If you are a woman or if you have a mother, daughter, wife or sister you should be appalled by DirecTV’s decision to use Charlie Sheen in their latest advertising campaign

It’s hard to imagine how someone at DirecTV thought that hiring Charlie Sheen as their spokesperson would be a good idea yet there he is, in a hot tub on TV.

With everything that’s happened over the past few weeks with Rush Limbaugh’s blatant misogyny, one might think that DirecTV would have had second thoughts about airing these commercials. After watching the commercials it’s clear they didn’t really have a first thought either.

Rush Limbaugh called a woman a “slut” and started hemorrhaging advertisers. Charlie Sheen has actually SHOT a woman and has been accused of terrorizing another so bad that she was forced to lock herself in a closet. Those are the things we know about. Not to mention the flagrant drug and alcohol abuse and general lack of respect for anyone besides himself.

Yes, this is who DirectTV has chosen as the face of their product.

• 1990: Sheen accidentally shoots then-fiancée Kelly Preston in the arm. As flesh wounds have a funny way of killing the mood, the engagement is called off shortly thereafter. It’s during this same year that he enters rehab for the first time to treat an alcohol addiction.
• 1995: Two months after marrying model Donna Peele, Sheen was sued by a UCLA student who claimed he struck her in the head back in 1994 after she refused him sex. The case was settled out of court.
• 1997: Sheen pleads no contest to battery charges brought by former girlfriend, model-actress Brittany Ashland, who claims Sheen threw her onto his kitchen floor and split her lip. He earned a year’s suspended sentence, two years’ probation and a $2,800 fine.
• 2009: Sheen is arrested on felony menacing charges and spends Christmas in a Colorado jail after wife Brooke Mueller tells cops the actor threatened her with a knife. He was released on bail.
• Aug. 2, 2010: Sheen pleads guilty to misdemeanor third-degree assault for his Christmas attack on Mueller. He was ordered to spend 30 days in rehab, undergo domestic abuse counseling and was placed on probation.
• Oct. 26, 2010: Sheen is taken to the hospital after cops are called for a disturbance in his room at New York’s Plaza Hotel. He was with porn star Capri Anderson at the time, who later went public with her story, claiming Sheen got physical with her and that she was forced to hide in a closet. Sheen was hospitalized after the incident, though his rep chalked it up to “an allergic reaction to some medication.” Anderson went on to threaten Sheen with a lawsuit alleging battery and false imprisonment, but no charges were ever filed, and rumors circulated that the duo ended up settling out of court.

Fortunately for Sheen he’ll be able to go on abusing women and destroying hotel rooms and generally wreaking havoc. Thanks to DirecTV he’ll be able to afford to continue to settle the cases out of court and avoid any sort of real justice.

Part of me wishes I had DirecTV just so I could cancel it and tell them what I thought of their choice to perpetuate the careers of men who have continually proven that they have no respect for women and that violence towards them is acceptable.