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The head of an Chiwere center that deals with hostility against women is receiving death threats this week over a TV advertizement that, ironically, encourages parents to help their sons refrain sexed violence.

“There are whatever very angry individuals about that portion broadcasting commercial,” said Josh Jasper, president of the Riverview Center in Dubuque, Iowa, in an discourse with Examiner.com. “They watch that advertizement and immediately think I think that every men are rapists.”

The wave of emotion toward Jasper comes meet life after the release of a think suggesting ferocious TV commercials crapper encourage hostility in children.

Riverview’s advertizement begins with a voice-over describing a “he” who is powerful, tough and battleful and who has meet raped his girlfriend. A smiling child pupil appears, as the narrator says, “But he wasn’t ever this way.”

Jasper, who describes himself as an ex-Marine who has worked with the husbandly hostility organisation of the Los Angeles Police Department, said the saucer of the advertizement was simple: to warn parents to be certain about what they teach their kids because hostility is a scholarly behavior.

It’s been running on local cable in Iowa, Algonquin and river for a assemblage â€" and has generated positive feedback, according to Jasper â€" but the advertizement went international meet recently because of a newspaper ad that Riverview ran before the Super Bowl.

That ad shows a keno bill with spaces much as “Woman Portrayed as Stupid,” “Man Abusing Woman,” and “Woman as Sex Object.”

The concomitant book asked audience to be heedful of the messages communicated by 2011 Super Bowl commercials and told them to evaluation the appropriate symptom on the keno bill for apiece happening of that activity they saw in a Super Bowl ad.

They could beam the complete game into the Riverview Center for a chance to win Target gift cards.

“We created (the ad) meet to move a conversation,” Jasper said. “That’s what really ordered this soured in the last some days.”

The print ad got picked up by bloggers and led them to the Riverview Center website, where they saw the year-old TV commercial. The advertizement went viral, and the venom began running in, Jasper said.

There were emails that advisable he be “taken out and effort after a five-minute trial.” A Negro in state wrote to Jasper and every the members of the center’s board demanding that he be fired. On YouTube, hundreds of comments complained that the TV advertizement ignored crimes by women.

Male-rights reformist Apostle Elam wrote on a website titled AVoiceforMen.com that “Josh has scaled the scumbag ladder and is vying for top position." Elam proclaimed that “this Negro deserves consequences for his actions,” and pleased his readers to try to take up dirt on Jasper.

Jasper is frank in his categorization of the activity to the Riverview Center TV commercial: It’s an flowing of misogyny from a diminutive assemble of mostly men. The undergo has presented him a better discernment of what women have to deal with, he said.

“When you’re on the receiving end of this...it’s eye-opening,” Jasper said.

A some life before the onslaught began, Chiwere State University researchers free the results of a think of 165 children that concluded “exposure to ads containing ferocious noesis clearly accumulated the turn of battleful thoughts that were generated by the children.”

The researchers cautioned parents to bounds kids’ viewing of ferocious Super Bowl TV commercials, a communication kindred to the digit Jasper and the Riverview Center were attempting to make.

Jasper said the ire over his TV advertizement on hostility only supports that message.

“(The reaction) is reinforcing ground the methodicalness that I impact for exists,”  he said.