PSA - PRNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser Your Daily PR Release Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 18:57:38 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Two 49ers Deny Making the ‘It Gets Better’ PSA in Which They Appear The San Francisco 49ers, who happen to be playing in a certain football game this Sunday, earned a bit of bad press earlier in the week after cornerback Chris Culliver decided to let the world know that he “[doesn't] do the gay guys, man” and that any pro football players who happen to be gay should probably stay in the closet because the whole deal just totally weirds him out, girl. Trust!

Culliver then issued what may be the least effective damage control statement ever, saying that “The derogatory comments I made yesterday were a reflection of thoughts in my head, but they are not how I feel.”

You’d think the clip below–recorded as part of Dan Savage‘s “It Gets Better” anti-bullying PSA campaign for gay and lesbian youth–might help nip that problem in the bud, right?

No such luck: yesterday two of the very players who appear in the video denied ever making it.

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]]> Patrick Coffee http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/two-49ers-deny-making-the-it-gets-better-psa-in-which-they-appear_b56454#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/two-49ers-deny-making-the-it-gets-better-psa-in-which-they-appear_b56454 http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/?p=56454 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:04:16 +0000 Female Scientists Parody Sexist ‘Science: It’s A Girl Thing’ PSA In case you don’t remember that laughably sexist and undeniably offensive “Science: It’s A Girl Thing” video we told you about over the summer, here’s a quick refresher: Females account for 45 percent of all PhD’s earned in Europe, but only (roughly) a third of researchers–so the EU decided to create a three-year campaign targeted at girls aged 13 to 17 in order to make science seem “cool”, thereby encouraging them to consider careers in the field.

A progressive and legitimately respectable plan, right? Unfortunately, the video itself was anything but. Take a look at the original in all its pink, sparkly glory:

Now, a group of real, living, breathing female PhD candidates in neuropsychology at the University of Bristol (who don’t actually spend all day pouring colorful liquid form one beaker into another while male scientists gawk at them) decided to channel their outrage at having their serious career paths represented by lipstick and stillettos into a hilarious parody of the EU’s lambasted PSA.

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]]> Elizabeth S. Mitchell http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/female-scientists-parody-sexist-science-its-a-girl-thing-psa_b52171#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/female-scientists-parody-sexist-science-its-a-girl-thing-psa_b52171 http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/?p=52171 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:49:21 +0000