NYC Radio Station To End 'Smackfest' Promotion (Women Slapping Other Women

[matcom]

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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Women in New York City will no longer be able to win concert tickets and other prizes from a radio station by violently slapping each other.

WQHT Hot-97 has agreed to end its "Smackfest" promotion over concerns raised by New York's state athletic commission.

From April of last year through January, Hot-97 sponsored a series of 24 slapping competitions. The hip-hop station offered cash prizes of as much as $5,000 to the winners. Pictures of the women striking each other were run on the station's Web site. The station has agreed to pay $240,000 under a settlement reached with the state.

WQHT is the same station that drew heavy criticism earlier this year when staffers played a parody song mocking victims of last year's tsunami.

http://www.wftv.com/news/4825655/detail.html

[GOPisEvil]

1. What? They actually got women to participate in this?

1. Stupid idea, very demeaning. Why not have men duking it out too, or does that not "fuel the fantasy"? :eyes:

2. What does it say about people willing to do things like this? I guess it says they're desperate for a better life, but damn...