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3/1/04
- Time Magazine comments on campaign
2/22/04
- San Francisco Chronicle writer defends Boys
Are Stupid products. Menstuff responds
2/2/04
1/29/04
1/18/04
Some of the Press
Stories to Date
Miscellanous
Removals: Bon Macy's, Bloomingdale's,
Claire's,
Dapy's
(Universal Studios), Delia's,
Dillard's,
Holt
Renfrew
(Canada), and Tilly's clothing
stores
Still Working On: Rotten
Cotton and Future
Wife Beater T-shirts plus items
at David
& Goliath, It's
Happy Bunny and Border's
Books and Flatline
stickers
2/2/04: Message from
Glenn Sacks. As many of you know, it’s been a
big media week for our campaign against the "Boys
are Stupid--Throw Rocks at Them" products. Our
campaign was the subject of an Associated Press
article "Retailers pull 'Boys Are Stupid' products
" (MSNBC, 1/29/04) which has been picked up by over
300 newspapers and news outlets worldwide,
including most major American TV stations, radio
stations, and newspapers. Newspapers in Canada,
England, New Zealand, and even South Africa have
printed the article.
The Los Angeles Daily News wrote their own front
page story on it on Friday and over the past few
days I’ve been on Fox News and KABC TV in
various cities and on KTLA 5 here in LA. Today
Inside Edition is coming down to the KMPC studios
to shoot a piece on it, and Dr. Laura gave our
campaign a passionate endorsement on Friday,
declaring it to be a "Dr. Laura Call to
Action"--see www.DrLaura.com
 .
I've done and have scheduled about a dozen radio
appearances, including ones in Seattle, Phoenix,
Detroit, and Los Angeles, and on the Westwood One,
Radio America and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
networks. Our campaign has been trashed by Dom
Giordano on WPHT-AM in Philadelphia, "Monsters of
the Midday" on 104.1 in Tampa, Florida, Dennis
Roddy in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Boys can't
take a joke, throw rocks at them, 1/31/04), as well
as numerous others.
Given the media barrage I have decided that
instead of targeting a new company this week we
should instead use our resources to defend our
campaign in the media. Stories on our campaign have
appeared in most newspapers and I want His Side
listeners to write letters to the editors in
support of our campaign. The e-mail addresses for
the letters to the editor sections of 25 major
newspapers can be found at Contact
Editors about the His Side
Campaign
.
Be polite, but let the editors know exactly how you
feel. Feel free to forward me copies of what you
have sent to Glenn@HisSide.com.
(Editor: cc us
to, if you would!)
The best place for all information on the
campaign and its media coverage is Join Campaign
Against 'Boys are Stupid' Products. The most
comprehensive article on the campaign so far is MND
Newswire's Radio Campaign Knocks Anti-Boy Products
Out of 3,000 Retail Stores (1/29/04).
Thanks to all of you for the campaign's
success--all of you have made the world a little
bit better for our sons. Glenn Sacks from His
Side
1/29/04 Message from
Glenn Sacks: In an article about our campaign (see
Retailers pull 'Boys are Stupid' products at MSNBC)
and it was published today in nearly 100
newspapers, including the Atlanta Journal
Constitution, Toronto Sun, Seattle Post
Intelligencer, Dallas Morning News, Guardian,
Newsday, Miami Herald, Florida Sun-Sentinel,
Baltimore Sun, and the Fort Worth Star
Telegram.
Also see the MND Newswire story Radio Campaign
Knocks Anti-Boy Products out of 3,000 Retail
Stores.
I have made or have scheduled several radio and
TV appearances about the campaign--for details,
click on His Side
Campaign in the News.
1/18/04
Message from Glenn Sacks. Regarding our campaign
against the widely sold "Boys Are Stupid" products,
some interesting things may be happening with the
campaign this week, and all updates are available
at Join
His Side Campaign Against 'Boys are Stupid'
Products
.
Apparently the result of a meeting at Claire's
was a decision to request that all letter writers
and callers send Claire's their full names and
mailing addresses so that Claire's could snail mail
them a response. I speculate that Claire's did this
to gauge our true level of support. Perhaps they
believe that our campaign is really the work of a
few individuals with a bunch of different e-mail
addresses. Also, I believe they are stalling in the
hope that our campaign will lose steam.
As I said during my January 18 broadcast, I did
not expect Claire's to give in as quickly as our
three previous targets did, all of whom capitulated
before noon the day following our broadcast. Please
give them the information they requested so they
will see the broad support our campaign has
garnered. Also, urge your families, friends, and
colleagues to get involved.
The campaign against Claire's has received some
prominent endorsements and press coverage. and has
made local news in Cleveland, Washington state, and
others. There are major media outlets who have
expressed an interest in covering our campaign,
though if our action against Claire’s fails
they probably won't materialize.
