceptable. We are now boycotting Nickelodeon and Noggin. That's right: no Dora, no Backyardigans, no Yo Gabba Gabba.
I know most people would not go this far, but you can help out by contacting them on this issue. I already wrote them an email, signed an online petition, and will be writing them a snail mail letter at this address:
Nickelodeon
1515 Broadway
New York, NY 10036
If it were just the VMAs, I wouldn't be so worked up. But this is the Kid's Choice Awards... KIDS! Kids vote for this award, kids watch the show, kids navigate to the Nick website and see his bio.
10 comments:
Well this one's a no-brainer for me! Of course, we don't have cable, so it's not too difficult to boycott those channels. Regardless, I love that you put your money where your mouth is. Not so easy to do in this day and age!
I TOTALLY agree with you and have signed the petition!!
Wow! That's horrible! I will be writing an email and a letter too and not watching Nick. Though, my babies don't watch TV. It's my husband...sigh... he loves Spongebob.
Wow, I've finally found something I disagree with you about. I loved the pink tool kit, I would have bought it, but I prefer the higher quality and lifetime guarantee of craftsmen tools.
Chris Brown, I totally agree with you there.
No charges have been filed and he hasn't been found guilty by a court of law/jury. Until a witness comes forward and/or charges are filed he deserves to be considered innocent until found guilty. I find this a difficult decision on my part but I won't object to his appearance.
Bring on the PSA when it is something like this chica!
Well stated and I would say the VMA should have pulled him too in the same situtaion. BUT then the entertainment industry is an industy built on objectification of beauty- female and male.
A KIDS awards should is totally inexcusible. Will sign the petition by end of day. Thanks for getting this out there and a big hurray for our 1st amendment right to do so.
I can not believe you don't like the pink tools. Two of your cousins got them for Christmas. If they made them in blue my son-in-law would have received them too.
We switched to the Disney channel a month or so ago because of the no commercial thing. Looks like we would have been doing that now any way!
I am SO with you on this one! As a women's studies major (bet you would have never guessed, huh?!) at U of M this kind of stuff REALLY bothers me...I'm with you all the way!
Yes, no charges have been filed but after the incidend he admitted he did something wrong. That doesn't sound innocent to me.
I'm SO with you on this! I signed the petition yesterday and I'm glad to see he's withdrawn.
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