PETA Is At It Again
Our favorite group of nut jobs is at it again. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) got in hot water this week for featuring a picture of Michelle Obama in one of their ads without asking her permission. Michelle Obama was featured with three other women: Oprah, Tyra Banks, and Carrie Underwood.
Even though PETA hasn’t received permission to use Michelle’s image in their campaign, the group’s Prez, Ingrid Newkirk, doesn’t seem to see a problem in using it.
“The fact is that Michelle Obama has issued a statement indicating that she doesn’t wear fur, and the world should know that in PETA’s eyes, that makes her pretty fabulous.”
I love that Ingrid Newkirk just doesn’t give a shit what anybody else says. Maybe we should start an anti-PETA campaign and feature pictures of Newkirk chomping down on a big, juicy burger. The ads could be totally sexist, since PETA has no problem with objectifying the female body. And we wouldn’t get Newkirk’s permission to show her eating meat while clad in a skimpy bathing suit.
Oh, wait . . . we could get sued for that.
Don’t you just love how airbrushed the women in this ad look, in particular Tyra Banks? This doesn’t surprise me, given PETA’s penchant for fat shaming. Tyra Banks is almost nonexistant in that picture it’s so airbrushed. Way to try using images of black women to show that PETA cares about them . . . as long as they don’t weigh more than 90 pounds.
I’d offer more serious critiques of the picture if I were in a less snarky mood, but it’s Friday. Go PETA – way to keep it classy, ya’ll.
1Mrs.Mastro
wrote on 13 January 2010 at 11:24
Gross.
2freewomyn
wrote on 13 January 2010 at 20:57
What’s gross – Ingrid Newkirk’s mentality, or the image of her eating a burger in a bathing suit?