Oh PETA. You Never Fail to Horribly Disappoint
I tried to find an image for PETA and all I could find were pictures of naked women. Epic fail PETA.
I mean, seriously? I shouldn’t be surprised. As has been written about on this site again and again and again, PETA is about as misogynistic an organization as they get. But this is beyond the pale.
This proposed billboard and press release essentially embodies the fundamental argument against abortion, which is that the woman doesn’t matter. I can’t…I don’t even know what to say. I am fuming right now. If anyone still had any thoughts that PETA might be a feminist organization, or even a feminist-friendly organization, I think this should clearly show it is not. PETA, much like pro-life, thinks of women merely as cattle.
Actually, I guess for PETA cattle gets a step above women.
1KushielsMoon
wrote on 13 January 2010 at 23:36
As much as I HATE PETA, I’d much rather have a billboard with newly hatched chicks than the usual antichoice propaganda images.
2freewomyn
wrote on 14 January 2010 at 9:18
I’m with KushielsMoon. The chicks and pro-life messaging are a lot better than the other crap PETA comes up with.
3Manda
wrote on 14 January 2010 at 12:11
It’s not so much the images of the proposed ad, as the idea of the ad itself that upsets me. It’s the fact that PETA is pushing women to the side, once again, to further their agenda. It’s like they’re giving their seal of approval to attempts to the anti-choice movement, and women who need access to reproductive health care be damned.
4Carolyn Marie Fugit
wrote on 14 January 2010 at 16:08
How about when they wanted to launch a similar campaign (one “Pro-life? Go vegetarian” and another “Pro-choice? Choose vegetarian”) immediately following Dr. Tiller’s assassination. http://community.feministing.com/2009/06/feminist-fuck-you-peta.html
Ignoring for a moment PETA’s rampant sexism, they don’t even have a consistent message. Sometimes they’re vegan; sometimes vegetarian; usually neither. Don’t wear fur, spay and neuter, go vegetarian, but celebrate KFC for promising to kill chickens differently. One of their spay and neuter campaigns featured pictures of a woman wearing fur. One of their higher ups (I forget his name) said PETA isn’t actually dedicated to vegetarianism and is fine with meat-eating. Which, given they’re for ethical treatment, makes sense (in a Peter Singer sort of way). They’re not about a message at all. They’re about provoking. They think they have a message, but they really don’t.