Just Kristin

Accord­ing to CBS Corporation’s Diver­sity page:

CBS Cor­po­ra­tion, and its divi­sions, are com­mit­ted to fos­ter­ing an envi­ron­ment that cel­e­brates and encour­ages dif­fer­ences in peo­ple, their ideas, beliefs and cul­tural back­grounds, which, in turn, pos­i­tively influ­ences busi­ness con­duct, the pro­duc­tions, shows, prod­ucts and ser­vices we deliver, as well as, our respon­si­bil­i­ties to the com­mu­ni­ties we serve and soci­ety as a whole. This com­mit­ment enables us to attract and retain employ­ees with the tal­ent, cre­ativ­ity and inno­va­tion nec­es­sary to grow our indus­try lead­er­ship posi­tion and to deliver the finan­cial per­for­mance required by our stockholders.

Really? Unless, of course, you are a woman who wants con­trol over her own body. In that case, you are trumped by the right-wing fringe-loony group Focus on the Fam­ily and its well-on-his-way-to-permanent-dane-bramage col­lege ball star patsy, Tim Tebow. Adding insult to that injury, ads that crit­i­cize Bush or con­tain non-hateful mes­sages regard­ing the GLBT com­mu­nity have been rejected. What can we do about this?

• Sign a peti­tion or five — they have no real power but they are a venue for noisemaking
• Con­tact CBS directly and let them know what you think of their unfair, unbal­anced ad prac­tices and their back­wards mosey into the 1950s
• Con­tact other Super Bowl spon­sors and let them know you will not be watching.

Any other ideas, anyone?