CBS has changed its longstanding policy of not allowing issue ads during the Super Bowl to accept an anti-choice advertisement from Focus on the Family, and women’s groups are furious at the double standard: CBS still rejected an ad from a gay dating service. Jehmu Greene and the Women’s Media Center are calling for CBS to pull the ad, and other groups have joined the protest.
Meanwhile, Nona Willis Aronowitz has a new book, Girldrive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism, aiming to find out what kind of feminism women around the country, and Shelby Knox came from a southern conservative background to become an activist for sex education. We ask them what feminism means now and whether we should be focused on women in the media or other issues.
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