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| Topic Started: Thursday Jan 1 2009, 04:14 PM (5,233 Views) | |
| Ponz | Thursday Jan 1 2009, 04:14 PM Post #1 |
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Do you enjoy rape? We know, that's an outrageous question, because no one except for a few sexually deviant freaks would actually enjoy rape. So why is it that the writers suddenly think we'd enjoy watching Sami Brady Roberts interact with, and even worse, appear to trust her rapist? Why is she even allowed to be alone with the man? The Sami/Elvis rape storyline on Days has been mishandled since the very beginning. However in the past 2 weeks the situation has degraded into something completely unpalatable, and immediate action needs to be taken. With that in mind, we've come up with a "RAPE IS NOT ROMANCE" Campaign. Unlike our "normal" campaigns, this one has very little to do with Lumi, and everything to do with stopping Days from going down a path from which there would be no safe return. The key message that we want to get across to TPTB at Days and the magazines (SOD/SOW) is very simple: RAPE IS NOT ROMANCE! In order to get that message to TPTB, the soap press and the soap community in general, we need everyone's help. We've designed some banners (attached below) which we would like everyone to display in their siggies at other message boards, wherever possible (ie Fallin', NBC, Soap City). The same banners also make wonderful letterheads when inserted into a word processor. Because we want everyone to write often, we've designed additional letterheads (also attached below). We would love it if everyone could send at least as many letters as there are letterheads and banners. We know that more than a few of you have lots to say on the subject and won't have any problems composing letters, but just in case you're stuck, here are some key ideas/questions to focus on when writing: Rape is not romantic and should never be portrayed as such. What kind of message is the show trying to send to the survivors of rape when it has Sami trusting with her rapist? What kind of message is the show trying to send to its younger, more impressionable audience? Where is the social responsibility factor? Days proved they could do a socially responsible storyline with the "Green" wedding. Why can't they also do a socially responsible storyline about the effects of rape? The potential damage done to the character integrity of Sami Roberts, now a two-time rape survivor. Link to the original RINR campaign thread: http://secondchanceslumi.com/topic/6536156/ Edited by Ponz, Thursday Jan 1 2009, 04:29 PM.
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| Ponz | Thursday Jan 1 2009, 04:19 PM Post #2 |
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DOOL Executive Producer Address: Ken Corday c/o NBC Studios 3000 West Alameda Avenue Burbank, CA. 91523 Email: KenCorday@sony.com DOOL Co-Executive Producer Address: Gary Tomlin c/o NBC Studios 3000 W. Alameda Avenue Burbank, CA. 91523 DOOL Co-Head Writer Address: Dena Higley c/o NBC Studios 3000 W. Alameda Avenue Burbank, CA. 91523 DOOL Co-Head Writer Address: Christopher Whitesell c/o NBC Studios 3000 W. Alameda Avenue Burbank, CA. 91523 Senior Vice President, Current Series, NBC Entertainment Address: Bruce Evans NBC Television Network 100 Universal City Plaza, Building 1320 Universal City, CA 91608 Phone Numbers : DAYS Comment Line: (818)840-2067 DAYS Hotline in New York: (212) 664-2333 Publicity Number: (818)840-2810 NBC Switchboard: (818)840-4444 Corday Productions: (818)295-2821 Fax Number: (818)840-4968 E-MAILS Dena Higley (Head Writer) dhigley@dool.net Greg Meng (Exec. in charge of production) gregmeng@dool.net Daniela Mancinelli (Publicist) dmancinelli@dool.net Marc Graboff marc.graboff@nbcuni.com Jeff Zucker: jeff.zucker@nbcuni.com Teni Halburian (Publicist) teni_halburian@spe.sony.com Tracy St. Pierre (Coordinator - NBC Entertainment Publicity) tracy.stpierre@nbc.com Days - General Daysofourlives@nbc.com Janet DiLauro (SOW) DaysEditor@soapoperaweekly.com SOW SPWpubop@soapoperaweekly.com SOD SODsound@soapoperadigest.com Edited by Ponz, Thursday Jan 1 2009, 04:21 PM.
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| Lumifanatic | Thursday Jan 15 2009, 04:06 AM Post #3 |
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I've been emailing Dena Higley Letting her know exactly what i feel about what she's done to not only our beloved Characters But what she's done to Sami we all watched the same show and we all saw a women who was being held against her will and forced to make love to this rapist. we saw how Dena Higley Wrote Ej and sami to fall in love and have this incredible Magical Passionate Love affair, Not realizing that this was Forced we even know that johnny was conceived out of rape and not love... I'm glad this is being done it's about time we stood up and let them know that this is not right and that TPTB need to hear this.. and second Dena Higley needs to be fired and never to write for a soap again 
Edited by Lumifanatic, Thursday Jan 15 2009, 04:14 AM.