There have been several columns written about
our campaign including: Brian Carnell's Clothing
Retailers Are Stupid -- Throw Glenn Sacks at
Them; Pete Jensen's Praise the Lord and Pass
the Iron; Richard L. Davis' Boys are
Stupid?; and Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy's
Christmas in a War Zone.
I enjoyed Carnell's headline but his carping
surprises me a bit. Men's activists have spent
years and decades decrying our culture's anti-male
bias and total insensitivity to the issues men and
boys face. Yet on the rare occasion when someone
actually does something about it, Carnell thinks
it's making something out of nothing. How many
times in the past 20 years have several major
companies been forced to remove a product and
apologize because it was offensive to males? Damned
few, I would guess. Carnell is correct that "Boys
are Stupid--Throw Rocks at Them" products are not
the biggest issue in the world to fight over.
However, they're sure a good place to start.
(Editor: Interesting response. If Carnell
berides the campaign because there are things to
write then why didn't he write about those bigger
things than spend his time on this subject. Seems
he must be "making something out of nothing"
according to him.)
Prominent endorsements; www.hisside.com/join_his_side_campaign2.htm#endorsements
Bloomingdale's
We were told that Bloomingdale's carries them, but
when my producer called their store in Los Angeles
the manager told him they used to carry the
products but "got an order from corporate" to take
all of it off the shelves about a week ago because
"some radio show was leading a campaign against
them."
Claire's
Claire's, a jewelry and accessories retailer
with stores in nearly a dozen countries, agreed to
drop all products bearing the anti-boy slogans from
its product line. According
to the Associated Press, Claire's company
spokeswoman Marisa Jacobs says Claire's has
"canceled all pending orders that bear any of the
slogans that people found offensive" in response to
the His Side radio campaign. According to AP,
Claire's Stores operates more than 2,800 stores in
North America, Europe and Japan. (Editor's
Note: Actually, it appears that Claire's plans
to sell what they have and not order any new stock.
Drop by a Claire's outlet in your local mall and
let the manager know what you think about them
continuing to spread negative messages by
continuing to sell their remaining stock.
Dapy's
Eliot Sekuler, the Vice President of Public
Relations for Universal Studios in Hollywood,
issued the following statement:
"Dapy's, a store operated
by our company, offers various lines of popular
apparel. It has recently come to Senior
Management's attention that we have inadvertently
offered some items from one of these lines that
contain offensive messages.
"The T-shirts have been
taken off the store's shelves immediately and will
no longer be sold at Dapy's or at any other
location owned by our company. Our company does not
condone any messages of intolerance to any group
within our society and we regret having allowed
this incident to occur."
Delia's
Delia’s has 60 stores in 22 states,
carried the "Boys are Stupid" products. My
producer spoke with them a couple of weeks ago to
gather information. Apparently Delia's realized
what was coming and decided to pull the products
without even being
targeted.
Dillard's
Dillard’s has 338 stores in 29 states
and has annual revenues exceeding $8.3 billion.
They carried "Boys are Stupid--Throw Rocks at Them"
T-shirts and pajamas and report they have pulled
them from their shelves.
.
Holt
Renfrew
A170 year-old Canadian chain with outlets in
most major Canadian cities, withdrew the products
and apologized after being contacted by some
Canadian supporters. They have 338 stores in
29 states and have annual revenues exceeding $8.3
billion.
Press
Stories
Why I Launched the Campaign Against 'Boys are
Stupid' Products (Los Angeles Daily News,
2/4/04).
Retailers pull 'Boys Are Stupid' products,
(Associated Press, appeared in over 300 newspapers
and news outlets).
Hateful words still hurt, even if they're just
on a T-shirt (Bozeman Daily Chronicle, 2/9/04)
In defense of boys (Newark Star-Ledger,
2/8/04)
Suddenly, boy-bashing is all the rage for
teenage girls (Edmonton Journal, 2/6/04)
Sauce for the goose (Red Deer Advocate,
2/6/04)
Boy bashing 101 (Calgary Herald, 2/6/04)
Goldman-Sacks controversy rocks David
&Goliath Inc. (Honolulu Star-Bulletin,
1/30/04)
Never underestimate customer's 'bad' taste
(Seattle Times, 2/3/04)
Don't encourage hurtful T-shirts (The Sentinel,
2/1/04)
Boys can't take a joke, throw rocks at them,
(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 1/31/04)
Stupid is as stupid does (Amarillo Globe News,
2/2/04)
Young males are victimized by fashion (Daily
Kent Stater, 2/2/04)
Battle of the Sexes (AlterNet, 2/3/04)
Valley man gets stores to pull 'Boys are stupid'
logo items (Los Angeles Daily News, 1/30/04)
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