The entire Tebow thing is gross and irritating, but I think the anti-choicers overplayed their hands on this one. An annual freak-out over their Super Bowl ad getting rejected is cheap, let’s them chest-thumb (we can afford a Super Bowl ad!) and play the victim; they love that. Getting their ad accepted, they’re out the cash, and they are throwing their complicated (for so many people), frustrating issue at people who are just trying to watch a football game. How many mean, snippy little exchanges are going to fly between politically irreconcilable family members, while the rest of the family feels uncomfortable?

I’m not a fan of CBS’s behavior in this, but I don’t expect to see a Super Bowl ad submitted next year. But we’ll see… wingnuts in general are really showing poor messaging skills, lately.

But children are the greatest thing in the whole world and anyone who would refuse to have as many of them as possible must be insane(Assume a very sarcastic tone there)

Of course, there’s always the chance that mean, snippy little exchange creating awkwardness for everyone else could turn into a full-blown screaming match. Fun for the whole family.

You know what? I’m already tired of the Tebow ad, and it hasn’t even shown on TV yet.

I wonder, though: in the ad, will he be wearing his ubiquitous eye-black tape with the Bible chapter-verse coordinates? Cuz that might be amusing.

Anyway, my list: http://notesfromlimboland.blogspot.com/2010/02/friday-random-ten-way-to-go-genius.html

Obviously, choosing to reproduce is as valid a choice for an individual as choosing not to reproduce.

But, a rather sickening idea occurs to me: An effective counter ad would be to have the grieving family of a woman who decided to carry her child to term against medical advice.—I suspect not every such case turns out well.

Especially not for women who don’t have access to the same expensive, round-the-clock care Pam Tebow did.  But they’re just women, after all.  By definition, they can’t win the Heisman, so fuck ‘em if they die.

The most interesting thing about the Tebow ad is the questions about its truthfulness, in that abortion has been illegal, even to save the mother’s life, in the Phillipines since 1930. Would her doctors seriously have offered this option to her? It would also have had to be a backalley abortion, would it not? That might have actually been more dangerous than just waiting the birth out, making her choice a little less heroic.

Over on the birth-activism blogs I haunt, there have been many questions about what, exactly, medical condition she could have been talking about, as well—the whole thing seems more than a little fuzzy.  I mean, I’m sure the Good Christian Lady would never stretch the truth to score debate points, right?

I got into an argument over banning/not banning the ad on Twitter, but what I told the other person was, I would be equally motivated to protest an ad that suggested that maybe women didn’t really need the right to vote or own property, or that slaves actually had an ok life. This is no different. It’s common and accepted practice to demand the withdrawal of racist/offensive ads, after all, and this ad falls into that category in its implications and in the likelihood that it’s also misrepresents the facts.

But, a rather sickening idea occurs to me: An effective counter ad would be to have the grieving family of a woman who decided to carry her child to term against medical advice.—I suspect not every such case turns out well.

Absolutely true, but I don’t think this would be an effective strategy. For one, it could come across as a threat/attack on the choice to carry a medically-risky pregnancy to term. It’s a reasonable response, but I think we need to stay focused on the positive. Anti-choicers are capitalizing on “choice” right now, and I think now would be a terrible time to steer away from it ourselves. I agree with Amanda: we need to be happy for Tebow, who was very fortunate (both for the resources devoted to her, and for the outcome), but decry the underlying message, which is that other women should not have a say when it comes to their own pregnancies.

Going into the Superbowl, you have to admit that Focus on the Fetus and the Tebow “women are nothing but vessels for male offspring” clan have managed to really capture their fair share of the news cycle.

Not here in New Orleans, trust me. People here, when not shouting “Who Dat” with delirious joy over being in the Big Show, are ready to hang NFL officials from the nearest lamp post for the claim that they and they alone control who can make money off the phrase. Or they’re dressing up in funny clothes and drinking heavily, which, of course, could be any given Friday.

Which is why my heart is always with New Orleans.

But, a rather sickening idea occurs to me: An effective counter ad would be to have the grieving family of a woman who decided to carry her child to term against medical advice.—I suspect not every such case turns out well.

You’ve got a point there, Hector B., only remember that the Catholic church canonized St. Gianna. I’m not saying that everyone is a hardcore misogynist who believes it is better for a woman to die for her baby, I just think a better strategy would be to spread the message that if antis got their way, there would be no heroism or kudos in accepting to birth a risky pregnancy. It would just be expected that a woman would subliminate her own life for the fetus, and all the horrible things that entails. There is no choice when the hard route is your only option, so to speak. The anti-choice message as it is presenting now relies on emotional manipulation that is strongly reaffirmed by the warm fuzzies we are expected to feel about children and parenting in general. Never mind that the Tebow ad’s message is inherently stupid and not really a very good argument.

We generally don’t hear about the other side of the coin - of hardship, struggle, poverty, the stuff of backalley abortion and the pre-Roe days, and all the other nasty denials of women’s humanity that will occur if the right to own our uteruses is denied. We like to think that doesn’t exist. I think we pro-choicers have made a mistake in letting antis set the tone. We need to take the focus off the fetus. I think a good way to do it would be to remind everyone that women are not a hive mind, and one solution does not fit all. Pam Tebow, for instance, had access to state-of-the-art medical care for her pregnancy disorder, which millions of women do not. Bristol Palin is from a wealthy family who will support her and her child, plus anything else Bristol wants to do, like go to college unhindered by mothering. Many with unintended pregnancies do not have this support, and because it worked out for one girl does not mean that millions of others do not get to have a say if and when they bear children. 

Whoa, I’m fucking heavy on the political theory today. Here’s my playlist, pulled from iTunes Party Mix:

1) Teeth - Lady Gaga
2) Gasoline - Seether
3) Out Ta Get Me - Guns and Roses
4) Disturbia - Rihanna
5) Burn - Deep Purple
6) Be My Lover - La Bouche
7) Bingo Bango - Basement Jaxx
8) Blood, Guts and Beer - Tank
9) Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
10) I Got Mine - Motorhead

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What I find interesting is that there was no discussion (that I saw) of just boycotting the Super Bowl of CBS agreed to run that ad.  Consider, for CBS this event is a huge cash event, and they raise a lot of money for expensive advertising.  If there were enough sites calling for a boycott, and even the possibility of it being effective, those ad prices would drop, and CBS would have had to decide between losing money, dropping the ad, or allowing other advocacy ads.

Boycotting is a liberal fetish for symbolism over actual action that really gets on my last nerve.

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