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Tell Oxygen Media to cancel Snapped!

Contact Oxygen Media today to tell them to cancel Snapped, the new “true crime” television show that profiles women who killed their intimate partners.

Why?

• Because Snapped perpetuates harmful myths and misconceptions about women who kill their partners
• Because publicity about Snapped falsely suggests that women who are empowered are to be feared
• Because Snapped minimizes and exploits the devastating experiences of real battered women who have survived abuse, defended themselves, and are serving time in prisons
• Because instead of this trash, we want to see programming about real female empowerment

Here's what Oxygen says about Snapped at www.oxygen.com

While all of Snapped's subjects have murder in common, their backgrounds are exceptionally diverse. From millionaire brides with everything to lose to small-town sweethearts who should simply know better, their shocking but true stories turn common assumptions about crime and criminals upside down, conclusively proving that there’s often something far more sinister to the fairer sex than “sugar and spice and everything nice.”

“Identify the killer and get a free candle”?

As if the language describing the show isn’t bad enough, the website then trivializes the painful reality of such cases, making a game out of it with a gimmick that shows the faces of eight women and asks the viewer to guess which is the killer. Warning you that “Women killers look like you and me,” Oxygen invites you to get a free candle if you click the photo of the killer.

“Fresh”? or Foul?

Oxygen Media, co-founded by Oprah Winfrey and Geraldine Laybourne, claims that their television network “puts a fresh spin on television for women.” But through Snapped and other shows, they are presenting women and women’s issues in an archaic and offensive manner.

Tell Oxygen & Oprah that you object to their programming:

• Send Oxygen an email at feedback@oxygen.com
• Send Oxygen a letter
• Call Debbie Beece, President of Programming at Oxygen Media at (212) 651-2000 ext. 5018
• Send Oprah an email via her website

This action alert is a joint effort of the National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women (125 S. 9th Street, Suite 302, Philadelphia, PA 19107; (800) 903-0111 ext. 3) and Free Battered Women.