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Prominent Endorsements of His Side
Campaign...
"I want to join hands with my fellow talk show host Glenn
Sacks...I back his campaign against 'Boys are Stupid' shirts...[the shirts] are
symptomatic of a much larger problem...the denigration of males."
--Dr. Laura
Schlessinger, nationally syndicated radio talk
show host
"As the mother of a boy, I owe Glenn a big thank
you for what he's done."
- Jenn Jordan, co-host of the Jeff and Jenn
Morning Show on WKRQ FM 102 in Cincinnati
"[The shirts] are really offensive and I'm glad
Glenn stood up and did something about it."
- Mr. KABC, host of the Los Angeles radio talk
show Ask Mr. KABC
"The shirts are terrible and are part of a much
larger problem in our society--the problem of
devaluing males."
- Al Rantel, host of The Al Rantel Show
on KABC
"The protest campaign launched by radio talk
host Glenn Sacks... [is a good example] of how
hate mongering is a lucrative business and the
best remedy is to yank away the financial
incentive."
- Fox News columnist Wendy McElroy
"I'm angry about these shirts...I wish Glenn
well--I thinks he's got a real point here."
- Joe Crummey, KABC talk show host
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Final Update, March 4, 2004
As I said during my debate with Todd Goldman on CNBC last week,
and as I discussed on the show last night, we can't seem to find
any retail stores which still carry the "Boys are Stupid"
products. When I said this on CNBC Todd Goldman told me "you
need to get out more," which is probably true, but doesn't apply
in this case. There are many stores which have pulled the
products as a result of the media storm, even though we never
targeted them specifically. We certainly did what we set out to
do and at this point we are suspending the campaign. Thanks to
all of you who supported us and helped make the campaign's
phenomenal success possible.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Update: February 16, 2004
As I mentioned on the show, we did not announce a new target for
our campaign against "Boys are Stupid" products because we're
having a difficult a time finding retail outlets which still
carry them.
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."
Also, Holt Renfrew, a 170 year-old Canadian chain with outlets
in most major Canadian cities, withdrew the products and
apologized after being contacted by some Canadian His Side
supporters. Delia’s, which carried the "Boys are Stupid"
products and has 60 stores in 22 states, told the media a couple
weeks ago that they would no longer carry the products.
If anybody knows of other major
stores which are still carrying the products please let us know
at Glenn@HisSide.com.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Round 5: Dillard's
Tom Patterson, Dillard's
Vice President Director of Stores, sent out letters to His
Side listeners on February 9 stating:
"Thank you for advising us
about the T-Shirts. We have instructed our stores to remove
them from the sales floor. The shirts will no longer be
offered for sale."
Dillard's carries T-shirts
which say "Boys are Stupid--Throw Rocks at Them."
They have 338 stores in 29
states and have annual revenues exceeding $8.3 billion. Since
our campaign began on December 14, "Boys are Stupid" products
have been knocked out of 3,345 retail outlets in 10 countries.
Thanks again to all who supported our campaign.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Round 4: Claire's
To All His Side Listeners:
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.
To learn more, see
Retailers pull 'Boys Are Stupid' products
(MSNBC, 1/29/04) and
Radio Campaign Knocks Anti-Boy Products Out of 3,000
Retail Stores (MensNewsDaily.com,
1/29/04).
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Round 3: Universal Studios
To All His Side Listeners:
Eliot Sekuler, the Vice President of Public Relations
for Universal Studios in Hollywood,
issued the following statement in
response to the His Side campaign:
"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."
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Round 2: Tilly's
To All His Side Listeners:
Tilly's clothing store agreed to
remove the
"Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at
Them" T-shirts within half a day
of the launch of our campaign
against them on the January 4
broadcast of
His Side.
See the MND NEWSWIRE story "LA
Chain Agrees to Pull 'Boys are
Stupid' T-Shirts After Storm of
Protest from His Side Listeners"
for details.
While I appreciate all of your
support for our campaign, I'm asking
all listeners to please refrain from
further calling and writing Tilly's.
They have done the right thing by
removing the shirts, and further
letters and calls to them are
neither needed nor desirable.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
Round 1: Bon-Macy's
To All His Side Listeners,
Bon Macy's has caved in after
receiving hundreds of angry letters
and calls protesting its
"Boys Are Stupid, Throw Rocks at
Them" T-shirts. See the MND
NEWSWIRE story "Bon-Macy's
Pulls Anti-Boy Shirts as His Side
Listeners Flood Store with Calls,
E-Mails" for details.
I was surprised and pleased to see
so many people join in this
campaign--I must have received over
100 copies of letters. It's
heartening to see men stand up for
themselves for a change, and it's
equally encouraging to see so many
women go to bat for us.
Thanks again to all who
participated.
Best Wishes,
Glenn Sacks
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'Boys are Stupid' Shirts Worn in our Schools
Today boys have
fallen seriously behind girls at all K-12
levels. By high school the typical boy is a year
and a half behind the typical girl in reading
and writing. Girls get better grades than boys
and boys are far more likely than girls to drop
out of school or to be disciplined, suspended,
held back, or expelled. Boys are four times as
likely to receive a diagnosis of
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder as
girls, and the vast majority of
learning-disabled students are boys.
Boys are less likely to graduate high school, go
to college, or graduate college than girls.
Allowing girls to
wear "Boys
Are Stupid" shirts rubs salt in the
wound--why are administrators and teachers
permitting it?
To learn
more about the boy crisis in education, see
Glenn's columns
"Boys:
The New Underclass in American Schools,"
(Los Angeles Daily Journal, San Francisco Daily
Journal, 4/15/02),
"The 'Boy Parent Dilemma'" (Los
Angeles Daily News, 9/6/02,
Pasadena Star-News & Affiliated Papers,
9/12/02), and
"Why
Males Don't Go to College"
(She
Thinks, 11/13/02), and
Mysterious Decline-Where Are the Men on Campus?
(Abuse
Your Illusions: The Disinformation Guide to
Media Mirages and Establishment Lies, May,
2003) (Co-authored with Phil Cook).
For a more
in-depth treatment of the subject, see
Christina Hoff Sommers' "The
War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism is
Harming our Young Men" |
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