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.
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As much as I HATE PETA, I’d much rather have a billboard with newly hatched chicks than the usual antichoice propaganda images.
I’m with KushielsMoon. The chicks and pro-life messaging are a lot better than the other crap PETA comes up with.
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.
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.
Lets see those PETA knuckleheads pull off one of their anti-fur protests in down town ANCHORAGE ALASKA in the middle of winter and see how blue they get I mean PETA are a bunch of stupid annoying wackos