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| nancy | Friday Feb 27 2009, 09:05 PM Post #4 |
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i think it is sick too having a woman fall in love with her rapist |
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| Tinkerbelle | Wednesday Mar 4 2009, 02:02 AM Post #5 |
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Me too. I was wondering if there was going to be any more campaigns in the works. I would really like to help out and be a part of it if there is. |
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| Deleted User | Wednesday Mar 4 2009, 07:30 AM Post #6 |
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make that me three. we love to campaign the last three of us here! Dont we gals! |
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| Deleted User | Wednesday Mar 4 2009, 07:31 AM Post #7 |
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ok make that four, I know at least Lumifan, and tink. Hello nancy. I too hope we have more of this campaign and others. |
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| MonaLisa | Thursday Mar 5 2009, 12:01 PM Post #8 |
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This campaign has never stopped - that's why it's sticked to the top of the board. Keep writing to TPTB at Days, to NBC, to the magazines. It's something that we won't stop doing until the show addresses the issue properly. It doesn't have to be long - just remind them that rape victims don't love their rapists. |
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At my favorite site, Second Chances We celebrate all Lumi's glances Whether longing and sweet Or of passion and heat It's the greatest of all romances! | |
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| Erica | Monday Mar 30 2009, 06:32 PM Post #9 |
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Someone pointed out a great RINR banner that was being sported by the Safe fans. I got the creators permission to use it. Watch it all, as it's very eye opening. With the creative rewriting of Sami's and EJ's history, it's time to remind tiic that even if they have forgotten, we have not. |
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| Tinkerbelle | Monday Apr 6 2009, 05:27 PM Post #10 |
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I will definitely continue to write to tptb. I am not ever going to forget or accept it. |
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| angel4life | Saturday Aug 15 2009, 08:49 PM Post #11 |
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I'm new on this site, and I agree. Rape is not love. I cannot believe the writers would be foolish to sell this kind of rapemance. A victim and a rapist do not mix for romance, it is beyond disgusting and is showing a horrible example for rape victims out there. |
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| CanuckDaysfan | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 05:23 PM Post #12 |
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Interesting thread over at SON: http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/31434-misogyny-the-media/ |
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| Erica | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 07:01 PM Post #13 |
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Excellent thread. I think I'm going to print that out and send it in to tiic with some nice bolding on the Days comment. |
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| KimberlyAnn | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 08:10 PM Post #14 |
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thanks for the link!! |
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| nancy | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 08:38 PM Post #15 |
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but they didn't day anything about Ej & sami. having a woman fall in love with her rapist would be worst of all. |
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| CanuckDaysfan | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 08:41 PM Post #16 |
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Elvis & Sami are mentioned in a reply or two there. |
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| vhaley | Tuesday Aug 18 2009, 08:58 PM Post #17 |
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wow. I agree with Erica-TPTB need to see this!! Especially the DOOL part! Thanks for the link! |
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| hfce | Friday Aug 21 2009, 09:05 AM Post #18 |
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That was a good read. To bad the soap writers will ignore it. 
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| tje8375 | Friday Aug 21 2009, 03:43 PM Post #19 |
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We just need to keep pushing the message and keep it on the forefront of everyone's minds. |
  Thank you Days for bringing back Bryan Dattilo as Lucas Horton! His fans are ecstatic about his return! | |
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| luvinglumi | Friday Aug 21 2009, 03:52 PM Post #20 |
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IF TIIC ever decide to have Sami and the rapist together then I believe nothing will hold the message from going everywhere again. |
 There’s someone I’ve been missing I think that they could be The better half of me They’re in the wrong place trying to make it right But I’m tired of justifying So I say ... Come home Cause I’ve been waiting for you | |
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| tje8375 | Wednesday Aug 26 2009, 02:46 AM Post #21 |
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I could not believe the dribble I saw last night on the boards. One person said that Sami had a choice to be raped. I thought my eyes were deceiving me. So I just had to reply. Some people are just so clueless. |
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Thank you Days for bringing back Bryan Dattilo as Lucas Horton! His fans are ecstatic about his return! | |
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| Ponz | Tuesday Sep 29 2009, 09:00 PM Post #22 |
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Hollywood has once again disgraced itself on this issue. Background: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/2009/09/28/polanski_arrest/index.html Petition against the "astonishing" arrest of a child rapist: http://www.indiewire.com/article/over_100_in_film_community_sign_polanski_petition/P0/ Whoopi Goldberg on the difference between "rape" and "rape-rape": http://www.mediaite.com/online/whoopi-goldberg-on-polanski-crime-it-wasnt-rape-rape/ |
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| MonaLisa | Wednesday Sep 30 2009, 04:36 AM Post #23 |
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What a truly disgusting thing to watch, that Whoopi Goldberg clip. "Now, I wouldn't want my fourteen-year-old to have sex, but..." Hello? She didn't have sex, she was drugged and raped! And why the heck would the supposed lack of responsibility from the mother, or the way teenage girls are shown in the media today, make Polanski any less of a rapist? Rape is rape is rape. And if the victim has become a survivor and managed to go on with her life, that doesn't make what was done to her any less of a crime. |
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At my favorite site, Second Chances We celebrate all Lumi's glances Whether longing and sweet Or of passion and heat It's the greatest of all romances! | |
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| Kazz | Wednesday Sep 30 2009, 10:51 AM Post #24 |
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It was rape in every sense. By law, the child was too young to have had "consentual" sex even if she wasn't drugged. Since she was drugged, it wasn't "consentual" in any meaning of the word. Roman Polanski took the child's ability to choose away from her the same as any other rapist uses force to do it. There needs to be a nationwide outreach to educate the entire public on what rape really is, since clearly so many "influential" (and ignorant) adults are baffled by it. At any rate, ignorance of the law is still no excuse... neither is the fact the he claims "it just happened" and wasn't planned on his part... whatever... I have no sympathy for him at all.
Edited by Kazz, Wednesday Sep 30 2009, 10:53 AM.
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| aimees76 | Wednesday Sep 30 2009, 12:15 PM Post #25 |
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I just don't even have any words. How appalling. |
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