Totally. Creepy.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=37339934.

What's worse is that it sold out.  That's right, SOLD OUT.

Sigh.

Tebow's Super Bowl Ad

I've been meaning to write about this for some time now, but just haven't had a chance.  In honor of the big game tomorrow, the topic, is of course, all the controversy of Tim Tebow's appearance in what is apparently a pro-life, Focus on the Family-sponsored ad during the Super Bowl.  If you've read any of my previous posts, you will probably (and correctly) assume that I am in no way a supporter of abortion on demand.  I believe that as soon as the sperm meets the egg, life begins.  If you want to get really technical, I'd even say that that particular life began in the mind of God, well before that sperm and egg ever met. But I digress.


I realize that topic like abortion cuts deep into the recesses of people's core beliefs, and that passions inflame on either side when the topic is brought up.  So, I'm not surprised that Tebow's ad would bring up such controversy.  This is America, and people are free to believe AND say whatever they like, no matter what side of the fence you fall on.


Except, of course, when it comes to the National Organization for Women (NOW).  Since news of the ad broke, NOW has aggressively been attacking CBS and pressuring them to not air the ad, since, you know, the women of NOW have apparently never heard of a little thing the framers of the Constitution called the 1st Amendment.  I know I must sound casual as I write this, but believe me when I say that when I first heard NOW's response to this situation, my blood boiled.  I was furious.


How dare NOW presume to think that they have the market cornered on what women in America want.  How dare they.  In fact, I even believe that much of NOW's extreme view of feminism not only hampered but also severely damaged the actual liberation of women.  And so, what, because I disagree with NOW, I apparently have the mental capacities of a four year old?  Or am I just some backwoods, fundamentalist-carrying on hick.  Or maybe, JUST maybe, NOW isn't as "pro-choice" as they claim.  Sally Jenkins of the Washington Post has a really engaging, rather objective take on this matter.  In this past Tuesday's post, she writes:

"Tebow's 30-second ad hasn't even run yet, but it already has provoked "The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us" to reveal something important about themselves: They aren't actually "pro-choice" so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical."

She goes on to say that

"Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn't be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikinis selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn't."

The article is well-written, and she makes a point that I made several posts ago - that sports needs a lot more Tebows, 

"Collegians who are selfless enough to choose not to spend summers poolside, but travel to impoverished countries to dispense medical care to children, as Tebow has every summer of his career. Athletes who believe in something other than themselves, and are willing to put their backbone where their mouth is. Celebrities who are self-possessed and self-controlled enough to use their wattage to advertise commitment over decadence."

You know what the kicker is?  Sally Jenkins herself is pro-choice.  But at least she's honest enough to recognize the hypocrisy that NOW perpetuates with every attack on CBS with this matter and similar.  NOW, if you are so offended, you know what you should do? 


MAKE YOUR OWN FLIPPING AD.   


I have several more thoughts about this matter in particular and the pro-life/pro-choice debate in general.  But, for the sake of at least an appearance of brevity, I'll address those later and leave with this:

Seriously, NOW, quit yapping about people celebrating life and make an ad opposing it, since that's what you're really advocating, and since, you know, you have every Constitutional right to do that.  And even though I disagree with you, I support your right to do so, a luxury you won't give others.  And hey, while you're at it, would you do something about all the Super Bowl ads that objectify women and have them strutting around in next to nothing just to sell a big of chips? Oh wait, what's that you say?  You don't mind that?  So much for liberation.

Surprise, surprise.

For further reading,another engaging and objective article by a pro-choice journalist:
"The Abortion Distortion: Just how pro-choice is America, really?" 

By Jennifer Senior, 

Published Nov 29, 2009