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vaginapaginafor those of you familiar with www.mum.org...
Radio station rejects ad for this museum
I love classical music. When my favorite classical station in this Washington, D.C., area, WBJC, in Baltimore, held its last fund-raising campaign, it offered to run one ad of the contributor's creation five times on any available day for $180. The ads had to fit a certain short format and adhere to FCC regulations - not be obscene, no call to action, etc. - and could have either business or personal content.
So I sent in the following: "This program is brought to you in part by your MUM, the museum of that time of the month. Its Web site is at http//:www.mum.org[.]"
Shortly afterwards the fund-raising manager left a message on my voice mail to call her. She said that the ad would not do and that she would send me a new form for another ad.
I asked what I should change to make the ad acceptable.
She said the station manager did not approve of the content of the MUM Web site. Later, in a letter, she told me that he said the content was inappropriate for the station's listeners. But there was nothing in the instructions I received restricting subject matter.
They need to read the quote here as to why menstruation is important to talk about.
So I asked for and got my $180 donation back, and I returned three CDs they sent me.
What if the manager had been a woman? Or what if the ads had been for the general topic of women's health, or an AIDS marathon or raising money for breast cancer? Would the word "breast" have offended the manager, à la U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's covering up of the bared marble breast of Justice behind him in press conferences? Are diseases more mentionable than normalcy? Strange!
When I started the museum I thought that intelligent, educated folks - I bet they comprise the bulk of the classical music audience - would react, well, intelligently to it, but 10 years of this museum in virtual and real form have taught me that most people, smart or dumb or in the middle, can't come to grips with menstruation.
Just as the Fox Network couldn't, as related in the Michael Moore item right below.
So that's why they must visit the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
No, not Mum, but MUM's the word!
Oh, by the way, Larry Bryant, a friend of mine as well of the First Amendment and the ONLY person to encourage me to start the museum when it was in the thinking stage, is encouraging me to file suit against the station.
Hope this isn't off topic, but I couldn't believe this. Well, wait, I can believe it, but it's ridiculous.
Radio station rejects ad for this museum
I love classical music. When my favorite classical station in this Washington, D.C., area, WBJC, in Baltimore, held its last fund-raising campaign, it offered to run one ad of the contributor's creation five times on any available day for $180. The ads had to fit a certain short format and adhere to FCC regulations - not be obscene, no call to action, etc. - and could have either business or personal content.
So I sent in the following: "This program is brought to you in part by your MUM, the museum of that time of the month. Its Web site is at http//:www.mum.org[.]"
Shortly afterwards the fund-raising manager left a message on my voice mail to call her. She said that the ad would not do and that she would send me a new form for another ad.
I asked what I should change to make the ad acceptable.
She said the station manager did not approve of the content of the MUM Web site. Later, in a letter, she told me that he said the content was inappropriate for the station's listeners. But there was nothing in the instructions I received restricting subject matter.
They need to read the quote here as to why menstruation is important to talk about.
So I asked for and got my $180 donation back, and I returned three CDs they sent me.
What if the manager had been a woman? Or what if the ads had been for the general topic of women's health, or an AIDS marathon or raising money for breast cancer? Would the word "breast" have offended the manager, à la U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's covering up of the bared marble breast of Justice behind him in press conferences? Are diseases more mentionable than normalcy? Strange!
When I started the museum I thought that intelligent, educated folks - I bet they comprise the bulk of the classical music audience - would react, well, intelligently to it, but 10 years of this museum in virtual and real form have taught me that most people, smart or dumb or in the middle, can't come to grips with menstruation.
Just as the Fox Network couldn't, as related in the Michael Moore item right below.
So that's why they must visit the Museum of Menstruation and Women's Health.
No, not Mum, but MUM's the word!
Oh, by the way, Larry Bryant, a friend of mine as well of the First Amendment and the ONLY person to encourage me to start the museum when it was in the thinking stage, is encouraging me to file suit against the station.
Hope this isn't off topic, but I couldn't believe this. Well, wait, I can believe it, but it's ridiculous.
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Date: 2004-07-14 06:17 pm (UTC)Reminds me of a sign that I saw during Pride Week... "Politicize Your Cunt!"
(Remind me to visit that site when I'm back in the world of cable internet)
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Date: 2004-07-14 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-14 06:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 08:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 04:23 am (UTC)I don't know about suing them but I for one would like to hear a decent explanation.
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Date: 2004-07-15 07:58 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-15 05:51 am (UTC)Most unfortunately, the message probably wouldn't have been aired, even if the manager were a woman, since the manager doesn't always make the rules and policies of the station.
As for suing them, I don't know if it would be worth your time - you'd be wasting a lot of money...for what? A few words on the air? I've seen far too many women here on
It doesn't make sense, I know - but also keep in mind that most people who actually run a radio station are peons and are under the control of the people who actually own the station.