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Academy & ABC Ban Postpartum Ad From Broadcasting During Oscars Because It’s “Too Graphic”

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Published on: 10th February 2020 at 11:15 AM
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The Academy Awards and broadcaster of the show ABC have banned a postpartum products ad from going to air during this year’s Oscars because it was deemed “too graphic”.

The company – Friday Mom – which caters to mothers of newborns said it was told by the Motion Picture Academy that the ad was “too graphic with partial nudity and product demonstration.” The 60 second spot depicts a mother trying to use a toilet after giving birth, while also having difficulty with a sanitary product.

In a post to its Instagram account, Frida Mom wrote the following:

“The ad you’re about to watch was rejected by ABC & the Oscars from airing during this year’s award show. It’s not “violent, political” or sexual in nature. Our ad is not “religious or lewd” and does not portray “guns or ammunition”. “Feminine hygiene & hemorrhoid relief” are also banned subjects. It’s just a new mom, home with her baby and her new body for the first time.

Yet it was rejected. And we wonder why new moms feel unprepared. So spray it forward and share this video with every new mom. She deserves to be prepared.”

The ban has caught the ire of plenty of mothers and non-mothers alike. US actress and talk show host Busy Philipps took to Instagram to air her frustrations to her two million followers.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Rd0r7BSen/?utm_source=ig_embed

“Partially because this is clearly an ad made by women who have been there and get it and partially because I DO believe so strongly that the more we can NORMALIZE A WOMAN’S BODILY EXPERIENCE IN MEDIA, the better off our culture and society will be,” she wrote on Instagram.

 

 

 

 

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