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Fox Business Refuses To Air Ultraviolet Ad Slamming Pundits For Sexist Comments

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Fox Business Refuses To Air Ultraviolet Ad Slamming Pundits For Sexist Comments

Fox Business Network has rejected a television ad created by a women’s rights group that calls for pundits Lou Dobbs, Erick Erickson and Juan Williams to be fired for negative remarks they made on the network last week about women who work outside the home.

Huffington Post

Fox Business Refuses To Air Ad Calling For Firing Of Erickson, Dobbs, And Juan Williams Over ‘Sexist’ Comments

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Fox Business Refuses To Air Ad Calling For Firing Of Erickson, Dobbs, And Juan Williams Over ‘Sexist’ Comments

Fox Business Network is refusing to run an ad that urges the company to fire three of its most controversial commentators. The 30 second spot, produced by women’s equality group UltraViolet takes aim at Erick Erickson, Lou Dobbs and Juan Williams for their recent comments about women in the workplace.

Mediaite

Zombie ‘Ex’ Bleeding Target To Be Discontinued Amid Public Outcry

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Zombie ‘Ex’ Bleeding Target To Be Discontinued Amid Public Outcry

Organizations like UltraViolet, a community fighting sexism and working to expand women’s rights, petitioned Amazon to take the shooting target off of its website. “‘The ex’ shooting target turns violence against women into a joke and promotes the idea that men should want to kill their ex-wives or ex-girlfriends,” UltraViolet’s petition reads.

Huffington Post

re Social Media, Pushing Reebok To Drop a Rapper

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re Social Media, Pushing Reebok To Drop a Rapper

The groundswell of protests that has apparently forced Reebok to end its relationship with the rapper Rick Ross has focused attention on the feminist group UltraViolet, which harnessed social media and even placed ads on Facebook in a campaign against Mr. Ross after he rapped about drugging a woman and having sex with her without her knowledge.

New York Times

RAPE SURVIVORS Want Reebok to Deliver Rick Ross’ Head

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RAPE SURVIVORS Want Reebok to Deliver Rick Ross’ Head

Reebok supports date rape by supporting Rick Ross … that’s the way a leading women’s group and scores of rape survivors see it. UltraViolet — a women’s rights group 400,000 strong — is incensed the company is not dumping Ross in the wake of his new song, which fantasizes about date rape… The group — along with 150 rape survivors — grouses, “Every single day that Reebok continues rewarding Rick Ross with a lucrative endorsement deal, Reebok is condoning rape.”

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