Alberta Council of Women's Shelters ad campaign

Kavius writes "I heard a radio ad this morning sponsored by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters (http://www.acws.ca).

The ad features a 911 call of a little girl crying asking for help while her parent fight in the background. Right at the end of the ad, the little girls screams "DON'T HIT MY MOMMY!".

In my opinon, this was reasonable (difficult to listen too, but reasonable), until the little girl screamed those words. Unless the ACWS has the intention of running similar ads where the father is the victim (which would not make sense since they are a Women's group) these ads are damaging.

I have written a letter to both Country 105 (who played the advertisement: http://www.country105.com), and the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters, indicating that I consider the ad to be inflamitory and damaging to men's reputations who may be the victims of domestic violence.

I was not impressed the response from the radio station and am still waiting on a response from the ACWS. I'll post that as a comment."

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