In case we weren't sure porn had gone mainstream--here's NBC's "Playboy Club" for fall TV! BOYCOTT TIME!!!
"'The Playboy Club,' set in the first Playboy Club in Chicago, debuts this September as the centerpiece of NBC's new fall television season." My guess is that NBC is trying to grab some Mad Men market share. But instead they're trying to pitch "Playboy Club" as....empowering women. Ummmmm. OK.
One of the leading actresses 'praised the Playboy Bunnies as pioneers of women's lib' saying:
"They wanted their own fortune and went out into the work force doing what they wanted to do. I could not be more empowered by that example..."
Just to clarify, THIS is the new face of female empowerment: the "pioneers of women's lib":
And NBC execs couldn't agree more (surprise!):
NBC entertainment chairman Robert Greenblatt called the show a "really fun soap opera," while executive producer Chad Hodge told TV reporters that the program was "all about empowering these women to be whatever they want to be."
Oh! I get it! Pornography is just a "really fun soap opera!" And being a Playboy Bunny is REALLLLY all about female empowerment! How did I not know this?
And why do I feel like whacking my head against the wall right now?
In fact, I got so angry today because there's a bus-stop ad for "Playboy Club" RIGHT ACROSS my twins' preschool. As if that's not bad enough, this bus-stop is crowded everyday with middle-schoolers waiting for their ride home.
And they say pornography doesn't target children! (Many, many people who struggle with porn addiction were exposed to it as children).
Gloria Steinem doesn't think it's about female empowerment:
"Clearly 'The Playboy Club' is not going to be accurate. It was the tackiest place on earth. It was not glamorous at all… it normalizes a passive dominant idea of gender. So it normalizes prostitution and male dominance..."
I say it's time we mothers stood up and said ENOUGH! I'm boycotting "Playboy Club" and I urge you to do the same. Please help me CLOSE THE CLUB ON NBC by pledging to help remove pornography from network television.